Maths and vegetables 404

Here we go, a maths question for you!
Use vegetables and fruit to make minus 2.

OK, I've got it, here's what to do.
First subtract banana from two, then add 7 to your favourite fruit.

There, Voila! The answer is... Wrong?
Let's try this again subtracting from 1.

1 minus pear makes potato, wait, what?
I thought it made apple, tomato and broth.

Oh, wait, by broth I meant pear,
that plus 2 minus cauliflower squared.

Oh boy, someone help get me out of this mess!
I can't calculate 3 minus cress.

This whole thing is dumb,
how could it make sense?

And to think I tried to work it out in my head.

Pass me some paper, hand me a pen.
Now this'll be easy, long division always ends!

Cabbage plus two, add rhubarb and peas, please
give me a minute, to divide it by 3.

Subtract it from mango,
of course, this makes sense!

Time to carry it through to the end.


How has this taken me more than a day?
Surely it's easy, I'm an orange away!

5 more hours are history,
the long division is more than a mystery.

154 pages strong, I long, for division that's short.
But I still have to finish this problem, of course!

But wait, what's this? The end at long last?
A cucumber away, could I add on some grass?

Is it possible, that I made a mistake?
I don't care anymore, surely it is too late when you
hit the page number 404.

I hate this!
This question is dumb! I rip up the pages one by one,
and throw them in the fire while writing this song.

Can't believe I bothered,
what a waste of my time.
I go to the kitchen and make up a line

Of the fruit and veg I happen to own.
I notice, of course, it must be a lime!

We all know a lime times 9 equals three smaller limes!

So I gather my paper,
Pick up my pen.

Start back on the madness all over again.

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I was walking home from work the other day and thought back to my maths struggles in school (I wasn't bad at Maths at all, I mean, I did Additional Maths, but it often resulted in drenching my Maths homework in tears), and the confusion at problems involving fruit and vegetables.

So...Yeah, this was born. it was so fun to write but I'm not sure anymore.