WHAT'S COOKING?

What’s so funny about this? This is a pretty corny pun that was even cornier in its original format which used a lot of British English. I’ve taken the liberty to modify it and to highlight the difference between British and American English. Two words which I never used as a kid have come into vogue, or usage, in the last twenty years, at least in the north-eastern US and probably on the west coast; in the Midwest, south and southwest, not so much, I’m guessing. These two words are venue and queue. They are much more common in British English. In my youth I had the opportunity to live with some English volunteers when I was in the Peace Corps. This was how I discovered the differences in the very same English language we are all supposed to speak. A venue is a place where a performance of some sort has taken place or will take place. A queue is the row of people standing in wait to gain admission to the venue. In American English we generally prefer to say that someone is waiting on o