QUESTION FOR MAGIC SHAKE-BALL:
Dear Shake-Ball,
Why do the kids eat the school cafeteria's turkey chili but not mine?
Fondly,
A Curious Mom
MAGIC SHAKE-BALL'S RESPONSE:
"O mistress, mistress, shift and save yourself!
My master and his man are both broke loose,
Beaten the maids a-row and bound the doctor
Whose beard they have singed off with brands of fire;
And ever, as it blazed, they threw on him
Great pails of puddled mire to quench the hair."
--The Comedy of Errors 5.1. 177-82
INTERPRETATION
This is a play about twins, which suggests that the two turkey chilis are in fact identical. Just as I suspected.
Or, here's another take: even if the school chili tastes like "great pails of puddled mire," it's served in a more entertaining environment than the family dining room. I think I know the kid who set someone's beard on fire.
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