Aunty Acid by Ged Backland for July 18, 2022

So what do you use for the hangover? Chicken soup?

She’s almost as bad as Andy Capp.

Chicken soup is good for what ails you. If you’ve got soul problems, there’s no help for you.

The poultry method debunked!

Is chicken soup still good for you if you’re soulless?

Aunty, when your feet hurt, you get drunk, when you eyes hurt you get, drunk, when your brain hurts you get drunk, when you butt hurts you get drunk. Let’s face is Aunty……….You are a DRUNK!

― Stanley Gordon West, Growing An Inch

Weep, and you weep alone;

For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,

But has trouble enough of its own.”

― Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Poems of Passion

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I have known too many people whose souls (and lives) were destroyed by alcohol.

The whining wino.

Bad advice, Ged.

Aunty, what’s your favorite ‘poison’???

I don’t think your liver would agree, besides there’s not enough Kentucky bourbon, Tennessee moonshine (or whiskey), Scotches (blended and single malt), Vodkas (flavored or plain), Gins, Beers, Wines, Slivovitz, Brandies, Cognacs, Tequilas, and other alcohols that’d solve anyone’s problems by over imbibing them. Yeah, you forget your troubles whilst intoxicated, but they return with a whole new batch of friends when you sober up.

That’s a lot of getting drunk when you’re soulless.

A few lines from A.E. Housman on escaping with alcohol

Heigho, the tale was all a lie; The world, it was the old world yet, I was I, my things were wet, And nothing now remained to do But begin the game anew.

Best get a priest for your soul!

And then she pukes it all up and her stomach feels so much better.

I’m pretty sure the whole “chicken soup for the soul” thing is a metaphor, referring to inspirational things that can have the same curative powers for the soul that chicken soup (at least in the Jewish tradition) has for the body. But I won’t argue the point with Aunty right now, as she appears to be quite wasted.

I have had some Awesome Chicken soups.

I’m torn between Chicken & Egg Noodles and Chicken & Dumplings when it comes to choosing a favorite.

We had chickens in our back yard when I was a kid. My mother used to occasionally make Egg Noodles.