Warning : May contain more than your daily recommended allowance of randomness
This week’s caption contest may be late, but at least it’s here. It shows a person in a chicken costume offering food to a man playing an accordion. As usual, I have no idea what’s supposed to be going on here, so just make something up.
(To see our other caption contests, click on the “Say What?” category in the sidebar.)
I’ve tried my best to not hear about the whole Royal Wedding celebrity real-life soap opera. I really do not care, and I figure many of my regular readers don’t either. I wasn’t planning to write anything about it, even if it might bring in more traffic. (I’m not selling-out, if you’re wondering.) But I did happen across an angle to the story that includes bacon, which does interest my readers. Curious? Read on.
Pippa Middleton, sister of Princess Kate Middleton, has created controversy by wanting to change the royal wedding reception traditions. They normally serve champagne and some dish that I don’t know how to spell, but she wants to have a disco ball and serve bacon sandwiches. She is a part-time party planner, so she does have some experience. Plus, how can you go wrong with bacon sandwiches? (I should’ve had those at my wedding!*) I don’t know if she was successful on her quest — I’d guess not, since they probably serve only fancy food with foreign names. I’m sure I could find it online, but again, I don’t care enough to look. What they ate is their business, though it could’ve been even better with bacon.
* So why did I not have a buffet of bacon at my wedding? It would’ve been one of the best wedding receptions ever! (If you’re married you may already know the answer.) Well, it wasn’t my day, and I didn’t plan that stuff, nor would it have been “appropriate” — there’s something about traditions and what’s normal. I don’t know about all that stuff… Being the guy, I just put on a tux and showed up. It is her day, after all. I have lots of ideas to make a wedding ceremony and reception much more awesome, but they’re not “storybook” type things. They would be worth writing a story about, perhaps, but they didn’t fit into my wife’s storybook. I let her have her day. It’s one of those compromises you make in a relationship. Since, I’ve hosted numerous “Buffet o’ Bacon” outings, and there are more to come. (They are all documented on this blog, if you want to search for them.) My wife had her day, so I’m having mine. And to be “fair”, I figure I can have a few hundred of my outings before I catch up with the cost of her very special day. 🙂
The Buffet o’ Blog staff (with some very special guests) visited Denny’s last week to research their Baconalia promotion. The food was good — I had a bacon chipotle chicken dish, which was tasty, and the bacon dish featuring 6 strips of bacon (3 types) also received good review. Another guy tried the bacon meatloaf, but said it didn’t have enough bacon and wasn’t a hit. The most unusual thing on the special bacon menu was a bacon sundae with vanilla ice cream and maple syrup (which no one tested, sadly). Another trip may be warranted for further research, as I have since read that the Maple Bacon Sundae is the best new item, and I am curious to try it.
Denny’s even printed special menus that look like giant strips of bacon, which is awesome. I asked the waitress if we could get bacon that large, but unfortunately they were not pictured actual size. I realize there may be logistical reasons why not, but this is America, so why can’t we supersize our bacon?!? 🙂
More restaurants should use bacon to promote their food as well as using more bacon in their food. Imagine the increased business if they advertised that all dishes come with 50% more bacon! Or if you could add bacon to anything. I think we’re on to something here…
Recently I came across YouTube video clips of a live-action Japanese Spiderman TV show from the ’70s. This is something to see… prepare to be surprised, even if you know quite a bit about Spiderman.
If you watched the video, you might’ve noticed it was from 1978 and it featured a giant live-action transforming robot. How long did it take before America got transforming robots? Something like 1984, wasn’t it? The Japanese have been ahead of us for a while on cartoons and sci-fi technology.
According to this other video (with a different theme song, one you may be more familiar with), Spiderman has a flying car (the Spider Machine GP-7), and the giant transforming robot is named Leopardon and belongs to Spiderman. The song says he has radioactive blood, and he wears some type of mechanical device on one of his wrists. I’m really curious about the story now…
On a related note, someone took clips from the Japanese Spiderman TV show and made a compilation video, adding NES-style music from Mega Man. (NES = the original Nintendo system, in case you didn’t know.)
Spiderman’s pre-fight antics look amusing, plus his voice in Japanese is awesome (“SPYDA!”). I’m gonna have to watch one of those episodes sometime…
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