Pecan someone your own size, Bucky
How did I somehow know I was going to regret my introduction to Bucky's post last week? But I can't let him get away with talking about the weather. I'm the only one who's allowed to talk about the weather on this blog. For instance, I was sitting here brooding about tomorrow's forecast on the Sun's weather page instead of publishing his guest entry. By the time you read this, it may change, but as of now the forecast for tomorrow in its entirety is: ice pellets.
Ice pellets? What kind of forecast is that?
Anyway, here's Bucky. EL
EL‘s introduction to my topic last Friday said, "Sorry, Bucky. Nice try. But you have to have more food in a post on a food blog."
I guess this means that Elizabeth has a beef with me. She can be a real tough cookie, if you didn’t know. ...
But if she had just picked up the phone and called me, I wouldn’t have been chicken. I would have argued, “Orange you glad that I don’t try to write about food and dining?”
See, I could try to write about fine dining establishments in Baltimore. But an old editor of mine, Rosemary, once gave me a big tip. It was sage advice: “Write what you know,” she said. If I wrote a review of Michael’s Steak and Lobster House (my favorite Baltimore restaurant) and peppered it with compliments, it wouldn’t fool the people of the Sand, which is understandable. You would think to yourselves, “This is just a bunch of baloney.”
Said another way, it wouldn’t cut the mustard with y’all. It would make everyone bleu, it would be so cheesy. You would butcher me for even trying. I’ll steak my reputation on it.
I am aware of my limitations. I don’t know nearly as much about the culinary arts as Elizabeth’s other guest posters, who are two peas in a pod. (In fact, they may be the same pea; who can tell anymore?) When I try to do food humor, it turns out like this:
Q: Why is six afraid of seven?
A: Because seven eight nine.
I wouldn’t get many brownie points for that, now would I? Y’all would probably give me the ol’ raspberry. You might even give me a finger, uh, sandwich.
Oh, I suppose that if I worked harder, I might be able to write more directly about food and restaurants. But, you know, the Sun doesn’t pay me for my Friday posts. I work for free. If Elizabeth wants me to spend 10 to 12 hours doing research for each Bucky’s World topic, she’ll be raisin my celery, to at least minimum wage.
The exercise for today is for y’all to carry on what I’ve begun here. The goal: a 100-comment post, with each comment having a culinary reference. I know you can do it.
(Photo courtesy of Free Digital Photos)
Comments
Artichoke Bucky for that one.
Posted by: Hal Laurent, VoR | January 9, 2009 11:28 AM
It does nutmeg any difference to me.
Posted by: RayRay | January 9, 2009 12:04 PM
I butter not tell you what I think of this game.
Posted by: gosseyn | January 9, 2009 12:19 PM
I am somewhat tongue Thai-ed.
Posted by: bra1nchild | January 9, 2009 12:20 PM
I doughnut think I can mustard up enough spicey responses to even ketchup to you all.
Posted by: Trixie | January 9, 2009 12:55 PM
I donut think its that hard to do.
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 9, 2009 1:06 PM
It's Friday. I'm too fried for this game.
Posted by: Lissa | January 9, 2009 1:11 PM
You do that by helping reach the 100 comment plateau, we just egg him on?
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | January 9, 2009 1:20 PM
Ooh, yeah! All right!
We're salmon:
I wanna salmon it wid you.
We're salmon,salmon,
And I hope you like salmon, too
Posted by: Bob Marley in ganga heaven | January 9, 2009 1:53 PM
I donut have thyme for this nonsense.
Posted by: RayRay | January 9, 2009 2:20 PM
She was a radishing beauty with huge gourds.
Posted by: RayRay | January 9, 2009 2:21 PM
I've haddock with this game on a fry day
Posted by: LEC | January 9, 2009 3:38 PM
this is nuts
Posted by: Steve_J | January 9, 2009 3:55 PM
Bucky - Can we roll over some of the comments made on the 12/30 "Top Memorable Dishes" post (only of course if we get desperate). Rye not? It isn't like cheating because we already cooked them up.
