Numbah Nine day of Christmas, my tutu give to me...

Nine pound of poi,

eight ukulele, seven shrimp a-swimmin', seex hula lesson,

five beeg fat peeg,

foah flowah let, tree dry squid, two coconut,

An' one mynah bird in one papaya tree.

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Poi is a Hawaiian word for the primary Polynesian staple food made from the corm of the taro plant (known in Hawaiian as kalo). Poi is produced by mashing the cooked corm (baked or steamed) to a highly viscous fluid. Water is added during mashing and again just before eating, to achieve a desired consistency, which can range from liquid to dough-like (poi can be known as two-finger or three-finger, alluding to how many fingers you would have to use to eat it, depending on its consistency).

The bowl of poi was considered so important and a sacred part of daily Hawaiian life that whenever a bowl of poi was uncovered at the family dinner table, it was believed that the spirit of Haloa, the ancestor of the Hawaiian people, was present.

This is because Hawaiians believed that the taro plant, or kalo, was the original ancestor of the Hawaiian people.

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