The Coffee Place's Joke Stack
Title: Kook Book Humor #23 - Al Martin
Quahog:
Large, hard-shelled mollusk used in teh preparation of clam chowder. The name is derived from the word "poquahock," translated roughly as "a dollar with a snack inside," in the language of the Narragansett Indians of Rhode Island who, like other native American tribes, used the shells as money, or wampum. Today, clams cost a clam apiece in many restaurants, the shells are used as ashtrays, the Narragansetts are a beer, and Rhode Island is best known for chicken. There is probably a moral in this somewhere.
Quail:
1. (n.) Small bird in the partridge family, known familiarly as the bobwhite from its characteristic call and considered a great delicacy by lovers of game.
2. (v.) To recoil in horror at the sight of a pair of recently deceased songbirds nestled on one's plate.
Range:
Multipurpose kitchen appliance that cooks food by employing one of two basic heating principles: gas leak or short circuit. Ranges typically consist of a stove top with one, three or five functioning burners and two separate cooking compartments: one for baking, with a door that will not close, and one for broiling, with a door that will not open. The intensity and length of heating in these ovens are controlled by dials that indicate the temperature inside to the nearest 100 degrees and clock that displays the exact time in Madagascar.
Recipe:
A series of step-by-step instructions for preparing ingredients you forgot to buy in untesils you don't own to make a dish the dog won't eat the rest of.
Refrigerator:
Mechanically refrigerated storage compartment that is carefully calibrated to maintain a temperature low enough to lightly freeze salad greens stored in a lower vegetable drawer yet high enough to premit a gallon of milk placed on the top shelf to spoil.
Restaurant:
Where the remaining courses of a meal that began with a flambeed appetizer in a home dining room are served.
Rhubarb:
1. Foul-tasting leafy plant whose sweetened, stewed stems are made into pies or served in a dish as a sort of pudding.
2. A squabble or quarrel such as might erupt after somone is served a vegetable for dessert.
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