Posted by: Trixie | January 9, 2009 3:59 PM
I am pear-fectly amazed at the way we can dish it out. Its really gravy to see how we can rise to the occasion.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 9, 2009 4:19 PM
Great start, Sandbox.
Trixie - Yes, I think it's fair to roll over the seafood ones from the 12/30 post. Thanks for giving us the citation for it. What happens in the Sandbox, stays in the Sandbox, but can be moved from topic to topic.
I just want to point out--y'all do what you want, I'm not letting my control issues get out of hand--that if you have five good puns, we are more likely to hit our goal if you use them in five different comments, rather than including them in one.
And, hey, all you longtime readers but not yet commenters, this is your chance to jump in. As long as your comment contains a "culinary reference" it can be about anything. How will the Ravens do this weekend? What about this weather? Have a point you've always wanted to make about grammar, but were intimidated by the bow tie? Now's your chance and this is your place.
Lettuce not be shy...
Posted by: Bucky | January 9, 2009 4:30 PM
The Ravens will cream the Titans this weekend.
I am raisin-ably sure it will happen.
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 9, 2009 5:40 PM
"Have a point you've always wanted to make about grammar..."
Oh, so now you want to poach comments from other blogs do you? Well I hope the wind rustles your planned festivities. Ya think McIntyre is a sucker? Just a corn pone old salt? Better put a cork in it Bucky or he"s gonna meat you outside. It's fowl play and you know it. You ought to be berried alive.
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 9, 2009 5:52 PM
Well, I made a hash of my first attempt to comment. It made sense in my mind, at the thyme, but got so scrabbled in serving I'm not ensure what I meant to say. Shad, very shad.
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | January 9, 2009 6:43 PM
I often think the weather reports are a consipiracy cooked up by the milk and bread folks.
Posted by: Mary in York | January 9, 2009 7:01 PM
Not tonight, I've got a haddock.
Posted by: Goombah | January 9, 2009 8:19 PM
Goombah's Opinion:
Bucky, Asiago Needs Aging, Not Avacodos!
Posted by: Goombah | January 9, 2009 8:24 PM
Lettuce hope that the wise sage that manages the thyme clock for the Ravens does a good job olive the game.
Posted by: Cosmo Girls | January 9, 2009 8:40 PM
Lettuce pray that the Ravens beat the stuffing out of the Titans.
Posted by: Cosmo Girls | January 9, 2009 8:43 PM
Let's keep this going for the halibut.
Posted by: bra1nchild | January 9, 2009 8:47 PM
Don't forget that a bun is the lowest form of wheat in this gruel, gruel world. Which keeps getting cruller all the time.
Posted by: Michael A. Gray | January 10, 2009 5:15 AM
Only a couple more hours until the Ravens turn the Titans into toast.
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 10, 2009 2:34 PM
Yes, the Tennessee loss will be Titanic.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 10, 2009 4:36 PM
Just noticed the first part of the post. "the forecast for tomorrow in its entirety is: ice pellets.
Ice pellets? What kind of forecast is that? "
I guess its like sheep pellets, but white. In both cases a pile of s**t.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 10, 2009 4:40 PM
Bet those Titans are saying "foiled again"! Those forget the pasta are doomed to repeat it!
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 11, 2009 9:34 AM
Friends, Roman(meal)s, country(timelemonade)men, lend me your ears (of corn). It's time to step up to the plate. Surely everyone can cook up one lousy pun. Send some juice to this post. If I can make a phool of myself, you can too. For Bucky is an honorable man, and we wouldn't want him to think we don't give a flying fig.
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 11, 2009 10:47 AM
Only 31 (flavors) so far. Come on now, don't trifle with us. We knead another 70 Poast (toasties) to get us 100% wheat we want. You can mention anything you want, All-Brans are welcome.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 11, 2009 2:38 PM
I bet the Titans are crying sour grapes today. You know, some players can be such hotdogs, relishing in their own performance. But the Ravens once again pulled together and produced their receipe for success.
Posted by: Trixie | January 11, 2009 5:50 PM
Ohh wait another one - watching the Pittsburg/SD game, and they just mentioned a player by the name of Applewhite!
