Judge, 1904-01-16 · page 15 of 16
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This page contains a single cartoon joke titled "A Difficult Conundrum." The humor depends on a play on the word "soup." A waiter serves a customer bean soup. The customer asks, "What do you call this?" The waiter replies, "Bean soup, sir." The customer then responds, "Yes, it's been soup; but what the deuce is it now?" The joke mocks the soup's poor quality or unappetizing appearance by suggesting it has deteriorated or transformed into something unrecognizable—no longer identifiable as actual soup. It's a jab at restaurant food quality, implying the dish looks so unpleasant that calling it "soup" at all is questionable. The pun on "been/bean" adds wordplay to the basic insult about the food's condition.
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