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take 1 part Ayn Rand

add 2 parts NPR
and filter through food personality Lynne Rosseto Kasper.
Allow mixture to set.

Yield: one crazy-ass cupcake.

17 Replies to “take 1 part Ayn Rand”

  1. Hmmm. I haven’t had to make dick-taters since I got married. Good for me, I think, since that one time I got that horrible burn…and if I forgot to re-label the sour cream? My roommates would get pissed

  2. DarthRove says:

    Well, I did hear somewhere that freedom is slavery.

  3. LTC John says:

    Who better qualified to make such judgments than a food personality? Well, besides actor or musician, that is…

  4. happyfeet says:

    cupcakes that eschew nuance, they’re still cupcakes you know… cupcakes are just as much about cake-to-icing ratios and texture/mouthfeel concerns as they are about flavor I think, and chocolate cupcakes, while, yes, predominantly chockity, are chocolate cupcakes, what someone made… and for so you can eat them!

    I don’t understand the question.

  5. JHo says:

    That’s why I love ‘feets.

  6. Bilwick says:

    I guess she’s against dictators because she’s so devoted to individual liberty. You know, NPR being such a hot-bed of individualism.

    But seriously . . .

    It’s interesting to me that my built-in “liberal” detector is on the ball once again. The local public radio station here used to be mainly classical music but apparently a while back there was a war between the “conservatives” (the ones who wore Kerry-for-president t-shirts) and the “progressives” (the ones who wear Che t-shirts). The latter wanted less “elitist” music and more “consciousness-raising.” They won. “The Splendid Table” is one of several talk shows that have replaced the classical-music programming, and sometimes when I’ve heard it–although all she was doing was discussing food–I’ve felt a strong visceral dislike for this woman, and a feeling–going beyond the mere fact that she’s an NPR employee–“She’s gotta be a ‘liberal.'” Nice to know my one super-power is still working.

  7. guinsPen says:

    Fuck feets.

  8. geoffb says:

    “She was the person who believed that the individual stands above society. The individual is the focus as opposed to the decisions made by many… Dishes that have very strong statements of a single flavor as opposed to lots of nuance, you know, quiet things coming together. In so many words, dishes that are about dictatorships as opposed to democracies. What do you think? I don’t know that people would get it. ”

    “But we would have fun explaining it to them, thank you, thank you, that’s a splendid idea.”

    Talk “Smart”, Think “Smart”, Eat “Smart”, Explain “Smart”, to all the ones to dumb to be “Smart”. “Smart [foodie] Power”. A “Splendid Idea”™.

  9. Jeff G. says:

    You aren’t a snowflake. You are part of slush.

    Now. Enjoy this delightfully-wrought group-boiled potato!

  10. Jeff G. says:

    Individualism = dictatorship.

    Yes. That’s where she went.

    Here’s one can of chicken broth that is about a half cup short of a quart.

  11. John Bradley says:

    Well, I’m sure Hitler and Stalin thought of themselves as individuals, possesed of free will and whatnot… they just weren’t so big on letting anyone else do the whole individualism thing.

  12. serr8d says:

    OT, but we should all chip in and buy ‘feets this, the hottest-selling NFL rookie jersey.

    I might buy one myself. For the lulz.

  13. ClinicallyCynical says:

    Too bad this splendid person was forced to take this job. I bet she seethes all the way to the studio knowing she must spout the party line of how she had an idea and decided to follow up on it and voila some new recipe is now available for other people to use or not. It’s a fucking racket.

    My advice, face your doom woman. Stride into that Whole Foods, bite your tongue and fill up that trolley with organic goods because the local underground is coming for dinner to discuss how bad it is to live under such a dictatorship…pass the chateau neuf du pape.

  14. kasper says:

    Years ago NPR voices started giving me the creeps. Wish they’d just play music — no talking.

  15. happyfeet says:

    gack

  16. B Moe says:

    Here you go.

  17. Andrew the Noisy says:

    Ayn Rand is a bit of a lightning rod, isn’t she? Kinda like Sarah Palin, albeit with a uterus scrubbed absolutely clean of any of that gross fecundity.

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