| Thursday, December 18, 2008 |
06:13 - No! Our evil plan!
http://ridiculousfoodsociety.blogspot.com/
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"The Ridiculous Food Society of Upstate New York" is going firmly into my blog crawl, almost entirely on the strength of its topmost post's title: "Crab Pretzel, Crab Pretzel. Looks like Crab, Tastes like Pretzel."
Crab is an inherently funny food anyway. What other foodstuff is perfectly welcome in a gourmet context using vocabulary like "pure lump crab meat"? It's like going to Ruth's Chris and ordering a slab of Chunky Cow Meat.
Via JMH.
UPDATE: Hmm. After reading a bit more through it, it's getting increasingly tedious. Primarily because the author, while full of great vocabulary and visual imagery when he puts his mind to it, has a lazy streak a mile wide when it comes to finding synonyms for the word "nice". Seriously, "nice" appears on average at least once per paragraph. And then there's the overabundance of homophone guesswork ("dispersions" for "aspersions" and "preceded" for "proceeded", etc). Plus he misapplied the word "penultimate", which is a pretty serious crime in the Grammar Führer's Fatherland.
It's a petty distraction from what otherwise makes for some excellent and educational culinary reading. I've got to try a few of these Hudson Valley delicacies while I'm out here.
UPDATE: Uh, crap. I hope this wasn't my doing.
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Brian Tiemann
