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Ubiquitous > wrote:
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> > Ubiquitous > wrote:
> >> wrote:
> >> > (Ubiquitous) wrote:
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> >> >> Did SLop desecrate books again for the tablerape portion of the show?
> >> >> Once again, I was only paying half attention and thought she had a
> >> >> notepad with a sentence on it that was to be passed to your left after
> >> >> adding a sentence and read aloud when after it completed the circuit.
> >> >> Was this "book club" perchance her future nieces' Scholastic Book Club?
> >> >
> >> >Oh, God, the favors. She had books with inspirational sayings on the
> >> >inside (she made a big deal about this, lest you buy book with the text
> >> >on the outside) and then she ripped pages out of bigger books and
> >> >highlighted random words in yellow, and then all the girl were to make
> >> >up a story using her highlighted words, going round robin around the
> >> >table.
> >>
> >> Grrr... what does that stupid **** have against books?
> >
> >Not to mention her guests.
>
> Assuming people actually show up at her parties...
I don't mind shows where there is no claim that people are actually
going to eat the food being prepared. I don't mind shows where the cook
is making the food for people, either friends or family, and the end of
the show has family or friends actually eating the food. I don't care
if it is just 30 seconds, it brings the show full circle to completion.
Giada does this sometimes, and I like it. I don't like it, though, when
the cook claims to be cooking the food to be eaten by family or friends,
and then the show ends with nobody eating the food. That's Sandra Lee.
She sometimes tastes the food herself while cooking, but nobody else
ever eats it, during the show or at the end. Of course, she *always*
tastes her alcoholic drinks. Quality control counts there. There
doesn't even seem to be room on her tablescapes for the food, although
certainly somebody could haul the plates Into the kitchen and plate the
food there. Still, if I had to sit at one of those tablescapes, it's
possible that I would lose my appetite. Sandra Lee sometimes has
relatives there, but they don't taste. Her sister Kimmy was there once,
her niece Stephanie was there once and Brycer has been there more than
once (I seldom watch the show, only when I feel like some comedy, so
they may have actually appeared many more times). Stephanie and Brycer
were there with friends, although they were invisible. Stephanie was
there for a sleepover with her invisible friends, and Aunt Sandy was
making breakfast for them. Aunt Sandy made a big point that the *two*
dishes that she made with frozen "hash brown" potato bits would contain
no ketchup, and no ketchup would be served with them. She didn't
explain why ketchup was so horrible for kids, but I assumed it was the
large amount of sugar in them (my open bottle of ketchup says 4g of
sugars per tablespoon). No ketchup for those kids! A few minutes
later, Aunt Sandy is making deep fried chicken fingers. Doesn't sound
like a traditional breakfast, but kids don't care. She makes a dipping
sauce of half mustard and half honey. Hello? Doesn't she know that
honey has sugar in it? Well, many kids that age don't like mustard
anyway, and even if they do, they won't pig out on it. She makes
another dipping sauce out of half ketchup and half honey. Hello? What
happened to "no ketchup" for the kids? Does she think that adding honey
will make it have less sugar?
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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA