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McCarty Hall Student Cookbook

**For those of you studying and living in residence here in McCarty Hall, University of Washington, Seattle campus, management would like to remind you that cooking in the dorm rooms is strictly forbidden. Students are allowed a coffee maker or kettle for hot beverages and a small microwave oven to reheat meals. If a student is found with a hotplate or induction cooker they will be fined and possibly expelled.**

McCarty Hall student private message board, subheading room recipes.

Big Mac here, thank you ladies for sharing all your recipes on this board. Now that we are quarantined due to that nasty as shit virus going around, my roommates, Edward and Jasper have asked me to share my gourmet recipe with all of you. It's not fair to keep all this deliciousness to myself anymore. So, here it goes, from the guys in 237, just beside the bike storage room, we present the ultimate in college cuisine!

Wiener Water Soup

And a week's worth of good eats

Serves one, double or triple the recipe as needed, or just for you if you hate your roommates.

Ingredients:

a package of twelve hot dogs, flavor and brand your choice

a package of ten hot dog buns, again style and brand your choice.

as many packets of ketchup, mustard and relish as you can steal without getting caught.

Equipment needed: one electric kettle

Days one through five, boil two hot dogs in your kettle for three minutes and enjoy with fresh buns and condiments of your choice. Try it spicy if you can scam some hot sauce, or give it an Asian flare with some soy sauce, bonus if you can get some wasabi paste. Brilliant shit, that.

Very important - and I can NOT stress this enough - DON'T throw away the water in your kettle. Add more if you have to, but save it. This step is crucial.

Now day six is a little bleak because by now you have run out of buns but now is the time to make it a little fancy - cut your boiled dogs into little coins and eat them with toothpicks. It's just like being back at grandma's house with the weird tray of stabbed pickles and olives she always serves before dinner. Use lots of condiments for dipping.

We have reached the best day of the week, it's wiener water soup time. Your kettle full of wiener water is now your best friend. It's full of hot doggy goodness. If you have it, add a pack of ramen noodles to the broth but if not, load that baby up with ketchup or mustard and enjoy the best soup you have ever tasted.

There we have it ladies, Emmett McCarty's wonder meal recipe. You can thank me with lots of titty pics until we are allowed to be in closer contact again.

Enjoy your quarantine.

Peace out!

Thank you for reading and please don't cook this disgusting thing. There are real, proper Wiener Water Soup recipes out there, maybe try one of those instead if you have to.