An Affair to Remember


It greatly disturbs me that I have a bottle of fish sauce in my refrigerator.


I have no idea how it came to be there. For that matter, I have no idea what it is used for. It has been sitting there rather unassumingly for some time now, fraternizing with the Grey Poupon in some forgotten corner of my condiments shelf. I am not in the habit of wasting food, and as such, I have not had the heart to throw it away.

I think it had a love tryst with the kikkoman. I have been finding little packets of duck sauce strewn about, and I can only assume that they are the progeny of their illicit union.

It prompted me to write a haiku about the whole sordid affair.

Fish sauce how can you
Sit there so coolly while I
Ponder your being?

The soy sauce was so distraught it tried to commit suicide yesterday, leaping haphazardly from its precarious perch. Or was it just trying to distance itself from the minced garlic? If my neighbor had such an offensive disposition, I might try to move too.

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Unknown said…
Not enough Haiku's in the world.
Fish sauce is a necessary ingredient for making your own pad thai. And ketchup, but that's supposed to be the 'secret' ingredient. Yeah, some secret.
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