Bachelor Cooking

One evening two bachelors were talking over dinner. The conversation
drifted from sports to politics, and then to cooking. "I got a cookbook
once," said the first bachelor, "but I couldn't do anything with it."

"Too much fancy stuff in it, huh?" asked his friend.

"You said it!" the first guy replied, nodding. "Every one of those
recipes began the same way: 'Take a clean plate...'"