“My Pea Soup Fiasco” By Suzan L. Wiener, Spring Hill, USA
Posted by Team 4indianwoman at 29 September 2007, 12:06 AM and is filed under Real Life Funny Incident 
My husband and I married when I was twenty-eight and he was twenty-nine. We visited
his mother for a few days as she couldn‘t attend the wedding.. Mom's kitchen was always
pristine and when she went out for the afternoon, we decided to surprise her by making a
batch of her favorite pea soup. After all, how hard it could it be.
We had watched her make it many times, so we knew it would be a snap. I put the
ingredients in the pressure cooker just like the recipe said, put the lid in place,
turned on the stove and went we went into the living room to watch television. There was a
war movie on, so when we heard the loud bang, we thought it was the cannon going off.
Little did we know what it really was.
About thirty minutes later, we decided to check on our soup and were we in
for the surprise! The noise we had heard was that the lid had blown off the pressure cooker
and pea soup was everywhere.
Mom's kitchen that she prided herself on, was now a mass of sea-green foam. It was
everywhere. The counters, the walls, the stovetop - everywhere. While we tried to clean it,
it would hardly budge. Our laughter was uncontrollable as we thought of how mom would
react when she saw the mess. Of course, we felt bad at the same time too.
She came home around five o'clock with a happy grin on her face, that is, until
she saw the kitchen fiasco.
"What happened?" she said with a look of shock.
No amount of explaining was placating her. Not only did Mom's kitchen look
green, so did her face. I made an impression on her alright - just not the kind I intended!
Quite a fiasco... I am sure you never tried making pea soup again!
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Hi,
Post-marriage one does so try to make impressions, you aren't alone there!
And I guess kitchen disasters top the list - only when you look back at them, you see the lighter side.
Yr blog reminded me of many such debacles that had brought me to tears, only now they seem so funny!
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Thanks so much, Irene & Sangeeta. Now it is very funny to us, but at the time, wasn't quite as funny!
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