06.23.06
Kitchen Humor
This will most likely be an ever-growing series as I notice that a lot of jokes are told in the kitchen, and it is amazing how many of them revolve around food. Or is it that a lot of jokes have food-related angles and I never noticed it before?…
Anyway, this one struck me as particularly funny, so I thought I would post it to give you all a sense of how low-brow it goes in a kitchen. My current chef instructor is a C.E.P.C. (Certified Executive Pastry Chef) and is gay. (Not that I care that he is gay, but it is important to note as you will soon see…) So we were making pound cake last night, and we needed to grease the pans. I had to get shortening and flour form the back to grease and flour the loaf pans.
I go into the stockroom and find the shortening which is in a giant box. No, not little tubs people. When you need a lot of shortening (and since it pretty much never goes bad) you get it in giant boxes–we’re talking bigger than wine cases here. I heft the box up, and carry it into the room.
The fact that I was carrying about 20 lbs of pure fat amused me somewhat, and as I came hauling that into the room the chef caught my eye (making sure I had the right box) and I said “Aww YEAH!”. I set the box down, and the conversation goes as follows:
Chef: “Matt, when you come into a room carrying a giant box of lube, please don’t say ‘Aww YEAH!’ It conjures up the wrong images.”
Me: “OK Chef, but when I put this back, I think I may need you to help me squeeze it back in.”
Chef: “You’re a bastard.”
Yes, it is entirely that low-brow, but it had us both laughing for some time. Thank God I have a delightfully low threshold for what I find funny. (Believe it or not, I was actually voted “Most Likely to Laugh” in my high school class. I am still not entirely sure what that meant, but I thought it was funny…)
Anyway, like I said, I am sure there will be many more of these jokes to share, and if anyone has a good food-related joke (or funny story that involves food) I would love to hear it! Keep it clean though people! There are children reading this! (and my mom does too…)
Stumble it!
robert said,
June 24, 2006 at 1:55 pm
That is funny. I particularly relate to the bit about your mom reading, as I got a, “do you *have* to curse on your website?” from mine at one point. Great site so far man, and thanks for leaving a comment on mine and directing me to it.