Modern Folklore

A Rendition of Modern Folklore by Larry Farris

There once was a man who grew up in a way that Chicken soup represented love. Whenever he needed comfort, reassurance, or emotional attention his Mom would pop into the kitchen and make him Chicken soup.

There once was a woman who grew up in a way that Tomato soup represented love. Whenever she needed comfort, reassurance, or emotional attention her Mom would pop into the kitchen and make her Tomato soup.

The couple met, fell in love, and wed.

One day the man came home to his bride. The world, to him, had been especially cruel this day and he requested some love.

His bride quickly popped into the kitchen and began cooking. From the front room the man could sense his awaited love offering. Pots were clanging, the stove was on, and she was heard softly hustling around the kitchen.

As she immerged from the kitchen she presented the man with a wonderfully prepared Tomato soup.

The man, with disappointment in his face, said, "Honey, all I want is some love."

The bride thought that she must have gotten something wrong. She went back to the kitchen and called her Mother. As she wept they together retraced each step making certain that the bride in fact prepared love in perfection.

The bride emerged from the kitchen with the perfect terrain of Tomato soup. He, broken from the days events, thought to himself, "Oh, I must have married the wrong woman, she has no love to give" and he ate the soup.

The bride noticed that her love was not pleasing enough to her man. She felt rejected, unattractive and low. Still, she determined to make a perfect offering of love.

She went to the fields and selected the best tomatoes, she went to the dairy and acquired the freshest milk, she went to the highest places to pick the freshest herbs and then returned to her kitchen and cooked, and cooked, and cooked, and cooked.

Exhausted in her efforts, she then presented her most perfect offering of love to her husband.

He, seeing her efforts, sensing her sacrifice, softly and simply replied. "Honey, I do not understand, all I wanted was Chicken soup."

"Chicken soup? Chicken soup? You said that you wanted love. Love is not Chicken soup, love is Tomato soup!"

She then explained how as a child whenever she needed comfort, reassurance, or emotional attention her that Mom would pop into the kitchen and make her Tomato soup. Tomato soup is love," she said.

He then told her how when he needed comfort, reassurance, or emotional attention his Mom would pop into the kitchen and make him Chicken soup from a can.

The young bride, confused and still in a daze, walked into the kitchen, opened a can of Chicken soup, poured it into a bowl, stuck it into the microwave oven, waited 2 minutes, removed the bowl from the microwave, grabbed a spoon and handed it to her husband... and then he knew that she did, indeed, love him.

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Larry Farris is a White House trained sales and persuasion coach.