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Humour

Restaurant Metaphysics

Mark Leech on causality and coffee.

“Why is it so hard to make a cup of coffee?”

It had not been a good night in the Empirical Eatery. Sir Isaac Newton, a guest of some importance it had to be said, had chosen to come on the new chef’s first night. The encounter had not been a pleasant one. Everything had been undercooked, and in one case - the chicken that had run off into the night - not cooked at all. George Berkeley, supporting his philosophical earnings with a spot of part time waiting on, had been worried since the first course when he had seen the cold vegetables arranged on the plate in the pattern of billiard balls.

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