like hotcakes and molasses

I'm feeling powerfully hungry tonight. Hey, Shirley "Wife-of-Pat" Boone, got any ideas what I should fix myself for dinner?


Chili, eh? Sounds great! I'm always up for Tex-Mex cuisine. Let's see if I have all the ingredients on hand. Yep...I think those still ought be to be good..yep...yeah...WHAT IN THE NAME OF HOLY HELL?


That's got to be a misprint. I mean that's just fucking insane. Let me clean my spectacles and doublecheck the instructions...


Hmm... A bold precursor to the fusion cuisine movement? Or another example of the 1950's white Protestant normative culture cluelessly lumping all non-WASP ethnic groups into a single mass under the contol of the Vatican? Either way, it's making me lose my appetite.

Y'know, Shirley, I appreciate the help and all, but I think I'm just going to make a run down to Dragon Garden from some sweet and sour chicken and crab rangoons.

Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five - Beans and Cornbread (from Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five: 1947-1949, 2002) - Jump Blues: It's more than good. It's good for you. A heartfelt plea for culinary harmony that features one of the best (and most fattening) wind-ups and finishes in any song, ever.

The Adicts - Chinese Takeaway (from Sound of Music, 1982) - So where'd you put the menu? No, it's not by the phone. Hey, I didn't have it last. Look, it's not worth arguing over. I'm not using that tone, but I'm hungry and the place is going to close in half an hour. You found it? Where was it? Being used as a bookmark in my DC Showcase: War That Time Forgot trade? I don't know how it got there, honest. All right, let's not play the blame game; you order and I'll pay, ok? (I smell a frame up.) What? I didn't say anything, honest!