“How did your soup turn out?”
“The soup is nonexistent,” Torrey snaps, “because who on earth has bone broth sitting around the house?”
“We’ll find you a list of substitutes you can use when cooking,” Lesley smiles.
“The websites I found say if you don’t have bone broth, you can substitute gelatin, and if you don’t have gelatin, you can substitute agar agar, whatever that is,” Torrey replies. “What’s the point of a substitute list, when I’m even less likely to have the substitute than the real ingredient?”
Every week, Ivy at Uncharted hosts the Six Sentence Stories flash fiction linkup and blog hop. This week’s cue was “substitute.” Fun sixes from other authors are at the link. Join us!
99 Monkeys 
“Agar, agar”
I know that one!! lol I trust that refers to the same ‘nutrient agar’ that took high school biology out of the text books and into the approaching-cool-experiments world.
(for the record, when the assignment came to get something to grow in the petri dish of nutrient agar, I went home and convinced out dog to like the clear rubbery surface. got a B+)
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I hate when that happens! Sometimes the substitutes are indeed stranger than the original.
Meanwhile, my story’s got a character who might be able to help you with that bone broth.. 😀
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Cannibalism team-write. 😂
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😀
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I saw this late! Sorry. Nice job
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Thanks!
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