Posted by: Trixie | January 11, 2009 5:53 PM
Trixie, do they have a Cherrypink also?
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 11, 2009 7:31 PM
Will the Chair please provide a ruling?
If a multi-sentence comment contains multiple food puns/references, may we count each sentence with a reference/pun separately toward our 100 goal?
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | January 11, 2009 9:38 PM
It seemed like such a good idea at the time...oh, well.
Posted by: Bucky | January 11, 2009 10:15 PM
If a multi-sentence comment contains multiple food puns/references, may we count each sentence with a reference/pun separately toward our 100 goal?
I would say no, because if one looks up in the "most Recent Comment Box" is says how many comments there are. I think that has to govern.
(I just quickly counted through and there are about 70 actual puns...)
Posted by: Bucky | January 12, 2009 6:56 AM
Now that the Ravens have creamed the Titans, they have to go to a town where the burgers are the Pit(t)s. But things could be wurst. And if they beet the Steelers, they'll turnip at the Soup Bowl.
Posted by: Michael A. Gray | January 12, 2009 7:50 AM
RtSO - I was thinking the same thing. I'm worried that I am using up all my stuff in just a few sentences...My creativity (if you want to call it that) has a short shelf life.
Joyce - I hate when my pasta repeats on me. Can be quite uncomfortable!
Posted by: Trixie | January 12, 2009 9:56 AM
I hope the head banana doesn't catch me blogging at work. If he does, I won't have a way of raisin bread to pay the rent. My landlord insists on having his dough on the 1st.
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 10:43 AM
Uh Oh, here comes the big cheese.
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 10:46 AM
If I get canned, I'll really be in a pickle.
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 10:48 AM
Getting to 100 comments should be a piece of cake.
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 12, 2009 10:50 AM
RayRay is really on a roll.
Posted by: gosseyn | January 12, 2009 10:53 AM
Yeah, RayRay's a biscuit!
Posted by: Eve | January 12, 2009 11:42 AM
Call me butter, cuz I'm on a roll:-).
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 11:48 AM
If olive you pitch in, we can reach 100.
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 11:51 AM
If peanut oil comes from peanuts,
and olive oil comes from olives,
where does baby oil come from?
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 12:15 PM
Water you doin' for lunch today?
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 12, 2009 1:02 PM
I'm having a little bit of a roughy time coming up with new puns.
Orange you all?
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 12, 2009 1:09 PM
Each thyme I read a comment, I can feel myself pork up.
Posted by: PlainJane13 | January 12, 2009 1:41 PM
Don't give up. There are plenty of leftovers.
Posted by: Bucky | January 12, 2009 2:24 PM
Lettuce not get carrot away with this.
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 2:30 PM
RayRay, if your day job doesn't pan out you can always get a gig in a comedy club.
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 12, 2009 2:38 PM
There's no plates like chrome for the hollandaise.
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 2:46 PM
If we came one hundred, I'll feel great. If we don't, I'll falafel.
Posted by: Michael A. Gray | January 12, 2009 2:51 PM
Over halfway to your goal Bucky. Have we picked all the low hanging fruit?
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 12, 2009 2:52 PM
Let's make like mustard and "catch-up"
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 12, 2009 3:17 PM
Ray Ray asked "where does baby oil come from?"
Many years a go there was a Gahan Wilson cartoon in Playboy showing what would seem be a factory, with conveyor belts going every which way. All the conveyors had little babies in diapers on them and they were going into a large machine, the output of which was filling Baby Oil bottles. Do you know how many babies it takes to get one bottle of baby oil?
As Lonnie Donnegan asked in Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On the Bed Post Overnight):
"if tin whistles are made of tin,
What do they make foghorns out of?"
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 12, 2009 3:18 PM
I love chocolate so much you might say that I'm a coconut.
Posted by: RayRay | January 12, 2009 3:39 PM
Keep at it, guys. Don't duck out. Goose up your puncabulary. It's all fowl play. We may not compete with Keats or Shelley but some of these posts are pure poultry.
Posted by: Michael A. Gray | January 12, 2009 4:21 PM
Wine don't I sit down and have a glass and try to think up some more puns.
