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If you are a Filipino worth your sun and stars, you better make sure you have taught your children/grandchildren our folk song “Bahay Kubo.” Shame on you if all they know is “Eensy Weensy Spider!”
“Bahay Kubo” is a folk song popularized during the period of the American Thomasites (early 1900s), and I don’t think there’s Pinoy who can’t sing it. But did you ever notice that in its roll call of the popular Philippine vegetables, the ampalaya is not included? Neither in the original nor in the nosebleed version that my daughter-in-law BingBing e-mailed me! No wonder jokesters say it got so bitter and wrinkled!
