Title of story ‘In Lucky & Lazy Land?’ About kids eating thru spaghetti mtn and cooked pig running around w/fork in him. Moral was about things coming too easy (laziness).”
I could have story title wrong but that’s what I remember. Title of book is unknown but looks similar to Favorite Stories Old & New.
I wish I could look at TOC for every book from that style and publisher. Gist of the story is about two kids I think who ate through a mountain of spaghetti together to this special land where every thing was done for them. Food walked around already cooked or growing on trees ready to eat. No work required. People sat back and were lazy.
Is this a really old book? I found this snippet from a 1911 Christian Advocate (can’t see the rest):
“just exactly as he pleased and where he would have nothing to do for anyone else, no errands for days and days and days. He had his wish in Lucky- Lazy-Land, where he could get Ice cream or Thanksgiving dinners, or anything he ever wished for except — oh. except his mother. .”
There’s an older version of the story called ‘Lucky-and-Lazy-Land’ by T. J. Kommers that appeared in a weekly publication called ‘The Outlook’ (Volume 57, No. 2, pg. 146, September 11th, 1897 – available online in Google Books). While this isn’t the exact story you’re looking for, perhaps it will help in your search?
In this story, the narrator recounts how his father once was told the way to Lucky-and-Lazy-Land, which was reached by way of eating his way through a mountain of porridge made with butter and sugar. On the other side, he found such things as pancakes prepared with butter and syrup growing on trees, fried fish swimming in the river, a hill filled with cooked eggs, and – yes – the roasted pig walking around with a knife in its back, inviting him to cut himself a slice. However, he was lonely there – and when he finally met another man, that man was looking for the way out because he couldn’t endure living there any longer. While it was nice for a while, he wanted to have friends and do work and live as other men, so the two of them found their way back to the porridge mountain and ate their way back out again.
Sounds like “A Trip to Lazibonia” by Heinrich-Maria Denneborg.
There is a story called Lucky-and-Lazy-Land by T J Kommers that matches your description which is in the collection New Outlook, Volume 57 edited by Alfred Emanuel Smith and Francis Walton – 1897
It looks like this whole book is in the public domain, and it can be viewed online for free by using a google book search.