The Whistler (website)/November 1999

November, 1999

Whistling Pines Soup Scandal!
Mystery Substance Draws Student Attention

"It was the smell that started everything," admitted Wolf Dubois. "Not that you don't get a lot of those coming out of Pill's kitchen! But this one -- well, it was special. And I don't mean that in a good way." Students were seen leaving the cafeteria in droves during lunch hour, holding their noses and fleeing for fast food stands in the neighborhood.

"Like, ICK, I was NOT going to eat anything THAT gross!" complained Whitney Weiss.

"Yeah, our gym lockers smell better than that!" gagged Chaz Franklin, standing next to a slightly green-around-the-gills Cleve Goodstaff.

"Maybe the Board of Health should be called..." suggested Nakili Abuto.

"Oh, I think this is way past the BOH," added Dana St. Clair. "I think we're talking Sanitation Department, ya know? Out with the garbage!"

After most students had cleared the area, Dubois slipped behind the scenes and into the kitchen itself. "There was this big pot of green goo bubbling away on the stove. I could see things in it...things that definitely shouldn't be in someone's soup!"

Part of the mystery was solved when Bill Pill, C.I.C. (Chef-In-Charge), returned from his own extremely tasty lunch at Cafe le Frou-Frou.

"Hey, sometimes I need a lunch break myself, see?" growled Pill. "Them picky fritter-brains shouldn't be poking around my territory, anyway! And that Dubois kid has got it in for me. Ask anybody..."

Okay, but what about the soup?

"That ain't no soup! That's my own Love Truck's special glue recipe, the one she uses to help all those cute little preschoolers paste together their little Thanksgiving cards for Mommy and Daddy."

And its contents?

"That would be telling, wouldn't it? Big glue companies would be glad to get their mitts on my secret formula. All I can say is that it is very ecologically efficient, using stuff no one wants anymore. Like old socks. And certain kinds of paper. And bits of cow and chicken that these little hamsters would turn their noses up at! And that big sack of moldy Parmesan cheese I found out the back of the dairy case. But that's all I'm sayin'..."

When this reporter asked Principal Herrera her opinion of the sitch, she was reluctant to comment. "Bill is right, kids should stay out of the kitchen -- if only for safety's sake! All I can add, however, is thank goodness no one ate any of it!"

But WPJH, a glue factory?

Sez Mrs. H.: "The kitchen is no place to brew glue. Mr. Pill has been told to move his stewing pot to the outside grill in future...downwind of the school!"

Well, there goes the neighborhood's appetite. Me, I can hardly wait to see what we're getting as our pre-Thanksgiving meal on the 24th! Soup sleuth Dubois had this to say:

"I'm definitely bagging it that week."

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