Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for October 03, 2022

Laying it on thick

Forget soup. Roz serves up grease as her main ingredient.

Even the fire couldn’t handle Roz’s soup.

It does some things well. Taste? Well …

Whatever works…

It’s Mom’s Stew Now.

Mop it up and sell it as roasted soup.

Reality — you absolutely do not use a liquid to extinguish a grease fire.

Thought you weren’t supposed to throw liquids on grease fires. Must have been really weird soup.

Adding fuel to the fire?

Plus it was starting to eat through the pot…

A grease fire? what was it, cream of baking soda?

Safety tip, from the tediously literal-minded: You don’t try to put out a grease fire with water (or soup).

Unless…

Maybe there’s little water in her soup? That doesn’t sound right.

Maybe there’s lots of fire-retardant in her soup? That sounds better.