# What's good for the goose? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 21, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019 "2000-09-21T17:29:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Stimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Stimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stimpy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/1 "2000-09-21T17:29:25Z")
“What’s good for the goose is good for the gander” What IS good for the goose? Mine’s sick, and I fear for my gander. I read this poem once (I couldn’t read it twice!) and it’s got me worried #:- ( I had a gander at this And this is what I think What’s good for the goose Would make a blind man blink ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/2 "2000-09-21T17:43:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stimpy \* > **What IS good for the goose?** Orange sauce. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/3 "2000-09-21T18:01:58Z")
I always thought the expression WAS “What’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.” ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/4 "2000-09-21T19:07:48Z")
Thanks, CKDextHavn, That’s what I thought it was too. By the way, would someone please tell Aunt Rhodie, that the old gray goose is dead? ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/5 "2000-09-21T19:12:58Z")
In the rhyme: Goosie goosie gander Where dost thou wander? Upstairs and downstairs And in my lady’s chamber. How do you choose which words to mispronounce? ---
**Author:** ![panamajack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/47e85d/32.png) [@panamajack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panamajack)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/6 "2000-09-21T19:53:48Z")
Hey, Enright3, how did that ol’ gray goose die, anyway? I heard the goslings are pretty broken up about it. And if you think this thread’s going to turn into a debate about whether it’s ‘sauce’ or ‘good’, you’ve got another thin coming! I think sauce is what’s good, but only if your goose is cooked. ---
**Author:** ![Stimpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/779978/32.png) [@Stimpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stimpy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/7 "2000-09-21T20:03:40Z")
I’m sorry but it IS good… isn’t it? Or is this one of those pond gets in the way thingyme wotsits? Septics always messing where they shouldn’t. Bringing it neatly onto ducks. * * * Chinese whispers - don’t shout, I heard ya ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/8 "2000-09-21T21:45:00Z")
I’ve heard that “shit through a goose” goes pretty fast. Anyone have any experience with this? Maybe that’s how fast Goose Gossage could pitch? Hey, panamajack, you don’t suppose that the old gray goose died from getting… you know… goosed? Mother Goose, are you out there? There was an old lady who lived in a shoe, She had so many children, her uterus fell out. Finally, let’s not forget the Spruce Goose [http://www.sprucegoose.org/vids/HK-1vid.ram](http://www.sprucegoose.org/vids/HK-1vid.ram) ---
**Author:** ![Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Goose)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/9 "2000-09-21T21:50:08Z")
Leave me alone. ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/10 "2000-09-21T22:09:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Stimpy \* > **I’m sorry but it IS good… isn’t it? Or is this one of those pond gets in the way thingyme wotsits? Septics always messing where they shouldn’t. Bringing it neatly onto ducks.** I’ve always heard “sauce.” I think the implication (allusion?) is that you don’t prepare a different sauce for your goose dinner based on the bird’s gender. Just my 2 cents. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/11 "2000-09-22T05:10:15Z")
To paraphrase the Everly Brothers: > [@](#): > > _The thread wasn’t so hot, it didn’t have much of a plot > We fell asleep, our goose is cooked, our reputation is shot._ ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-good-for-the-goose/34019/12 "2000-09-22T13:42:14Z")
OK, fun’s fun. But it’s time to close this thread. I left it open yesterday because, because, well because I forgot to close it. But absent a General Question, closed it is.