Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 14, 2012

It’s the ingredients that scare me.

like the hotdog: you don’t wanna know….

the sign may say thatbut those folks in there are actually eating egg drop soup

It could have been Leek soup.

OR: Another way of saying “hey” or “hi”…careful with those blue pencils

bird’s nest soup as the appetizer, birds for the entree

Perhaps this is Wiley’s take on that recent article about Alicia Silverstone regurgitating her child’s food,and feeding it to him…

Spoon fed?

I had bird’s nest soup frequently during a visit to Hong Kong. It’s DELICIOUS! (and expensive)

No, that was his brother, Hop Dance.

I not only don’t want to know how it’s made – I don’t want to eat it either!

Some of the foregoing comments have completely removed any curiosity on my part to give bird’s nest soup a try. Ever. Talk about a greasy spoon joint.

This recalls to mind an old Far Side strip; the meeting of the bird watchers club where they were being fed spaghetti noodles with their mouths open and facing upwards.

The babies’ feces are enclosed in little sacks that the parents remove from the nests.

Copy post, delete post, paste copied post as a new submission, edit post, submit.

First, you gather bits of twigs and dandelion fluff, about a cup and a half; then spit on it for cohesion (say 1/4 cup saliva); mix with hands. Form into donut shape. Preheat oven to 300 degrees and bake for 3 – 5 minutes until evenly browned. Turn once mid way through. Go outside, climb a tree, find another nest, steal baby birds, stab them through their bitty heads with paring knife. Nestle them into nest, all cuddly and cute. Drop in boiling water for 14 minutes. Add splash of olive oil and large pinch of salt. Stand at windows with shotgun to ward off angry mother birds who will get all their bird friends to storm your home in retribution. Run screaming from house while birds peck at you and water boils over and house burns down. Voila! Nest Egg Soup! Enjoy!

Let me guess, the tomato surprise drops out of the ceiling…….I remember the time I ate the chef’s salad…boy was he pissed…..

BTW,do not order their club sandwich…..sucker hurts like hell…….

But the food here is really cheep,cheep,cheep!

“It’s actually made out of spit, but I guess so is honey”No, honey is bug vomit.

“(Why can’t we edit posts ?)”I edit posts lots and lots by copying what I wrote; clicking the “Comment on this strip” rectangle, below; pasting the original passage onto the rectangle; making desired changes; reposting; and deleting the original post. (Can do this in a fraction of the time it took to write all that.)

@Varnes – I often smile at the comments but seldom laugh out loud – did at your comment. I will always fall for jokes like that – never expect them.

They’re not stuck together with bird saliva, they’re MADE ENTIRELY out of bird saliva (edible-nest Swiflets, indigineous to South Asia). Food for thought (no pun intended).

maybe Birds Nest Restaurant?

so that’s why. i ordered the Captain’s Catch. i got those dirty looks

GW’s cooks name was “Ching”, Chill Wills character “Drago” threatened to cut off his pigtail if he didn’t alow Mrs. Warren into the kitchen.

Hey, y’all want to eat spit all you need to do is send the steak back, or insult the waiter.

birds nest? i thought it was rhetorical. i didn’t actually think it was eaten. ick. i guess if you were a starving frenchman during the middle ages famines, it was probably a moot point. why do i feel this is where a lot of those dumpster-diver dish names/ingredients came from…like stewed ocra, brussel sprouts, head cheese (not the porn kind), etc.

somebodyshort, and from what I understand, the soup tastes funny too….