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We have been watching the Olympics in the evenings -- the stuff on NBC, since we don't get cable, which mostly at this point has been (a) synchronized diving, (b) beach volleyball, (c) swimming, and (d) gymnastics. The synchro diving has been taped highlights and has been edited down in a rather frustrating way -- last night, the North Koreans were in second place after the first round, and then dropped completely off the standings, presumably because they totally muffed their second dive. Did we get to see either the superlative first dive or the terrible second dive? Nooooooooo. However, when the Mexican divers were shown, we knew they'd have to be the surprise medal contenders. (For one brief moment I thought maybe NBC was showing the Mexicans because they have noticed the huge Mexican population that lives in the U.S., but presumably they're supposed to be watching los Juegos Olimpicos on Univision.)
Sometimes one event finishes before the next thing they were planning to air is ready to start, and they put in some filler, like a piece yesterday about panda bears. Today the filler fluff piece I saw was about the bizarre things those wacky Chinese people eat. I was unimpressed by duck feet and tripe, but at one point the woman bought a deep-fried scorpion. She didn't pop it in her mouth or anything but she did sort of nibble on a leg.
I will eat almost anything, but I will admit a certain reluctance to eat enormous, scary bugs that still look like their enormous, scary selves at the point that they're being served. And this was an enormous, scary bug, deep fried, and served on a stick.
I desperately DESPERATELY wanted someone on the TV to make a joke about the Minnesota State Fair, but NO ONE DID.
(The Minnesota State Fair, which starts next week, is where Minnesotans swap in-jokes, and one of the long-running Minnesotan in-jokes is food on a stick. Sure, you've seen corn dogs on sticks and pork chops on sticks, but at the Minnesota State Fair, you can buy a latte on a stick, macaroni and cheese on a stick, a deep-fried Mars Bar on a stick, and naturally, deep-fried alligator on a stick. But you cannot yet buy deep fried scorpion on a stick. I think this is too bad. Not that I would eat one, mind you, but the same sort of people who go on the reverse bungy ejector seat thing because their friends double-dog dared them would buy and eat deep-fried scorpion on a stick, don't you think?)
Sometimes one event finishes before the next thing they were planning to air is ready to start, and they put in some filler, like a piece yesterday about panda bears. Today the filler fluff piece I saw was about the bizarre things those wacky Chinese people eat. I was unimpressed by duck feet and tripe, but at one point the woman bought a deep-fried scorpion. She didn't pop it in her mouth or anything but she did sort of nibble on a leg.
I will eat almost anything, but I will admit a certain reluctance to eat enormous, scary bugs that still look like their enormous, scary selves at the point that they're being served. And this was an enormous, scary bug, deep fried, and served on a stick.
I desperately DESPERATELY wanted someone on the TV to make a joke about the Minnesota State Fair, but NO ONE DID.
(The Minnesota State Fair, which starts next week, is where Minnesotans swap in-jokes, and one of the long-running Minnesotan in-jokes is food on a stick. Sure, you've seen corn dogs on sticks and pork chops on sticks, but at the Minnesota State Fair, you can buy a latte on a stick, macaroni and cheese on a stick, a deep-fried Mars Bar on a stick, and naturally, deep-fried alligator on a stick. But you cannot yet buy deep fried scorpion on a stick. I think this is too bad. Not that I would eat one, mind you, but the same sort of people who go on the reverse bungy ejector seat thing because their friends double-dog dared them would buy and eat deep-fried scorpion on a stick, don't you think?)
