True story… I use to eat my bologna sandwiches with chocolate pudding on them so I didn’t have to eat my sandwich *then* eat my dessert. Hey, I was 10 years old. Also, I have no sense of smell what-so-ever (birth defect of nerve damage in olfactory senses) so I have a limited taste palette, so it was fine with me…
Love Jeff’s I-Chinexican combo platter. I often mix leftovers into one giant meal and eat what the rest of the family won’t (what is it with leftovers that kids won’t touch them?). I’ve been known to mix about 5 nearly-empty boxes of cereal together and finish them off that way. Cap’n Crunch, Rice Krispies and Coco-Puffs make a helluva a combo in the morning!
Bonus Friday! Weird Al and an Oscar Mayer commercial!
Weird Al recorded a demo version of “My Bologna” in his college radio station’s bathroom (no doubt while sitting on the crapper like Jeff did the other day) and was released as a single in December of 1979, thus just making it eligible under my comic title rules.
The reason for the commercial is around this date in 1955 is the first time Oscar Mayer used the jingle in commercials, so it’s been around longer then me! Not much has been…
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Very odd, my hood friend has no sense of smell due to a birth defect.
This also meant his place always smells weird, but he doesn’t seem to ever care! Haha
It has it’s ups and downs… One, I’m great at changing stinky diapers as I can’t smell them at all. But, I miss out on all the good things to like food and stuff. So, it’s double edged sword.
Having never had a sense of smell, I don’t know what I’m missing, so that’s a plus too.
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KFC and wasabi. Awesome. Trust me on this.
Actually, I can see that being really good… Love friend chicken and the wasabi adds in that extra kick.
Nice!
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It *is* really good! I discovered it by chance (a gathering of friends-and, lunch was meant to be a sushi-fest but one of the party had no truck with ‘foreign food’ so we also provided a bucket of K-Fuck, and a sudden inspiration occurred to me) and had it again last week for the first time in five years.
I love KFC on principle – at least the actual chicken pieces are likely to be actual chicken! – but yes, once every five years is about the right frequency for eating it 😀
I’m possibly the only commenter on 1977 who has no clue about the various fastfood stuff you discuss. I did have a bite of a Macca’s once, just to suck and see, but then I spat it out. Eww, how can people eat that…that…um…product? (Can’t really dignify it with the word ‘food’…) I also don’t understand chips (‘fries’ to you Yoosayans), or crisps (‘chips’ – damn, it gets confusing, especially in Australia where they’re referred to by both names!), or fried foods in general apart from stir-fry. My idea of fast food is sushi, yakitori skewers, or a piece of roast chicken still hot from the charcoal grill 🙂
once again, it goes back to my theory that wasabi is simply good on everything. 😀
i never tried it on KFC and never will since i’ve been a vegetarian for quite some time now (about 15 years and change), but that sounds like it’d be awesome.
–dee!
~laughs~ Ah, so you’re not my evil twin so much as my mirror-universe twin – I *stopped* being vegetarian about 15 years ago 😀
How ironic… I ate a vegetarian 15 years ago…
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Mmm, braaaaainnnnssss… 😛
oh ho!
it all suddenly makes sense now … 😀 i’m bizarro-you! har!
Yes! Bizarro No. 1, of course…
They both sound good. LOL
Well, where do you think I got the idea from… I eat anything.
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My worst offense as a child was raw hot dogs washed down with Orange Crush. Too lazy to boil water or too impatient to wait? The microwave was one of my favorite inventions.
My olfactory sense is quite highly developed. Trust me, that isn’t always a blessing. Air freshener smells horrible to me. I actually prefer skunk.
Technically, unheated hot dogs.
I will take a “raw” hot-dog, wrap around it a slice of American cheese (the fake kind is the best) and just slam it on down. Great little snack.
I had a roommate in college who insisted that donuts were “raw” unless you heated them up before eating. What?! He would stick all of his donuts from the store in the oven then eat them. What a loon. “Never seen raw dough before? It’s not fluffy like this donut you’re about to burn the hell out of… ”
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Onion and tomato sandwiches. Get a walla walla sweet onion out of the field and a beefeater tomato out of the garden. cut the onion thin and the tomato thick, add a little mayo. Best sandwich ever.
