wrote:
> Just found this.
>
> http://www.dailynews724.com/entertai...ls-h93143.html
>
> From the first half:
>
> ...So the she rides her bike up and down the block, carrying on an
> internal conversation with her imaginary friend Laura Ingalls who has come
> to the 1970s from the 1870s to visit and see the future. And our little
> girl is explaining something about the t-shirt to Laura Ingalls right
> now, so let's hop into the Foodiness Time Machine and drop in and listen:
>
> "Well Laura, girls today don't have to wear long calico dresses and
> bonnets, we can wear fake printed denim complete with fake patches and
> sneakers from a discount store and t-shirts. What's a t-shirt? It's
> what I'm wearing. What do the words on it mean? Well Laura, this
> t-shirt is printed with the three most important, defining words of
> late '70s America. No, not impeach Richard Nixon, no, not Sex, Drugs
> and Rock and Roll, anyway that's four, no this shirt says 'Leggo my Eggo.'
> What's an Eggo? Oh Laura, you guys from 100 years ago are really
> primitive. An Eggo is a waffle! From the freezer! It's like the root
> cellar but a lot colder. And no, my Ma doesn't make waffles in a cast
> iron waffle maker over the cookstove like yours... this is the future,
> we pull them out of the freezer and cook them in the toaster! And then
> we pour flavored, colored corn syrup all over them and eat them before
> school! And if someone tries to grab your toasted waffle out of your
> sticky paw, you shout 'Leggo My Eggo!' And the Eggo people will send
> you this very t-shirt for only 3 box-tops and 50 cents! And its mine!
> All mine! And I love it!"

if I were a voting member, I would vote for more of this and less of
which birds fly where

not sure how I'd vote on Bryan's literary efforts but at least it
has some entertainment value


> Later on:
>
> ...I don't even really get the idea of eating pancakes or waffles,
> since they're basically just cake. I mean, what's cake? Flour, butter,
> eggs, sugar, baking powder, milk. Pancakes? Same. Waffles? Same. If you
> were a farmer or a field hand, a lumberjack or a cowboy, a blacksmith
> or a maple sugar guy, or even Amish, I'd get the need for a 1,000 calorie
> pile of flour and sugar for breakfast. You had work to do. But we
> consultants and social media analysts and insurance salesmen and radio
> hosts, not so much...
>
> (snip)
>
>
>
> Lenona.


I side with the anti pancake/waffle group. I would rather have eggs
benedict, or a bagel ... or any number of things actually.