Silliness & food funnies 2025

[Saregama]

Reposting, for all the cast iron and carbon steel users:

Who scrubbed this iron skillet
In water, with surfactant soap,
Meant to cleanse, not kill it,

But since its black and lustrous skin|
Despoiled of its enrobing oils,|
Dulled, lets water in,

Now it is vulnerable and porous
As a hero stripped of his arms
Before a scornful chorus.

The Quiet Joy of Doing the Dishes

This little gem of poem cracked me up (by A.E. Stallings, in “Cast Irony”): Who scrubbed this iron skillet In water, with surfactant soap, Meant to cleanse, not kill it, But since its black and lustrous skin| Despoiled of its enrobing oils,| Dulled, lets water in, Now it is vulnerable and porous As a hero stripped of his arms Before a scornful chorus.