Everything on a Stick
Another television series we've had TIVOed (and am I allowed to use this acronym when we're really using the DVR supplied by Comcast?), for the last couple of seasons is Life. Excellent show, starring Damian Lewis who was so completely awesome in Band of Brothers back when. In any case, the other night there was an episode concerning a murder that occurred in a Southern Californian mall, which is kind of what I visualize when I reflect on what Hell might look like. Not that I do that frequently, just every once in a while when I commit the sin of gluttony, or think about committing the sin of gluttony or want to think about, ah yes, moving on.
In a couple of scenes set in the mall, the characters mention that they are going to get something from Everything On A Stick. Apparently this is a venue that offers all manner of foodstuffs on wooden skewers. We are left somewhat in the dark as to what exactly this means, as at one point Damian Lewis mentions that Everything on a Stick does not, in fact, serve everything on a stick. This might be semantics as I think everything they sell is in fact, on a stick. I believe he means that one cannot get everything one wants on a stick. Like perhaps they don't have something like spaghetti, that they can put on a stick. Though thinking about it, I submit that this would be very cool if they did have spaghetti on a stick.
Mary has had this idea (we, meaning I, prefer to use the term, delusion) for some time that there is a large, potentially limitless market for selling food on a stick. Some ideas she's shared with me, even when I've protested feebly that I really don't want to know, include Fishsticks on a Stick, Avocados on a Stick, Baby Seal Blubber on a Stick (well really, what else are you going to do with it?), and of course, Cupcakes on a Stick. So when this same concept came up on TV last night she was alternatively incensed that her idea had been stolen and elated that her idea was commercially viable. Of course trying to explain that airing the idea on a TV show did not in and of itself connote commercial viability or even desirability meant little. I'm not sure which is worse. Oh, of course I do - it's the now firm and fervent belief that her time has come.
Just for the record I've never actually told Mary that state fairs have booths where one can get a pork chop on a stick or corn on the cob on a stick. I don't really want to get dragged to the State Fair even though I find the pork chop concept interesting. It meshes well with the revelation I had once in Paris while dining in a Greek café on the Left Bank which served all manners of meats on skewers a la kebab style including .....wait for it....a pork chop. It's really kind of amazing how the world is all connected somehow isn't it?
