Cooking TipsThe Barbecue Sauce Bet
A young man was going by a slightly seedy looking eaterie, when he spotted a sign in the window offering a free dinner. A real dinner was an event our hero had not took part in for a really long time, so in he went, found the manager, and requested the publicized free meal.
The manager explained, with a grin, that there had been a bet involved. Next, there had been an alligator in the back room with a bad tooth, which he must remove, and finally, he would have to apply 2 coats of nail polish, to the waitress"s toes. If he could do it all in 20 minutes, he would win the best dinner he had ever had.
The ensuing din was something similar to you have never heard. There was thumping, banging, scratching, and a scream or 2. He went straight to the counter, asked for another jar of that barbecue sauce, drank each drop, and returned to the back room. This time, the noise was superb. If you can imagine what it would sound like if a semi van drove through a china shop and into a pet store, you"d be getting close to the awful racket coming out of that room.
Suddenly, it was silent. Then, with a loud bang, the door to the back room slammed open, and there he stood. Our intrepid fellow was scratched from head to toe, the rags he"d been wearing were shredded to a state beyond rag, and you might tell by the look on his face, that he could have decided this free dinner came with quite a price ticket. He stumbled to the counter, requested yet another bottle of barbecue sauce, drank it in one gulp, asked how much time he had left, which turned out to be nine mins, and returned once more to the back room. In less than a minute, he was back at the counter. "Please sir, would you start my dinner now, and additional barbecue sauce, if you don"t mind. I"m finished with the alligator, and it should only take a couple of mins to pull the waitress"s tooth."