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July 22, 2004
The Queen eats no garlic
I was just watching Secrets of the Royal Kitchen where it was revealed that the Queen (of England) does not eat garlic, pasta or tomato (make certain to pronounce toh mah toe) sauce. Too bad for her.
This really is not about the Queen, but about the dearth of quality programming on television. If they are not trying to sell me something the shows are generally crap. The big 3 have Scrubs (an OK show only because I think women in scrubs are really hot, must be from working in the ER for so long), Prime Time where they are rehasing some old story about a murder in North Carolina for 2 hours, and CSI a complete farce. CSI is the show where they can sequence DNA in 20 minutes and have on file and instantly available a list of every type of beer bottle glass ever manufactured anywhere in the world. I worked picking up the dead for the medical examiner when I was a wee lad in undergraduate school and I can tell you the homicide scenes I was on were nothing like TV. The rest of the stuff on the 88 channels is not worth watching either, although Rear Window is on later tonight.
Back to the Queen, it seems she likes poached salmon with hollandaise sauce. Geez, the Irish have better food. In fact the Irish have fantastic food. I live for a good fry up although you can keep the black pudding.
I'm glad I don't watch much TV. I'm also glad I don't pick up dead people for a living anymore.
Holy geez, cucumber sandwiches: white bread (sliced the long way rather than up and down) butter, and peeled shaved cucumber. Make about 6 layers and then cut into finger sized sandwiches. My God that sounds like something you would feed guests you want to go home.
Now he is chopping up a lobster, a whole freaking lobster- the head, the shell, the legs and all to make lobster sauce. The English are at times a very unusual people.
Posted by Matthew at July 22, 2004 09:18 PM
Comments
I wish you had watched that murder show. I went to bed finally at 10 and have no idea if he was guilty or not.
Posted by: Norma at July 23, 2004 10:04 AM
He was found guilty.
Posted by: Monica at July 23, 2004 02:20 PM