Now, I’ve had that kind of sandwich and it is good! The great part of not having a super sensitive sense of taste is I can eat just about anything and not know the difference.
I have the basic tastes of the tongue… sweet and sour… but everything else is for naught.
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I’ll have to go back to the well on this subject and bring up some of the weird things we used to make/do at DQ. Weirdest items I ever ate while there was:
1. Deep Fried Grasshopper (delicacy in some countries, so guess I’m not alone on that one)
2. Pinto Bean Blizzard
3. Nacho Cheese Blizzard
4. Chocolate covered hamburger (the dilly bar chocolate, the kind that hardens quickly) first bite was good, then after that it was pretty hard to swallow.
Don’t worry folks, we never fed these items to the general public, these were always for our own consumption.
Hmmm…. Dilly Bar Hamburger sounds good to me… 🙂
hahahahaahahhahha!
we totally used to do that kind of thing occasionally at our dairy queen too!
one time, there was this incredibly unruly customer that used to come in and bother us, and ask us to make a shake over and over again because he didn’t like the consistency or something.
one day, he came up the drive thru. i made an ordinary strawberry shake for the guy, but added something really special at the bottom after i mixed it — SOME JALAPENOS.
he never came back.
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also made a chili sunday once, but not for a customer. i did it on a dare. and it actually wasn’t bad.
–dee!
Oh and Thanks for the Weird Al jams today. I believe, and correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t that when he was being played on the Doctor Demento hour that the song was first released. I Love Weird Al’s stuff, especially the things he did in the 80’s, very creative guy. Another great food song by his is “I Love Rocky Road”.
I enjoy a lot of his stuff, but I can only take it in small doses. “Fat” was a great video. The “Hardware Store” song is a damn good song and amazing how many words he can squeeze into a 4 minute song…
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It’s All About the Pentiums, Too Much Jerry Springer, Amish Paradise, eBay, Couch Potato, Bob…oh all right, the entire Poodle Hat album is amazing.
Personally, I get bored very quickly with his food-centric songs (apart from Eat It), but there’s no denying his genius as a parodist. In fact he’s the only person out there I’ve ever known of who’s as good a parodist as I am. No, really. It amazes me that so many people heap praise upon the like of the oh so incompetent ‘great’ Luke Ski; he definitely deserves to have *something* heaped on him, but praise it ain’t 😛
what kinda chip you got in there, a dorito? 😀
i have several “weird al” days every year where i just listen to his entire catalog back-to-back. great stuff.
if yer parody stuff is half as funny as “tights that i’ve shat in”, well then, record an LP of it and then tell me where to buy it. 😀
–dee!
Ohhh yeahh. I think …Pentiums might just be Weird Al’s finest hour, lyrics-wise (though in some ways it’s a dead heat with the awesome BoB. After all, a Toyota’s a Toyota…).
Look at it this way: I’m no less a parodist than the awesome Kevin Wald, whose Gilbert & Sullivan versus Xena is perhaps the most flawless *and* most erudite parody ever: http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/filk/xena.htm – there’s more of his stuff at http://www.math.uchicago.edu/~wald/lit/ but it’s not in the same class as Heroine Barbarian.
The trick with parody – the thing that almost all so-called filkers miss by an astronomical unit or two – is that the rhythm and meter of the original *must* be kept at all times, and whenever possible, the original rhyme scheme as well, plus frequent nods to the source material’s lyric *structure*. Bloody obvious, you’d think, but I’ve lost track of the times people have pointed me enthusiastically at this or that parodist/filker and I’ve been moved to rabid mouth-foaming by the epic fail of their efforts 🙁
Did I ever mention, the previous time we touched on this subject, Totally Pissed at the Bar? – written during a 15-minute break between sets at a residency in Limerick, and since sung at various parties all over Munster and beyond. Available on request. Be warned though, it’s in Irish/UK English, so some of the gag phrases might be lost in translation 😛
As far as recordings, ain’t likely to happen. My studio days are long behind me. These days I commit editing and journalism. And literature, gawdzelpus 😀
Hmm. I just made a long answer, with the result of ‘your comment is awaiting moderation’. I think this is the sort of thing Byron wants us to do in the blog section, muhahahahaha…
bummer, man.
i’m not even sure where it would go under the blog page, since a reply to the subject we’re off on a thread discussing here has nothing to do with anything on the blog page… but still relevant to the weird al discussion…
get ta moderatin’, byron! 😀
Done and Done.
