That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for November 09, 2023

My original post all the way back in 2021:

The same day the Emperor hires a new tailor to make his “new clothes,” he hired a new chef to make his “new food.”

/// 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.

Charley the pot boy, at his annual performance review

Is this pot big enough to cook your goose?

“All right! Who ate all the Boeuf Bourguignon?”

Now that’s the dish you use for Caesar Augustus’ Salad.

“What do you mean, ‘The first of a hundred’?”

Might be just enough to prepare the jumbo pie for Thanksgiving dinner if you get started now.

Please sir, may I have some more?

“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 limerick from years ago!!!

And a thousand more limericks since….

Bad carrier choice…cleaning the chamber pot for the king’s pet elephant

“Zoot alors,” thinks the despondent pot boy. “No sooner do I get this pot all clean and shiny, than that fat old chef gets it all gooey and blackened, again!”

Orville Redenbacher giving his sales pitch for kettle corn.

This brass pot used to smell of poop and flowers, until I tried spraying it with Pooph!

Whadau mean you liked it black?

A young Logan Paul, seen here cleaning up the chamber pot before switching it with the kettle.

Louis really wished his Mama would stop using the good soup pot to bathe the new baby on the days he had to make his own supper.

“This is the biggest food bowl I could find for Cerberus.”

I hope this poor bast—d got paid for the time s/he had to use posing for this painting. The face and the dishpan hands say it all.

The infomercial guy enthuses, “It takes 4,750 recycled pennies to make one of these beauteous copper bowls. Great for whipping egg whites, cake mixes, and cold soups. I mean … This baby does it ALL!”

Yes, the baby too.

The Cook: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Cooks in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found, and once there find the text string Cozinheiro, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this painting. Other versions has the strip coloration image.

Again, a larger strip image is also shown by merely clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s THROWBACK THURSDAY: MASTERPIECE #2676 (4/1/21) (November 8, 2023) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment. I have added a comment there (awaiting Mr. Melcher’s approval) pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, only work by him used here (2 times total, including this Throwback Thursday repeat), the April 1, 2021, strip being its first use.

This strip went to pot fast.

chef john never had to worry about never having a pot to p in.