A cheerful bit of nonsense logic: if the world were apple pie and the sea were ink, what would we drink? It's a riddle dressed as a rhyme, and it rewards a puzzled pause before the last line.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
If all the world were apple pie,
And all the sea were ink,
And all the trees were bread and cheese,
What should we have for drink?
About this rhyme
Text confirms three swaps in this order: world = apple pie, sea = ink, trees = bread and cheese.
A nonsense riddle built on impossible swaps: a world made of apple pie, a sea of ink, trees made of bread and cheese. It ends on a genuine question, which makes it different every time it is read.
Ask what your child would actually drink, if the sea really were ink.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition