On 1/21/2015 6:00 PM, tert in seattle wrote:
> 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.

My preference, as far as breakfast pastries, would be crumpets or
bagels, but sometimes, you just want a Belgian waffle. Lucky for me, I
do not want them very often.

I made pancakes, waffles, cinnamon rolls and sopapillas fairly often
when my children were teenagers, they were skinny kids and I tried to
put some meat on their bones, but as it turns out, they are just thin.

Becca