Sunday, July 25, 2021

5219 - Long joke Sunday


The owner of a seafood restaurant sends one of his sons undercover to his rival's restaurant. 

The dad tells him to get a job as a cook and figure out the recipe for his rival's famous clam chowder. 

The first day, the son comes home with a basic list of ingredients that the rival uses. They try making it, but it doesn't turn out the same. The dad sends him back. 

The second day, the son comes home having watched the rival chef prepare the chowder. They try again to make it, and it's close, but the consistency is off. 

"It's too watery!" said the dad. "It needs to be thicker!"

They try to figure out what they're doing wrong, and the son realizes that he was distracted for a minute while the chef did something. 

"He must have added a secret ingredient, one not on the list, while you looked away!" concludes the dad. 

He sends his son back for a third day, this time telling him not to take his eyes off the chef for a second. The son comes back the next day excited. 

"You'll never believe what I saw!" he says. "He did have a secret ingredient, it's a piece of paper!"

"A piece of paper?"

"Yeah, he keeps a stack of printed paper in the kitchen. It's a bunch of Wikipedia articles he's printed out, of various movies. When he makes the chowder, he tears out the synopsis of a movie from one of the articles and puts it in. It's the strangest thing, but that's the secret ingredient."

"Ah," says the dad, "the plot thickens."


11 comments:

Elephant's Child said...

Groan.

Mike said...

Sue - Did it hurt? Or was it just a side ache groan?

John A Hill said...

It hurt

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Oh my gawd, GROAN!

Kathy G said...

I think this is the punniest joke I've read from you. And that's saying a lot.

Mike said...

John - But as John Mellencamp says, it hurts so good.

Deb - An all caps groan, nice.

Kathy - That's a lot of pressure to do better. I'm not sure I can handle it.

Cloudia said...

But of Course!

allenwoodhaven said...

Groan and laugh at the same time! Did NOT see that coming...

Mike said...

Cloudia - It makes sense to me!

Allen - Suprise endings are good.

Bilbo said...

Oy ...

Mike said...

Bill - This could be the basis of your book, sort of like a Davinchy Code. You just need more words to fill up the book.