Food for Thought

Today I soup for lunch.

Not only did I have soup for lunch, but I also learned that I have been using a tin opener incorrectly for the last 18 years. Well, I haven’t been alive for 18 years yet. And even if I were 18, I wouldn’t have been using a tin opener since birth. I did not climb out of the birth canal, wipe the amniotic fluid from my eyes and open a tin of soup. That did not happen. But you get what I am trying to say.

I also learned that you can microwave soup. While this is may not seem like a huge revelation, think of the time - and the cleaning up - it will save me when I eat soup from now on. I just wished I learned that before I started cooking the soup on the hob. Having said that, I did not learn that you should pour the soup out of the tin BEFORE you put it in the microwave until AFTER I had finished my soup, so it is probably a good thing I did not.

I also learned that leaving a saucepan full to the brim of soup on the cooker while I leave to watch television is a bad idea. Even if the show in question is My Name Is Earl. I also learned that touching a hot metal saucepan, containing boiling soup, with my bare hand is and even worse idea.

After all that learning I sat down in front of the telly with my soup and a bread roll and watched my show. This week, Earl tried to give the government money he owed them however they wouldn’t take it because they had no record of them owing it to them and Randy bought a moped. Earl learned that the government does a lot to help people, even without them knowing it and that being a taxpayer isn’t all that bad. I turns out I’m not the only person learning things today.

I also learned that I do not like Thai vegetable soup.

Lennox