I still remember the TV commercials from back in the early 70s — they have a trucker, or someone like that, from the south stopping to eat at a diner up north, where grits would have been unavailable. He asks for a pot of boiling water and a bowl.
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Love this piece. Sometimes, you just have to think of convenience foods as their own thing and allow them to exist -- not to take the place of the “real” product, but because they have their own advantages. I hardly ever have time to cook grits for myself for breakfast, but many’s the time I’ve brought instant grits…
I just left my long-time job as a small-town journalist, and a year or two ago I got to interview the man from my small town who wrote “That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound,” a terrific book about the making of Dylan’s “Blonde On Blonde.” It deals with the collaboration between Dylan and the Nashville session musicians who…
I miss “Doorknock Dinners,” an old Food Network show from the era when I first got access to Food Network. Host Gordon Elliott and a professional chef would go door-to-door in a middle-class residential area until they found a family willing to appear on the show. The chef would then have to prepare the best possible…
I have never had Vegemite, but I’ve become a U.S. convert to its UK cousin Marmite, which is also supposed to be spread very, very thinly. I can confirm this.
I would buy the Wendy’s hot chili seasoning in mass quantities, in a heartbeat.
Stephen! Don’t touch your face!
As they also point out in the documentary, there was a marketing company involved in the scandal that was dropped by McDonald’s like a hot potato, putting hundreds — the vast majority of whom had nothing to do with the actual scandal — out of work.
I got that reference!
Also an old movie series from the 40s (?), many of them starring George Sanders as Simon Templar. A year or so ago, TCM had them plugged into the Saturday morning slot where they feature old movie series, and I watched several of them.
He has acknowledged in interviews that he was in an extremely fortunate situation to be able to take care of the family, and seems keenly aware that it’s not an option a lot of fathers would have had.
I recall that back in his “Daily Show” days, during a strike when all of the other correspondents were required to honor the picket line, Oliver — with the union’s blessing — continued to work, because he was here on a work visa and would literally have been deported otherwise. Apparently, union rules do allow for…
That is true, but that’s not what happened in this case. See my comment above.
Yes, this is the way I remember it too. (I was 14-16 while the show was on the air.) It wasn’t a different name for syndication — it started on the network as “Baa Baa Black Sheep,” but the ratings were so-so, so they took it off for some retooling, and when it came back on the network it was “Black Sheep Squadron.”…
Supposedly, Andy Griffith, working for Method pioneer Elia Kazan, got so deeply into the character of Lonesome Rhodes while making “A Face In The Crowd” that he found himself acting badly to those around him, even away from the set. He did not like this, which is why he moved on to “No Time For Sergeants” and “The…
In case some people don’t know, when we talk about MGM’s back catalog, we *don’t* mean all of the MGM movies going way back to Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. At one point in the 1980s, Ted Turner bought MGM and then sold it a few months later, but he kept the back catalog (up to that point) to run on his cable channels,…
And then, at a different point in Conan’s run, CNBC or someone ran him -- I think those reruns may have been on a little different schedule, maybe a week after the original airing or some such.
Hey, if it means more parts for Calculon, I’m for it.
I have not yet seen “Star Trek: Discovery,” but doesn’t the original ship’s captain get killed pretty early on? Maybe that’s the second episode.