Title: Green Eggs and Ham

Author: Dr. Seuss

Published: 1960

Intro: The title of Green Eggs and Ham is a sort of pun. In the United States, "green eggs and ham" is a breakfast menu item in which normal eggs are cooked with spinach or some other green vegetable, and served with normal ham. Dr. Seuss's conceit was to imagine that the phrase describes naturally green eggs (that is, with green yolks) accompanied by green ham.