Long story, but I can shorten it: A bunch of us took an annual weekend up north. Meals were usually of the canned chili, canned beef stew, and a couple of dozen dinner roll variety. That worked to feed a bunch of drunken undergrads.
Until the year that one of us decided to invite a professional chef. He was going to cook us a wonderful dinner. Really, and the guy who invited the chef bought $50 bottles of wine to accompany it.
After a couple of hours of “is it ready yet?” and being told, “just a little while longer,” somebody asked if somebody could go into town, and get pizza. Which happened. Dunno what happened to that chef’s meal (it was probably trashed, because by the time it was ready, we were all full of takeout pizza), but I was happy with a few slices of pepperoni pizza from a chain place.
So my Match Game answer would be, “Is it ready yet?”
Fun Fact: the guy with the $50 bottles of wine was knocked down a peg when one of the guys, who had had a lot of beer, said, “Sure, wine is great. I’ll only piss it out anyway.”
Of course it was “soup”. I can hear the voiceover in my head even now.
@susan, with a side order of @Beckdawrek, win the thread. I believe I know the genders of all the posters so far. They are the only women in the thread; everyone else is men. Gentlemen, does this correlation suggest anything to you? Must. Do. Better.
Back a bunch of years ago when I was in IT I was on a call with a customer in New Zealand. Talking about our progress towards some feature release I used a phrase taken off of that one: “It’s almost soup yet”. They were utterly baffled. And in fact the only soup metaphor they knew was “in the soup”, meaning “bad and getting worse.” So while I communicating sunny optimism they’d see results next week, they thought I was telegraphing a project derailed into impending disaster. Oops. Pro tip: artifacts of culture based on TV commercials are far more parochial than one might think.
It might be fun to create a similar thread along the lines of “Complete the advertising catchphrase” where folks could spoiler their guesses to previous taglines and provide a new one with a strategic blank to be guessed. And no fair inviting @kenobi_65 to the party. He’ll win every single one.
BTW, that is also one of the audience “shoutbacks” from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, when Frank is adding the multi-colored goo to the tank. When Rocky starts to move, you yell “It’s SOUP!”
I get it. I know that when people here talk about kids’ shows and remember every detail vividly it all goes over my head because I was too old for almost all of them. We each have a slice of fleeting pop culture that’s imprinted in our brains.
, but that’s because I am probably a couple years too young to have heard and remembered the phrase the first time around. Even upon hearing the correct answer, it didn’t even ring a bell to me.
