The original version of this tale is a brag where each line is a bigger lie about how great the Land of Cockaigne was. The Tale about the Land of Cockaigne In the days of the land of Cockaigne I ...

In medieval Europe, peasants had a vision of paradise that they called the Land of Cockaigne. It was a mythical place of plenty, where the walls were made of sausages and the sky rained cheese.

But Bruegel never lapsed into slickness or sentimentality ... Some of his fantasies, like The Land of Cockaigne, a kind of 16th Century Big Rock Candy Mountain, were as timeless as meat & potatoes.