En Lin Wei wrote:

> Charles Moyer wrote:
>
> >If we Pound them all down we do ourselves a great disservice.
> >     That Monty Python "stick" is an old chestnut. The way I heard it many
> >years ago before Monty goes something like this;
> >     "The socialist is haranguing the crowd. He bellows, "After the
> >revolution we'll all eat steak and mushrooms".
> >     A fellow in the back of the crowd meekly speaks up, "But I don't like
> >mushrooms."
> >     The Socialist now worked up to a fever pitch answers, "After the
> >revolution we'll all eat steak and mushrooms, and we'll like steak and
> >mushrooms."
>
> I never heard this one, though it would be great critcism of the those who
> follow the Marxist-Leninist vanguard theory of socialism, which I oppose.

As I heard the joke it was somewhat more concise.

    "Come the Revolution, we will all have strawberries and cream."
    "I don't *like* strawberries and cream."
    "Come the Revolution, we will *all* like strawberries and cream."

And for the record, the person who told it to me was a communist, telling the
joke on herself.

Carrol