When the matzo balls were cooked, Singer placed them in a bowl with chunks of dark pulled goose meat, the vegetables and a few ladles of amber broth.
As the day wore on, 14 pastry judges examined the 29 exotic confections, some nearly five feet high, which included an elaborate dark chocolate goose, a silver spun-sugar garden shovel and a white chocolate Eiffel Tower.
Swans and over-wintering dark-bellied Brent geese nudge around among the reeds and fringes of the river.
I particularly liked the picture of Mother Goose in dark glasses and Liz Taylor headscarf signing autographs at the stage door.
There, clad in a gray military-style tunic and dark glasses, he accompanied goose-stepping guards in laying wreaths at Lenin's mausoleum and the tomb of the unknown soldier.
The one we visited, at the MarketFair mall in Princeton, N.J., was cold enough to raise goose flesh, dark enough to make us feel as if we were spelunking and noisy enough to bring to mind academic studies on cacophony as torture.
The flesh of meat geese is dark-coloured and high in protein, but they deposit fat subcutaneously, although this fat contains mostly monounsaturated fatty acids.
Other long-distance travelers, like pigeons and geese, also have mostly dark meat.
Even the Dark Ages had their own Mother Goose.
