Years before, he was shipwrecked with his wife and another man, and his wife died. The other man fed him meat he swore was albatross. One spoonful of the real thing tells him it wasn’t.
A man walks into a restaurant by the sea and orders the albatross soup. He takes one spoonful, puts the spoon down, and the colour drains out of his face. Why?
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He has eaten “albatross” before, a long way from any restaurant.
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He realises he once ate his wife
Source: Traditional, from Jed Hartman’s list of situation puzzles