Just Because I Laughed.... (With Bonus Life With Woof & Sqrl)

[xyzzysqrl]

I am REALLY enjoying watching this playlist.

Particularly whenever the long-haired guy who I have mentally dubbed "Thor Odinson" is on-screen.

For the most part, I really respect that even if they're starting from a place of "What the hell even IS this thing?", most people will Get There. It will take them a false start, lots of confusion, and some shrugging, they will PROBABLY pick up a hammer and try to make apple pie with it... but they'll get to an acceptable place sooner or later.

And I respect that.

...also I could've REALLY USED the Mango video a few months back.


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BONUS LIFE WITH WOOF & SQRL
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Woof: "I don't think we have any New England foods you can fuck up and hurt yourself with, really. Like... what is New England famous for? Beans? Lobster? Chowder? Uhhh..."

Sqrl: "Moxie. You can hurt yourself bad with Moxie."

Woof: "...cream pie?"

Sqrl: "...what's the fuckin' ... with the ... peanut butter and marshmallow... FLUFFERNUTTER."

Woof: "A what?"

*WIKIPEDIA ENSUES*

Woof: "...yeah I dunno about that."

Sqrl: "Says it's a Somerville thing?"

Woof: "Well, Somerville doesn't exist. I was out there looking for the courthouse once for jury duty and the locals were like "GET LOST, SOMERVILLE'S NOT A PLACE" and I was like "I AM LOST that is why I'm asking."

Sqrl: "...maybe I'll buy some marshmallow and... get in the New England spirit, y'know..."

Woof: "Get in the New England spirit by making fun of the food because it sucks."

Sqrl: "Get in the New England spirit and declare Somerville doesn't exist."

Woof: "I once was in line for some food and watched the two guys behind the counter take fifteen minutes to realize they were both loudly agreeing with each other that something had taken place in Worcester, which they were pronouncing two different ways."

Sqrl: "No two people in my family pronounced 'worcestershire sauce' the same way. Woosterchurrshire sauce, Wusterchasure sauce, Wistacaca sauce..."

Woof: "Well you CLEARLY first need to set some ground rules like HOW FUCKING MANY SYLLABLES are in the word..."

Sqrl, chanting: "ANARCHY! ANARCHY!"

~fin~

Comments

[moxie_man]

Ah yes, Moxie™. Either you love it or you hate it. There's no in between. Best description I heard from a first time taster in Texas: "Gawd, how can you drink this? It tastes like carbonated Ben-Gay™!" I thought that was really funny until a few months after finishing grad school (living in exile in West Texas) I moved in with my maternal grandmother and assisted her the last six months of her life. To my shock, her Ben-Gay™ smelled just like my favorite soft drink.

And I'm one of those crazy Moxie-lovahs who prefers his at room temp. Another nice thing about it: in my uni days I never needed to worry about my roommates stealing any. :) Alas, that's not the case up here in Maine. Many a scout youth loves the stuff, so I must horde it at scout functions.


Fluffanutter--eh, when I was a kid it was great. Mother must have been insane to feed me Fluffanutter sandwiches: processed peanut butter (with added sugar) and white Fluff, which is basically more sugar. I guess she liked her kids bouncing off the walls. These days, the only thing I see Fluff is really good for is making fudge, at least the white/plain is. I'm not so sure about the strawberry or raspberry flavors.

Now a New England "food" that will kill you? That's easy: Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy, #1 selling hard liquor in Maine. I don't drink alcohol. A brother describes it as a combination of rubbing alcohol and rubber bands, or a couple of notches below Newfoundland Screech (shrug), if there's coffee flavor in it, the alcohol killed it long before it is consumed.

[xyzzysqrl]

My personal "New England Fluid" is Polar seltzer in various flavors, which I have taken to stalking the local stores in search of. Given that I've cut sweetened colas (allegedly, Moxie is sweetened, which I didn't realize until I saw "sugar free" Moxie and had to ask "WHAT WAS IT BEFORE?!") out of my diet for the most part, fruit flavored acid water is where I get my hydration.

[moxie_man]

Yes, Moxie is sweetened. If you buy it in cans or 2L it's with corn syrup (yuk), but in glass bottles, it's cane sugar. Most don't notice one way or the other thanks to Moxie's main flavor ingredient, gentian root. Those on your f-list who consume alcohol may recognize where else you'll find this root: bitters.

Useless trivia: Moxie was invented in Lowell, Massachusetts. Maine's claim comes from the inventor who was born and raised here, but like many a Mainah, he fled the state to seek his fortune, setting-up an apothecary in Lowell in the early 1870's. Looking around and seeing how well "snake oil" was selling, he wanted in on the game, but didn't want to sell something unwholesome that was mostly alcohol. The concoction he created was Moxie Nerve Food. You took it by the tablespoon. Then he noticed how popular carbonated drinks was becoming, so he started carbonating it and selling it in bottles, eventually dropping "nerve food" from the name.

My wife drinks Polar seltzer. When I want something other than Moxie (I normally drink diet), I'll reach for Polar's Orange Dry or Cranberry Dry (both in diet) or "steal" one of her seltzers. On our recent trip to Chicago, we found Polar in the local grocery store and for less than the local seltzer brand. We found this amusing.

[dang_bunni]

I always pronounced it 'Lea & Perrins' and avoided the whole thing.

[silveradept]

That playlist is beautiful. And also rather helpful. But mostly beautiful to watch.