— Here we are again. This always happens. Who’s going to go first this time?
— Not me.
— Me neither.
— Hey – where’s Dominic?
— Oh, he had to stay home to work on some really important papers.
— But he’s a welder. What papers could be possibly be working on?
— You know, important ones.
— Well, I think he’s just making any excuse not to join us for our weekly fondue party.
— Surely not!
— We all made an effort to be here. It’s the least he could do.
— Maybe it was the hot curried salad from last time. It didn’t agree with him.
— It didn’t agree with any of us, but we still forced it down.
— At least I’ve dunked mine.
— Go ahead and eat it then.
— I’ll wait for you guys, then we can all taste it together.
— Dominic had the right idea, if you ask me.
— That’s not nice! If you’re going to be like that, then we shan’t continue with our fondues, which will be such a shame since we bought all of this fondue equipment.
— OK: everyone, on the count of three . . .
Hershey’s Chocolate and Cocoa Cookbook, Ideals Publishing Corp., 1982
