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Posted on 03.11.10 by Danny Glover @ 12:11 pm
You gotta love a grandma who will go the extra mile — or, in this case, the extra two days — to get her grandson a memorable ice-cream treat:
It reminds me of the good ol’ days when my wife camped in the streets of our nation’s capital to get our kids tickets to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, which is just weeks away. Alas, President Obama killed that family tradition last year. But the local ice-cream shop just opened, so I’m taking the family there for a treat today — after we scarf some Costco pizza for lunch. Filed under: Family and Food and Human Interest Comments: None |
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Posted on 02.26.10 by Danny Glover @ 7:43 pm
So our public schools are stuffing kids full of sugar- and fat-laced snacks but apparently not teaching them capitalization, punctuation and other basic rules of grammar. Parents might as well send their kids to a candy store for classes — which may be their best chance for employment if they don’t start learning how to write. It’s enough to make an enlightened redneck journalist like me scream. (Read previous “Why We Home-School” lessons.) Filed under: Culture and Food and Grammar and News & Politics and Why We Home-School Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 01.14.10 by Danny Glover @ 10:34 am
Politicians — and apparently their wives, too — just can’t help themselves. They don’t know how to be genuine. When even their food is fake, you know everything is phony. So it was with first lady Michelle Obama and her appearance on “Iron Chef of America,” a supposed “reality” series on the Food Network:
OK, to be fair, Michelle Obama isn’t to blame for this episode of phoniness. All vegetable decisions were made by the network to fit its schedule. But the revelation (via Michelle Malkin) doesn’t make the first lady look good. Filed under: Entertainment and Food and Human Interest and People Comments: None |
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Posted on 01.08.10 by Danny Glover @ 10:58 am
I’m not a fan of oats, National brand or otherwise, unless they are in cookies. But I managed to fulfill National Oats’ goal of becoming a “husky” kid just the same. That’s a good thing, right?
(Hat tip to Instapundit) Filed under: Advertising and Culture and Food Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.24.09 by Danny Glover @ 1:28 pm
That’s what Angela Sims-Quinty started doing a few years ago, and continues to do on a regular basis to eat Krystal burgers now that the chain opened a restaurant near her home in Houston. Her passion earned her a spot in the Krystal Lovers Hall of Fame — and her image and story on Krystal burger boxes everywhere for a month. “You know you’re a redneck when your sister’s picture is on a Krystal’s burger box,” her brother said. Filed under: Advertising and Business and Food and Human Interest Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.19.09 by Danny Glover @ 11:51 am
“It’s really a neat way to do business,” Tom Klebe told the Herald & Review in Decatur, Ill. He and his wife, Darla, have been selling the snack baskets online since 2004 and have new mixes planned for after the holidays. “The challenge we are running into is all of the different shipping options.” The store has arrangements for hunters (lots of jerky and other meaty morsels), fisherman (Goldfish crackers and other aquatic-themed snacks), soldiers (everything your favorite military man, or woman, could want while away from home) and more. The biggest basket, “Bubba’s Little Brother,” sells for about $130. And right now all 10 versions of the redneck basket, which actually come in metal tubs, are “stimulus priced”! Filed under: Business and Fishing and Food and Hunting & Guns and Rednecks Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.16.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:02 pm
I almost had my wife take me to the emergency room for fear of a heart attack, but the pain suddenly stopped after about three minutes. I decided to wait a day and call my cardiologist’s office for an opinion on what to do next. The nurse practitioner, who only a few weeks earlier had given me a thumbs-up at my annual check-up, didn’t seem worried because I didn’t have any shortness of breath or other symptoms, but she scheduled a precautionary nuclear stress test today. I had a stress test once before, so I was surprised to learn I couldn’t eat anything after midnight the night before. When I got to the office, I learned why — a nuclear stress test is different from the standard treadmill stress test. The doctor’s aide shot radioactive blood into my veins, which then traveled to my heart so they could get pictures of it. After the first set of pictures, I had to run on the treadmill until I felt like I was going to collapse (it didn’t take long for an out-of-shape, work-at-home journalist). Then I got to eat a snack before one more round of radioactive photography. That brings me to the Oreos I mentioned in the headline. When I returned to the waiting room to get the aforementioned snack, I was surprised to see snack-sized packages of Oreos as an option. I woke up Sunday morning thinking I was having a heart attack, and three days later, my cardiologist offered me fat- and sugar-laden cookies as a snack. Tell me how that makes sense. I ate Cheez-Its instead. They aren’t much healthier, but it just felt wrong to this enlightened redneck to eat Oreos at a heart-checking station. As for my heart, the aging kicker appears to be in good shape. I’ll have a follow-up appointment with my cardiologist next week, but I was told a doctor would be reviewing my heart snapshots today, and if anything required immediate attention, I would get a call. I never did. Filed under: Family and Food and Technology Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:40 pm
Here is a touching holiday story from a Philadelphia-area diner: The City of Brotherly Love indeed. I suspect the mystery couple that started it all were rednecks because they appreciate simple but meaningful gestures. Filed under: Food and Holidays and Human Interest and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.11.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:45 am
