I’m going to guess again because this one doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. As Wally Cleaver could tell you, even as recently as the 50s, if you paid as much as sixty cents for a bowl of soup – you were in a VERY fancy restaurant! And the drawing on this one looks more like it was in the 30s or 40s, when meat was either too expensive for most people to have it most of the time – or being rationed. So Jeff’s first observation – to be quiet or everyone will want a fly in their soup – is probably where the joke begins- but the rest of the conversation wanders off the subject. This is apparently a case of a 20-something youngster trying to adjust a joke which was written during a time period which he/she knows nothing about.
I’m going to guess again because this one doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. As Wally Cleaver could tell you, even as recently as the 50s, if you paid as much as sixty cents for a bowl of soup – you were in a VERY fancy restaurant! And the drawing on this one looks more like it was in the 30s or 40s, when meat was either too expensive for most people to have it most of the time – or being rationed. So Jeff’s first observation – to be quiet or everyone will want a fly in their soup – is probably where the joke begins- but the rest of the conversation wanders off the subject. This is apparently a case of a 20-something youngster trying to adjust a joke which was written during a time period which he/she knows nothing about.