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Hella Stella was adorable performing beside Louie the Puppet.
Astronaut Love Triangle was just as hilarious and entertaining this time as they were last time. Well, almost. (You know me, I don’t like to knit-pick, and what they did do was absolutely five star, first-rate entertainment. But it would have been ever so slightly better if only they’d included that Gilligan’s Island number I like so much.)
Hella Stella and Louie, together at last
The Astronaut Love Triangle
The only disappointment was that – as Nadia warned me in advance – the Banana Butterscotch Cake was a bit botched by the bakery, in that they used the Carrot Cake icing instead of the Butterscotch icing. I LOVE Raw Sugar’s Banana Butterscotch Cake, and it just wasn’t the same without the butterscotch.
If you were to organize all foods by order of preference in a big long line, what foods would be at the ends of your line?
Mine would be peanut butter (least favourite) and raspberries (most favourite).
dried coconut least … raspberries first
Least would be pineapple – most favorite is peanut butter by a mile
easy…maple fudge top, liver last
Zoom, I forgot an excellent pun that I made at Raw Sugar. If your friend has it, I would appreciate it if he could return it. Thanks in advance.
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Least would have to be canned creamed corn (I’m gagging just typing this) and best would be something from the sea. Would seafeood chowder be a cheat since it’s a composite food?
Yay, I’m “OF”. It is a dream come true. And it WAS a fabulous evening.
Your best and least favourite foods challenge is pretty challenging. My favourite food is dependant on the mood I’m in. The things I absolutely cannot eat are pork and caraway. The top of the list is so variable I daren’t name anything.
favorite is steak and least favorite is christmas cake or anything with dried fruit
Just reading your earlier blog about the tofu challenge linked above. I have to say that I agree with you: I don’t particularly like tofu and would never order it in restaurant for its own sake and will probably never buy or cook any, but I eat it quite happily when others prepare it, as long as it’s mixed in with other tastier stuff. But “not hating” it doesn’t mean “loving” it. Did you get Duncan to do acrobatics in the end?
Re the current question: Least favourite: licorice, root beer (both taste dreadful), marshmallows (horrible foam-like texture when raw, nasty and gooey when toasted). Favourites would include avocados, roasted salted cashews, pineapples.
Gal Smiley made just such a list the other night, ranking all foods on a scale from 0-900. 900 was ice cream; 0 was peanut butter!
I’d have to put my mom’s apple pie at the top of the list. At the bottom would be the dreaded CORIANDER. Something about it tastes like dirt to me — I can’t stand anything with it added. Parsley is a close second-last.
I can’t think of a food I really dislike … and there are so many I do like that that challenge is almost impossible. I prefer salty to sweet and I sometimes have difficulty with the IDEA of putting together these combinations: eggs and poultry; seafood and pasta … but I have eaten superb seafood pastas so it is really all in my head.
calamari at the low end because it’s the only food in the world that has made me sick (twice) and at the upper end? Tough choice . . . I’m fond of the nightshades . . . tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant . . . maybe a sun-warmed beefsteak tomato just plucked from the vine, sliced, dusted with salt and pepper and drizzled with a great olive oil.
favourite has to be dark chocolate. Tied for least favourite are liver and turnips.
Aww, I’m sad I missed the show!
My favorite would be pasta and cake and least favorites would be eggs and broccoli.
Ewwwwwww turnips. My favourite farm job was turning the handle on the turnip grinder: every turnip ground was one less to show up at the table.
Mudmama, I wonder if there’s a genetic connection, since I love raspberries and hate coconut too.
Gramps, there goes my genetic theory. 😉
Deb, did you know that they’ve now concluded (after our generation was forced to eat it) that liver is bad for you?
RealGrouchy you’re in luck. My friend says: “it was a play on people/papal it was really good, and fired from the hip a la butch cassidy and the sundance kid”
Grace, that’s interesting, I hate both your most and least favourites.
XUP – I like pork, but I can understand someone else not liking it. But caraway? I don’t get it.
Bil-Rob – Bill and I both took the Likeness food quiz on Facebook last year and we matched VERY closely. I love steak too. And I’m with you on the Christmas cake too – blech.
Lucy – Funny you should mention the tofu challenge. We were just talking about it at the vernissage. I still owe Hella Stella on that one. I played the cancer card to buy time, but eventually I guess I’ll have to come through. (I still owe Stephanie her prize for the Guess That Photo contest too…) I LOVE avocados, btw.
Lynn, coriander is such an interesting thing. So many people love it and so many people can’t stand it. Julia hates it too. She says it tastes like soap. I can’t understand why it tastes so noxious to anyone that it would make the bottom of their list, since it doesn’t seem like a particularly powerful flavour.
Oma, there’s no food you hate?
Cheryl, that made me want to head down to the community garden and pluck a tomato off the vine.
Bonnie, mmmm, dark chocolate.
Hannah, there are two kinds of people in the world – those who can narrow their favourites down to two but not one, and those who can’t.
Grace, I’m not crazy about turnips either, but I don’t mind a few bites in a stew.
Thanks, zoom! I vaguely remember it; it was built on one of his double-puns.
Someone mentioned calamari, which is one of my favourite dishes. As for my least favourite, there are many (MANY!) foods I don’t eat because I don’t like them, and I don’t have enough experience with them to know which I like least.
Ooh! I remember it now!!!
He was running on a weird story about agriculture (the kind where you only half pay attention because you’re fairly certain he’s nuts), and it culminated in the joke that they made a film about it called “salient grain” (for “soylent green”, of course). I quipped nonchalantly that if the grain were Catholic, then the catchphrase for the film would be “Salient Grain is Papal”!
Thank you so much, zoom, for helping me recover that pun!
– RG>
So…. what? If I wuz to present corn on the cob followed by my renowned peach pie you’d be all ” ain’t rasberry pie”? Well to tell the truth I’d be a bit torn too…
And could you have a good borscht without turnips? I don’t think so!!
Real Grouchy, I’m glad I could help you and the demented genius reconstruct that pun.
Future Landfill, I’ve been wondering where you’ve been. I thought maybe you’d wandered off; I’m happy to see you’ve wandered back.
I’m surprised to see so many peanutbutter haters. Least favourite food: olives. Fav: cheese cake. I can be extremely full from a meal, but always manage to find the room for cheese cake. Glad to hear you had a good night.
Due to a delay with the next artist, my photo show will be up for a few more days. The prints are also on sale until the end of the show.