Joseph Bail, French
Bruce Wayne’s Chef Summoning Him To Dinner Via the Vat-Signal, 1910
Oil on canvas
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2676 (4/1/21)
Vot kind of a critter is dat/
dat lies on da floor of da vat ?/
could it be da feces/
of some unknown species-/
Or leftover pieces of cat ?
(my original post – 1,000 limericks ago …
Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (archived if necessary), here, here (can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, and here, perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia Google translated French Wikipedia page.
/// The Cook makes a famed Mystery Soup.
Want the recipe? I’ve got the scoop.
In a huge copper pot
he throws all that he’s got,
boiled for hours, it dissolves into goop.
/// When the pot’s emptied, ready to clean,
other clues we are able to glean.
Liquid drained, scan the dregs.
There’s the shells of twelve eggs,
road kill, bird heads and week-old sardine.
/// He seems young for a cook, which is rare.
Calm and unperturbed, slim, fit and fair.
In his French cooking school
he developed this rule:
Never eat any food you prepare!
/// Why would so many customers choose
to eat soup that is made with boiled shoes?
And with several dashes
of Cook’s cigarette ashes?
Blame the secret ingredient: booze.