Have a Piece of Barley-O

DESCRIPTION: "Have a piece of barley-o, Barley-o, barley-o, Have a piece of barley-o, Fresh sugary candy."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1975 (Brady-AllInAllIn)
KEYWORDS: food
FOUND IN: Ireland
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Brady-AllInAllIn, p. 77, "(Have a piece of barley-o)" (1 text)
Roud #38141
NOTES [80 words]: "Barley-sugar is a transparent, brittle candy, usually in twisted-stick form, still sold in England. It was formerly made by boiling cane sugar in a concoction of barley" (The Annotated Alice: The Definitive Edition by Lewis Carroll with Introduction and Notes by Martin Gardner, W. W. Norton, 2000, p. 90, n. 2. Barley-guar is referred to in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter IX, "The Mock Turtle's Story," near the beginning of the chapter, in the third paragraph). - RBW
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