My mum and I were talking the other day and she told me about this great saying she heard from my grandpa.
He once told her “I don’t chew my cabbage twice.”
Instantly it made sense within the context of what we were talking about. She explained to me that her brother once asked her why she chose not to re-engage in a certain circumstance and she passed it on to him.
“I don’t chew my cabbage twice.”
Wisdom passed on from my long gone Irish grandfather who may have picked it up during his boyhood in Cork, Ireland. Maybe he picked it up during his four years as a tail gunner in RAF Lancaster and Halifax bombers during WWII or maybe he picked it up in Reader’s Digest…who knows.
It is profound in its simplicity…
“I don’t chew my cabbage twice.”
I like that.
Harnessing Chaos 
Note the actual phrase “I don’t boil my cabbage twice” was from Irish folklore.
I don’t chew my cabbage twice was a joke line from from the Andy Griffith show,
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Not really true about the Andy Griffith show.. it was said on the show, yes.. but Harold Lloyd said it in the 1936 film “The Milky Way” long before Ernest T. Bass said it on the Andy Griffith show~
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