Thursday, January 7, 2010

The Abbreviated Adventures of Mogey & Smush Volume CCLVII

One rainy day Mogey and Smush were indoors enjoying a late luncheon of boiled potatoes, boiled ham, and boiled wild grouse shank with habanero chutney.

"You know what spice should be on every table, in addition to the salt and pepper?" Smush asked.

"Tarragon, of course," Mogey replied, dabbing grouse juice from his lip.

"No."

"Coriander then," Mogey said with certainty.

"No," Smush replied, "I was thinking of--"

"Paprika? Nutmeg? Caraway?"

"Butterscotch pudding," Smush answered. "Tell me...what's butterscotch pudding NOT good on?"

"You've got something there, Smush," Mogey said respectfully. "You really have got something! Just think, one day far in the future, when there's a tub of butterscotch pudding is at every fashionable dinner table, your great grandchildren will be able to look back and say that their great-grandfather Smush was the first. The butterscotch pudding pioneer!"

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