# "i lik the bred" Sam Garland, posting as Reddit's Poem_for_your_sprog, wrote a four-line poem about a cow licking bakery goods inside an 18th-century fortress recreation during an October 2016 AskReddit thread on health inspector violations. A Tumblr screenshot of the quatrain collected more than 127,000 notes within three months, and by January 2017 parodies, fan artwork and a SoundCloud song in doggospeak were borrowing its deliberately misspelled lines. ## Origin On October 25, 2016, a now-deleted Redditor opened an r/AskReddit thread asking health inspectors for the worst code violations they had seen on the job. Redditor Chamale answered with a story about his stepfather, a baker at an authentic 18th-century recreation of a New French fortress, where the visiting inspector spotted a cow wandering the grounds and licking all the bread[2]. Sam Garland, writing under the Reddit handle Poem_for_your_sprog, replied with the "i lik the bred" quatrain the same day, and the comment collected over 15,000 points before archiving[3]. - **Platform:** Reddit / Tumblr (viral spread) - **Creator:** Sam Garland (Reddit: Poem_for_your_sprog) - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview Garland's gimmick on the Poem_for_your_sprog account is writing rhyming replies to AskReddit stories, and "i lik the bred" takes that habit to an absurd extreme. The quatrain reads like a toddler cow narrating its own crime in baby talk, with vowel swaps and dropped letters meant to sound bovine[2]. Readers adopted the broken spelling template within hours, writing their own four-line "lik" poems about other animals licking other things[3]. Parodies swapped the cow for cats and dogs, and swapped the bread for cats themselves[1]. Fan artworks drew the cow in colored pencil and MS Paint, and a SoundCloud track by Hindulaatti set the lines to melody in "doggospeak," the earnest misspelled voice from the doge family of memes[5]. A broader Tumblr tag collected months of these variants under "lik bred"[6]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is "i lik the bred"? It is a short four-line poem by British writer Sam Garland (Reddit's Poem_for_your_sprog) narrated by a cow in deliberately misspelled baby talk, written as a reply to an AskReddit story about a cow licking bread inside an 18th-century fortress recreation[3]. ### Where did "i lik the bred" come from? Garland posted it on October 25, 2016 as a Reddit comment under Chamale's health-inspector story on r/AskReddit[2]. ### What does "i lik the bred" mean? The misspellings parody a toddler-cow voice, and the piece reads as an unrepentant confession from a cow caught licking bakery bread[3]. Later Tumblr parodies swapped the cow and the bread for other animals and foods[4]. ### How do you use "i lik the bred"? Common convention is to write a four-line rhyming poem in the same misspelled voice, often narrated by an animal describing something it enjoys licking or eating, as seen in Sashayed's cat-licking variant[4] and the Hindulaatti doggospeak song[5]. ### Is "i lik the bred" still popular? The poem is treated as a classic of Reddit and Tumblr poetry circles; a Tumblr screenshot by phantomrose96 passed 127,000 notes within three months of the original 2016 post[1], and parody variants were still circulating into 2017[4]. ## References 1. [https://phantomrose96.tumblr.com/post/152302167617]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/598qrb/health_inspectors_of_reddit_whats_the_worst/d96si4d/?context=3]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-lik-the-bred]() 4. [https://sashayed.tumblr.com/post/156047072240/sashayed-sashayed-lierdumoa-sashayed]() 5. [https://soundcloud.com/hindulaatti/cowdg]() 6. [https://www.tumblr.com/search/lik+bred]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/i-lik-the-bred Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library