Hola, Sneakers! Welcome to the show that never seems.
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This week on the show: big ideas; drunkiness; sunstroke nation; bitten fingers; complicated blackmail; mustangs and empathy; scamps; revolving you; a little Shazam tease; Jamaiquaman; go for it, DC; where DC works; careless whispers from the universe; our Question of the Week and Sneakers respond. Scooby-Doo and the Addams Family; things to do in New York; speaking of Popeye; no butterscotch, please; European breakfast; fresh-squeezed apples; family breakfast; cucumber advocate; peanut butter and ants; and, finally, extra texture.
This week’s Question of the Week: What is your forbidden flavour?
Sub-question: What do you have for breakfast?
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POPEYES ROADTRIP!
Though, Downlow Chicken Shack on Commercial Drive is supposed to be very good too…
Siding with both:
Ian, peanut butter sandwiches are for lunch, not breakfast.
David, Werther’s Originals tastes EXTREMELY butterscotchy.
Dave, I know where you’re going with the drunk thing. If you’re drinking, you’re affected by the alcohol, even if you’ve only had a small one. It’s changing the way you think. As a socially-awkward person, I’ve never seen how the addition of ‘drunk’ to that can improve my social skills. I’ve never known anyone I only liked when they’d been drinking, either.
I love butterscotch, sarsaparilla and black jelly beans. Probably not all at once though. I don’t like the lolly bananas – do you have them there? In Australia we take the same chalky stuff, make it harder and pink, then flavour it with perfume and call them ‘musk sticks’. Mind you, our national flavour is Vegemite, so we clearly have weird tastes…
My forbidden flavour has always been honey – just the smell makes me gag. I don’t mind it as a flavouring in cooking, but the idea of spreading it on bread or putting it on your porridge – yuck.
Being brought up on Enid Blyton stories made it a big disappointment, as she made honey sound like the nectar of the gods. Unfortunately, my mother was a bit “earth-mother” when I was growing up, and honey was the miracle cure for everything. I learned not to let on if I had a sore throat, as her home remedy was a minced clove of raw garlic mixed into a teaspoon of honey. There’s no short-cut there – either you ate it slowly and had the revolting taste, or you swallowed it in one gulp and had the garlic burn all the way down as the lump of honey stuck to your oesophagus and slowly slid to your stomach… It doesn’t help the sore throat, either.
Breakfast for me is Weet-bix – are they pretty universal? Similar to Weetabix in the UK. With some bran and rolled oats, and cold milk. Can’t handle the idea of warm milk on cereal, although my wife does that in the winter.
I don’t like the flavour of melons. I can’t stand cantaloupe and for me a honeydew is a honey DON’T.
My forbidden flavor is hazelnut. I love it too much. I can eat a bag, box, package, quart or imperial gallon of anything with a hazelnut flavor. But, the fat content of such products that include it is off the charts! My father grew up in a section of the coal mining region of Eastern Pennsylvania where apparently hazelnut was a go-to flavor in many local homemade products and recipes. (The name of the largest nearby town is Hazelton.) He shared his love of hazelnuts with me, and I became addicted, so I limit my consumption. For example, no more than one jar of Nutella per week for me. Actually, no jars, because I’m on the hazelnut wagon, and it is verboten!
Addams Family all the way! Far better than The Munsters (But I did kind of like Eddie’s pet dragon, Spot that lived under the stairs). Something about that harpsichord score and the ongoing stream of relatives visiting that attracted me to the Addams Family. Ian mentioned Vic Mizzy who did the music for the show, which I loved. A co-worker found this one day and shared it with me, it’s Gomez’s Theme by Mizzy (Who also did the music for The Ghost & Mr. Chicken):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6PkUUUtscQ
I was in New York about eight years ago and we were staying in Times Square. Every time I came down to the street level, I saw this huge poster advertising The Addams Family on Broadway. I didn’t have time to see it but I would have loved to have seen it, it starred Nathan Lane as Gomez and Bebe Neuwirth as Morticia which sounds like great casting especially for Broadway. Dave, I highly recommend visiting New York City, it’s everything you think it should be. I was there for work, so my time was limited and Central Park was snowed over. What I did do was walk 69 blocks from Times Square to Carnegie Hill so I could pay homage to the Marx Brothers’ childhood home at 179 East 93rd Street. That was number one on my list which also included a visit to Midtown Comics.
https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/the-marx-brothers-yorkville-tenement-home/
We had Pancakes on the weekends for breakfast too! My Dad made them until my younger brother was old enough to cook…and he made chocolate chip pancakes. There was many a Sunday morning that Dad went out for doughnuts, typically on Sundays where we had already attended Mass on Saturday which made time for doughnuts.
Forbidden flavor would have to be anything with artificial fruit flavoring…like peach for example. I do enjoy peaches and if I want to taste a peach, I’ll eat one for real, not some phony flavoring. A runner up would be drinking orange juice AFTER you brush your teeth. Echhh!!
Great show guys, I love you both!!