Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for November 09, 2009
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Mom: Petey! Is that all you're going to eat? Petey: Uh-huh. Mom: I swear! I'm going to invent a new kind of food that's utterly neutral in flavor and texture. It'll taste like a big blah bowl of nothing. Then I'll sell it in big giant bags, like dog food. Petey: My mouth is watering! That's never happened before! Mom: And I'll hide one raisin in every bag, just to drive picky eaters crazy.
margueritem almost 15 years ago
Mom, that is brilliant
rayannina almost 15 years ago
It’ll make millions, I tell ya. Millions.
COWBOY7 almost 15 years ago
Go, Mom, go! It’s about time you got back at him!
Destiny23 almost 15 years ago
Just wait till he hits his teen years – you’ll look back fondly at the time before he emptied the fridge in a single gulp! (c.f. “Zits”…)
JHSayers almost 15 years ago
“Now with less flavor” … heh.
lazygrazer almost 15 years ago
My ex had that recipe.
jestrfyl almost 15 years ago
Two words - Toe Foo. It is bland, mushy, and takes up space without introducing significant flavor. Picky Eaters, as your parents to stock up on Toe Foo - sold wherever people who don;t care shop.
dianecliff almost 15 years ago
Sounds like my son….. It doesn’t always change when they hit the teen years - he’s 15 and still is picky like Petey!
Ermine Notyours almost 15 years ago
Futurama had “Bachelor Chow–Now with flavor!”
cleokaya almost 15 years ago
My cousin has two daughters that, when young, would go to a restaurant and having found nothing on the menu that they wanted to eat, would order noodles with butter.
JanLC almost 15 years ago
jestrfyl: Are you referring to tofu, otherwise known as soy bean curd? Nasty stuff, but I guess it’s a diet staple in some cultures.
Last week’s Dirty Jobs program was about making tofu. It reminded me a great deal of the cheesemaking process at a cheddar cheese factory I toured in Oregon.
kirbey almost 15 years ago
oh I love tofu… You just never had it served well
but for Petey Chow … I smell money !
GROG Premium Member almost 15 years ago
I can’t buy that. I like texture and flavor - it’s just that there are some textures and flavor best left untasted.
bald almost 15 years ago
hummm,
go for it mom, maybe even have flavoring for it, like jelly beans or licorice
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
openminded, they might be Aspies…
Tofu in itself is about the blandest food imaginable, but it’s good at absorbing the flavors of what it’s cooked in.
sredman almost 15 years ago
Her first mistake is giving him a choice. I would tell him like I tell my own son, finish all you food (or at least most of it).
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
sredman, that’s a battle she couldn’t win, with Petey as her adversary. Petey’s very good at immobility, and if she said “You aren’t leaving that table until you’ve cleaned your plate”, he’d happily sit there for days…
JUJUBEANIE almost 15 years ago
bald 716: that would ruin the whole point of the part where she said,” a bland bowl of nothingness”
fritzoid Premium Member almost 15 years ago
Asperger’s has all sorts of annoying symptoms, not all of which need be present to qualify you for the club. It’s just far enough along the autism spectrum to make Aspies seem “totally wierd” to the normal and boring…
Social phobia or awkwardness, hyper-literalism, expanded vocabularies (Aspies know when there’s a word that’s precisely what’s called for, and by God they’ll want to use it!)…
comics4brown almost 15 years ago
great idea Mom – but maybe it should be a “golden raisin” – sort of like a special prize?!
siddartha999 almost 15 years ago
Petey Otterpop is such a beautifully disturbed child…
Me_Again over 14 years ago
Otterloop.
Omniman about 3 years ago
They already sell bags of oatmeal.