>
> When we were much younger we invited some friends and their kids for
> dinner. My wife cooked an orange chicken dish, and when she was taking it
> out of the oven she dropped it and the food was all over the floor. My
> friend, a doctor, said not to panic, the floor was reasonably clean and
the
> food was hot, so he scooped everything up and put in on the serving
platter
> while delegating me to fill up a pan with cold water for my wife to soak
> her foot in, and his daughter to get a rag and wipe up the floor.
>
> He made my wife soak her food in the cold water though the entire first
> course.
>

This seems like rather unusual punishment for spilling the food. I hope her
foot was clean. ;~)
H