We don’t want our children put on a government-approved diet of “spent hens” and other menu items that don’t even pass muster with the fast-food industry. The good news is that some unlucky members of Congress and their aides will be served a heaping helping of school lunches one day next week — ironically enough because the Agriculture Department thinks it is doing a great job feeding America’s schoolchildren. We’ll keep serving our kids lunches from Costco. The food there is a safer health bet. Filed under: Food and Government and Parenting and Why We Home-School Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.26.09 by Danny Glover @ 4:39 pm
What Melissa said: “The ad wraps up the left’s disgust with America. Crappy tradition, crappy white family, crappy Thanksgiving, hypocritical Christians and, of course, animal hatred. Basically, the ad captures everything they hate about America in one ad.” I can’t wait to scarf down some leftover turkey inside one of Mom’s homemade rolls for a snack this evening. I’ll enjoy it even more after watching that ad. And for entertainment, maybe I’ll watch MSNBC’s lame attempt to embarrass enlightened redneck Sarah Palin during her appearance at a turkey farm last year. Filed under: Advertising and Culture and Family and Food and Holidays and Video Comments: None |
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Posted on 11.07.09 by Danny Glover @ 3:31 pm
I’m watching the West Virginia-Louisville football game and just saw this Allstate commercial: “Uh, but hold the tartar sauce” — sounds like something I would say in a fancy restaurant. I love steak and am always tempted to order steak tartare until my wife reminds me that it’s beyond rare. It’s raw. Filed under: Advertising and Food and Just For Laughs and Sports and Video and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.31.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:15 am
What a great name for a redneck restaurant! I’m going to have to find a good reason to drive West Virginia Route 2 between Point Pleasant and Huntington just so I can visit.
Let me revise that statement: Visiting Hillbilly Hot Dogs is all the reason I need for the trip. Go to the blog of Charleston, W.Va.-based photographer Rick Lee for the rest of the photos, inside and outside the beautiful dive. (Hat tip to Don Surber) Filed under: Business and Food and Human Interest and People and Photography and Rednecks and Travel and West Virginia Comments: None |
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Posted on 10.28.09 by Danny Glover @ 10:08 pm
A friend posted this ad to Facebook, and it put me in the mood for Nutella. My wife restocked at Costco today, so I had Nutella for supper: I had never heard of Nutella until friends from church who had spent a few years in Italy introduced it to me after Sunday lunch. It was dessert. I’ve been hooked ever since. But like all enlightened rednecks, I eat my Nutella with peanut butter. It’s the perfect blend of America and Europe — like a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup on bread. Europeans like the stuffy dude in the ad don’t know what they’re missing. Filed under: Advertising and An Enlightened Redneck ... and Food and Media and Video Comments: 1 Comment |
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Posted on 10.15.09 by Danny Glover @ 9:48 pm
First, we crave Mister Bee potato chips. The good news is that we West Virginians in exile can haul stashes of chips with us after visiting home or grab a few bags if we are fortunate enough to drive through the state in our travels. But the best Mountain State delicacy of all time is the pepperoni roll. I can’t wait to visit my parents — or for them to visit us — because Mom almost always makes a batch when we’re together. They taste best fresh out of the oven, with a sheen of melted butter on top. They’re great for breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack — or all of the above. Just pop ‘em in the microwave for 10-15 seconds. Many pizza places in the state sell homemade pepperoni rolls and distribute them through grocery stores and convenience marts. My wife is hooked on the meaty, cheesy and saucy mix I introduced her to at Pasco’s in New Martinsville, W.Va. She has to make a trip there at least once every time we visit my family. I love taking pepperoni rolls to work in the Washington, D.C., area. We’re not far from West Virginia, yet most people here have never heard of pepperoni rolls. They love ‘em once they get a taste. A colleague once told me he’d pay $1.50 per roll to buy them from street vendors in the city. That was in the early ’90s! So how did the pepperoni roll come to be such a food staple in West Virginia? Not even this enlightened redneck knew the answer to that until my Mom told me last night she had read a story about that recently. That newsflash sent me scrambling to Google, and I found this nugget in, of all places, a New York Times story published Sept. 30: Filed under: Family and Food and West Virginia Comments: 6 Comments |
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Posted on 08.27.09 by Danny Glover @ 6:52 pm
Rednecks don’t go to a farm for vacation; they work the farm year round. So who goes to a farm for a vacation — and who runs those farms? Elitists who want to convert the world to their doctrine of worshiping all things “natural.” And who writes celebratory stories about them? The elitist New York Times:
If you want a true taste of farm life, do a public service and talk a farmer into letting you work long, hard hours for him for a summer. It doesn’t get any more “organic” than that. That said, I do love to see the free market at work so successfully. One farm now brings in seven times what the owner makes selling lamb and turkey. Just goes to show that even some elitists have a little redneck ingenuity in them. Filed under: Food and Human Interest Comments: None |
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