You can chat all you want here, it just only goes to 5 levels before it stops (looks funky after 5). And the reason your comment was “queued” was it had two links in it. The spam feature of the site automatically holds any comments with two or more links in it. Length does not matter… so I’ve heard…
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a dog, a panic, in a pagoda!
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good shit.
bob is probably one of al’s crowning achievements … when i heard it, i thought “man, its about time someone took the piss outta bob dylan!” … 😀 and its definitely done “right”. hilarious.
there’s an accompanying video for it too if you haven’t seen it. parodies the “subterranean homesick blues” ‘video’ to a T.
i agree with you about the parody tricks. its all about the syllabic rhythm. 😀
yes, you did mention totally pissed… sounds like i’m never going to get to hear that tho… :/ i imagine yer pratchett followers are bummed that they’ll never get a record either …
you should totally get my contact info from byron. bug him. a lot. 😀
–dee!
How come you stopped eating Bologna and Pudding sandwiches??
LOL! Actually talking about has me yearning for chocolate baloney sandwich… and may get one this weekend. If I do, I’ll blog post it.
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I once ate sandwiches with cheese and chocolate paste.
Chocolate makes everything better… that’s the beauty of it!
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so does bacon. 😀
one of the few things i miss since becoming a vegetarian. bacon on everything. yehhhh, buddy.
Do not take this the wrong way, but I have never understood being a vegetarian. Yes, having been raised on a beef farm has influenced me, but the sheer benefits of *proper* meat consumption can’t be ignored. (Please note the heavy emphasis on *proper*!)
I was raised on beef liver, as well as other cuts from the cow, and because of the content of beef liver, it has raised my red blood cell count over all. I fight off most infections much better and I rarely get a cold or flu. I heal really fast too.
My step-grandfather ate eggs, bacon, biscuits and white gravy for breakfast every day, with butter and salt to boot. The man lived a very long time as he was active and burned the fat he consumed off. That is the major difference in our society today. Instead of working the corn fields, I’m working a keyboard. Does not help burn off the fat I’ve consumed today, now does it? 🙂
I know of the many benefits of being a vegetarian too, but it just seems we are carnivores by design and becoming a leaf eater sorta is just flipping Mother Nature off and I have a tendency to go with the flow.
Now, eating crap from any fast food joint is not proper meat, that is a given. But every year we have a side of beef butchered and freshly frozen from a farmer friend downstate and the meat is just to die for. It is cheaper in the long run and lasts forever.
I know I’m not converting you here, just putting out my 2-cents. I am an old fart stuck in his evil ways, so take this with a grain of salt.
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yes, byron. you’ve offended me so badly that i hate you and all that yer comic stands for.
and if you believe that…
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man, i didn’t quit eating meat for fluffy reasons…i did it because of digestive reasons. i’ll tell you the story in private sometime relatively soon but it wasn’t because of the usual peta reasons that people usually adopt when adjusting their eating habits in such a radical way (and then subsequently drop a year later when someone waves a double double or some sort of crazy-ass bacon and mushroom burger or a delicious porter with some eye-peeling horseradish on the side under their noses)…
its not always a case of giving mother nature the bird, sometimes its mother nature steppin’ in and saying “hey man, that’s just not for you”.
–dee!
Yes
Chocolate doesnt mix with meat.
i remember that commercial from when i was a kid heh good times
Yeah, the commercial was cute the first few hundred times you saw it, then you just wanted to shoot the little bastard… who today is probably like 40-something.
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I’m still trying to comprehend banana and mayo sandwiches, but people say they’re good.
Didn’t Elvis eat fried peanut butter & banana sandwiches? FRIED peanut butter & bananas? Now, I gotta try that.
They say Twinkies deep fried are really good too. At NASCAR tracks they serve fried bologna sandwiches, and that sounds great!
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Two weirdest things I’ve ever eaten in my life: 1)Blueberry Muffin with Cheese Whiz. 2)Peanut Butter and Candy Cane Chocolate Ice Cream in a sandwhich. As I recall they both tasted pretty awesome.