To the most precious people out there, moms, thank you.
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Food Battles
March 8, 2011 By
Anyone who has read these pages over the last while should be aware of my distaste for Vegemite. I’m not alone.
Hosting the [Australian] Prime Minister on a visit to the Wakefield High School, in Virginia, the most-powerful man in the world had a clear message about Vegemite – the sandwich filling that is part of the average Australian childhood.
Vegemite was, Mr Obama declared, “horrible”.
Referring to Vegemite as “horrible” is being kind to that vile stuff masquerading as food. What is interesting though, is how children can be taught to love any type of food…usually. It simply needs to be introduced at an early enough age and have it become part of their regular routine. My daughter was taught from her Mexican mom to enjoy her corn on the cob covered with mayonnaise, Parmesan cheese and a light sprinkling of chili powder – a combo of ingredients which literally turns my stomach. But she loves it.
I’m not sure I have any odd food likes. The closest thing I can think of is roasted chestnuts, an Italian Christmas-time delicacy. Most non-Italians I know can’t understand why anyone could enjoy eating chestnuts whose taste they describe as bland. OK, I get that. I imagine it’s for the same reason that Scots enjoy their haggis, Jews eat their gefilte fish and, yes, Australians munch away on Vegemite toast.
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Politics Break – Suitcase Packing 101
February 22, 2011 By
When I grow up, I hope to be able to pack a suitcase half as well as this guy…but I wouldn’t bet on it. Packing (along with cutting grass and painting) rank high on my Stuff I Hate To Do list.
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A Dog’s Breakfast
February 7, 2011 By
This is either genius or wackiness. I’m thinking genius.
Two Brooklyn dog-food purveyors with steel traps for stomachs have vowed to wolf down their Fido formula for a month to prove it’s a bona-fide hit.
Hanna Mandelbaum, 30, and Alison Wiener, 38, created Evermore Pet Food a year ago, promising home-cooked meals from whole-food, healthy ingredients.
Come March 1, the Red Hook residents will put their mouths where their money is and eat it for at least one of their meals each day.
How brilliant is that? The free publicity alone is worth a zillion dollars. They got their names in the news and on March 1 the cameras will roll as they chow down their first gulp-full of dog food. And of course the video will go viral on youTube.
Also, as a former dog owner, I know that I would happily have purchased a reasonably priced dog food for my pooch (his name was Gypsy, a purebred Lhasa Apso) which I believed was safe for human consumption. As I said, pure genius.
I might even consider eating a post a day beginning March 1 if I knew it’d get me half as much publicity as this stunt will get Evermore Pet Food.
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The Real State of the Union
January 26, 2011 By
The folks over at pleated-jeans.com had some fun putting this map together.
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Are the good folks in Washington state and farm animals really that close? And what’s the deal with Utah and porn?
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