Possible Clues:

• Decorate me, Father with a pound of it
• Hundreds in a matter of course for decoration
• An award, in slang a gong
• Decoration for a soldier perhaps
• Award for the soldier
• Lamed by award
• Olympianâs prize
• one might eat about five hundred such for decoration
• Succeed at the Olympics
• Me old man gets to fifty by way of decoration