Fly in the Soup!
All of us have heard the joke
about how people of different nationalities respond to a fly floating in their
soup, that they ordered in a particular hotel. Here is an extended version of
the same.
One fine day an American went to a restaurant and ordered soup. When it was delivered, he found a fly floating in it. He left the hotel immediately, hired a lawyer and sued the hotel for $ 100 million, for being careless enough to allow potentially hazardous contaminants to get into their food. While the case went on, he started a ‘fly-rights’ movement saying flies, like humans, had birthrights too. The movement urged the Government to make it mandatory that every kitchen have a ‘No soup zone’ where flies could fly around freely without facing the danger of steaming soup bowls getting in their way.
The Englishman, who faced the same situation, said nothing in the hotel, but wrote to The London Times that the hotel had personally insulted him. He said that the soup symbolised the contemporary society that changed so dynamically and the fly represented old-fashioned Englishmen, like himself, who struggled to stay afloat in it. He also wrote that such mockery would not be tolerated in the future and requested the Hotel to stop serving the soup of the same flavour as a gesture of regret and send a formal letter of apology to him.
The Frenchman, on seeing his soup with a fly was filled with immense joy, and hailed it as a priceless piece of art. He presented it, in the same condition, to The Louvre museum, Paris in exchange of a six-digit sum. The fame and value of the exhibit soared to great heights, when it began making its presence felt with a considerably strong stench. When the mortal remnants of the insect degenerated, dissolved and disappeared into its surroundings, an expert was employed to keep dropping a similar fly in the same spot to retain the craftsmanship of the masterpiece.
The Brazilian did nothing but observed the poor fly twitching and turning in the hot soup bowl carefully. Based on this he developed his own dance form known as the fly-samba. An American rapper who happened to see this fly samba, at the Rio-carnival, decided immediately to incorporate the same into his latest music video. The song was emblematically titled, ‘Pretty fly for a white guy.’
The Pakistani exclaimed on seeing the ‘fly in the soup’ that this was a ploy by India and such acts would not deter the Pakistanis from their freedom struggle. The Indian Foreign ministry, in its statement, refused India’s involvement with the incident calling it a cowardly act. It also utilised the opportunity to remind Pakistan that India, being a Nuclear Power, had the potential to impart far more serious consequences, but at the same time being a peace loving country follows the principle of ‘No first strike’.
The man from Afghanistan left silently on seeing the fly in the soup. The next day, an Aeroplane was seen plunging nose first into the same hotel, causing massive destruction. In what, according to many, could have been a related incident, another plane crashed a few blocks away from the residence of the hotel manager.
The Indian threw the fly and had the soup; the Chinese threw the soup and had the fly.
This article is written with the sole aim of providing
comic relief. No offense whatsoever is meant both to the people and the flies
that appeared in the narration.
