Soup Du Jour
Friko is our Master Chef -
but you won't see her on telly.
She won't allow us kitchen staff
to cook up vermicelli,
only lots of different soups,
to fill each hungry belly.
We've kept the tables turning now
for one year and three days,
and managed to have lots of laughs
in various odd ways.
We really are a motley crew,
of that there is no doubt,
but when we get into a stew,
she comes and pulls us out!
With cryptic quips and other tricks
she keeps us in our places -
as long as we behave ourselves,
and don't kick off our traces.
Long may Soup continue
to be our daily fare,
because it really is the best
that you'll find anywhere!

Sometimes spicy, sometimes just plain hot and often poetic - quite a soup recipe.
ReplyDeleteEverything in it, including the kitchen sink. My mom always said that made the best kind of soup.
ReplyDeleteI didn't anticipate having so much fun here - bravo, dear Friko for such a terrific idea!
As for you, Jinksy, you're brilliant.
Jinksy, you've done us proud! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteHere's to the next year, let's cook up a storm, or, at least, a little ripple of wind. Failing that, flatulence will do nicely.
I can almost hear a burp poem coming on...
ReplyDeleteYou know you're reading Fridge Soup , when a tribute to a talented poet can descend , in a mere four comments , to a conversation about farting .
ReplyDeleteWonderful !
...raising my glass of ice water to another year!
ReplyDeleteI'm raising a bratwurst in your honor (we in Green Bay, Wisconsin live on the stuff). LOVE your stuff, soup-sters! ;-)
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to another year of soup . . . and to that burp poem!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to all the cooks!
ReplyDeleteOften reading the first two lines of a poem is enough to identify it as another Jinksy masterpiece ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm raising my cup of coffee to another year of delicious soup. Farts and all!
S&S LOL!!
ReplyDeleteJInksy . . how do you do it? For example, did you think "belly" and then come up with "vermicelli" for the rhyme - or was it the other way round?
ReplyDeleteRaining Acorns - don't forget, a burp takes a while to surface ...probably so will my poem!
ReplyDeleteCarolina- flatulance and farts are not the same thing...
Doc- Belly and vermicelli were part of one Foody Thought. I originally liked tagliatelle but it had too many syllables! Actually the ’telly’ came first... Think Ready, Steady, Cook!
Sorry , the farts* were my fault .
ReplyDeleteI'd just been reading a BBC report about possible misinterpretation of Malawi's anti-pollution laws .
*mention of , I hasten to add .