Redigerettors 24. feb 2011
Sitting in a small restaurant, a client asked the proprietor for the menu. "We don´t need a menu here," said the proprietor, "We can serve anything you ask for."
"What, anything?" asked the client.
"Yes, anything at all." was the reply.
"In that case, I would like some camel´s tail soup."
"Very well, sir, but it will take a little while, and you will have to wait a while for it."
"That´s OK," said the client. He sat waiting for an hour or so, then a waiter brought a tureen of fragrant soup. He ate the lot, and was thoroughly delighted.
He called for the proprietor. "I really enjoyed that," he said, "But surely it was not really camel´s tail soup."
Rejoined the proprietor, "It certainly was. Tell you what, come with me."
The client was led to the back of the restaurant, where a Porsche was parked, and was motioned into it. They drove about a hundred miles into the countryside, to an enormous farm. There the client was amazed to see every possible kind of exotic plant, animal and bird.
The restaurant proprietor pointed to a compound in which there were two camels, of which one had only a stump of a tail, bandaged, with a trace of blood.
"That´s where your soup came from," he announced.
The client was absolutely flummoxed. "That is remarkable,"he gasped, "but there must sometimes be demands you can´t satisfy."
"No," replied the proprietor, "we have never been caught out... Wait, no, we were once... when a customer asked for crocodile balls on toast. .........We were clean out of bread."
BR
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