Friday, December 12, 2008

Green Babies and Sushi on Conveyers

"Grandpa,
look inside
my mouth
...do you
see what
I'm eating?"
"Um, yeah
...you're
eating sushi
and stuff...
like green
babies, and
fried shrimp
and fried
lobster ears
and rolled
oats and
eels and
poke and
all kinds of
Japanese
food. You
know that
sushi came
from Japan
and that's why
we got all of
these Korean
waitresses.
They put food
in different
colored plates
cuz each color
means some-
thing. Yellow
must be the
cheapest cuz
we ate three
plates of it.
And of course,
black must be
the most
expensive cuz
we only ate
one plate of it."
"Grandpa,
the black plate
had what?"
"Ummm......
I think it was
something
really tasty?"
"And what
was on the
yellow plate?"
"Well, you
call it green
babies, but
people just
call those
edemame.
When your
uncles were
small, they
used to call
brocolli -
'trees' cuz
they thought
that's what
they looked
like."
"Grandpa, what did they used to call edemame?"
"They used to call it 'genetically modified green fibrous peas of joy'
cuz they thought that's what they looked like."
"What do you call em Grandpa?"
"I call em 'soybeans'...... I don't know....sometimes I can be a rebel."
"Grandpa, why did they name the place 'O'cean Sushi and Grill'...
I mean, why did they put an apostrophe in the word 'Ocean'?"
"Well as your Grandma always says....'There must be a reason.'"
"You don't know, do you Grandpa?"
"Um ......................................... Nope."

3 comments:

Papa Joe said...

Could be the name of the Gaelic family that owns the place: http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp.fc/qx/o_cean-family-crest.htm

Three Pretty Girls said...

yeah, well that makes sense
cuz whenever I think of sushi
i think of Irish people

Papa Joe said...

Of course you do. They practically invented the concept.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtmgWrRf5ng