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 12, 2009 4:42 PM
Sure is chili down here, supposed to be like this all week.
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 12, 2009 4:44 PM
"Well, everyone knows that there's no plate like chrome for the Hollandaise!"
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 12, 2009 7:51 PM
I suddenly have a yearning to visit the Holy Land to see Mt. Caramel.
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 12, 2009 8:29 PM
Perhaps Mt. Caramel is near Big Rock Candy Mountain, Laura Lee?
Posted by: Lissa | January 12, 2009 9:04 PM
Lissa: Did you ever know that you're my gyro?
I think the Big Rock Candy Mountain is in Buckyland.
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 12, 2009 9:49 PM
Laura Lee, lettuce all be flattered.
Posted by: Lissa | January 13, 2009 6:36 AM
I'm going to milk this for all it's worth
Posted by: RayRay | January 13, 2009 8:05 AM
I had no idea that we had kumquat so far.
Posted by: RayRay | January 13, 2009 8:07 AM
Chili today, hot tamale.
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 13, 2009 9:23 AM
Is this olive 'em?
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 13, 2009 9:29 AM
You know Big Rock Candy Mountain is covered with Sno Caps. This topic is really giving me the Snickers.
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 9:58 AM
Come on Gang, I am bacon you, we need to reach 100!
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 10:35 AM
Sound the Bugels, I think I just saw the 3 Musketeers.
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 10:37 AM
Anybody seen Mike & Ike? Alright, I'm taking a break...have to get some work done!
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 10:40 AM
Ohhh, just one more for now...
I don't know if anyone noticed the Milky Way last night.
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 10:42 AM
What we need to keep the momentum going is some cheerleaders. They could give us some Pep-si? We could take everyone Outback and have a bon-bon fire.
Go, Sandbox, go!
Posted by: Bucky | January 13, 2009 10:53 AM
I guess there won't be any sour grapes because we are approaching 100.
Posted by: RayRay | January 13, 2009 11:30 AM
I can't sing in tuna, but I can trout about and cheer for the halibut.
Posted by: PlainJane13 | January 13, 2009 12:02 PM
If vegetarians eat vegetables,
what do humanitarians eat?
Posted by: RayRay | January 13, 2009 12:07 PM
Hey my Peeps!
You are all a bunch of hams....
Anyone for some Salsa dancing?
Posted by: cinnamon girl | January 13, 2009 12:42 PM
Hams? How about turkeys?
How about some meringue dancing?
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 13, 2009 1:13 PM
Its bean a little while since I last posted.
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 13, 2009 2:12 PM
Any egg-stra credit questions? I think we must have been "bread" for this!
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 13, 2009 2:44 PM
What a Whopper! I hope we are not floundering on this.
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 2:58 PM
My favorite Peanuts character is Peppermint Patty (can you tell I am having a slow day at work).
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 3:01 PM
I wonder where Kit Kat has been? Hopefully she will come back.
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 3:04 PM
Visualize whirled peas.
Posted by: RayRay | January 13, 2009 3:06 PM
Keep going everyone. Only 14 more. It should be a piece of cake.
Posted by: Bucky | January 13, 2009 3:07 PM
Cheese a Whiz, some of these posts are pretty corny
Posted by: RayRay | January 13, 2009 3:08 PM
Can anyone play Chopsticks on the piano?
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 3:15 PM
So Bucky, you're doing all the work while EL gets paid to do jury duty? Time for her to fork over some of that dough.
Posted by: Laura Lee | January 13, 2009 3:26 PM
Coming up with 6 more posts should be gravy.
Posted by: RayRay | January 13, 2009 3:34 PM
The boss just burst in and peppered me with questions. Sheesh, I feel like I've been a-salted.
Posted by: RayRay | January 13, 2009 3:41 PM
Is the Broadway theater award legit? Or can anyone rigatoni?
Posted by: Michael A. Gray | January 13, 2009 3:42 PM
Hey RayRay, yogurt some nerve! ; - )
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 3:45 PM
If we do this, we should have a parade down 5th Avenue.
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 3:57 PM
Much sage advice is NOT being provided in this Post (Toasties.)
Posted by: Robert (the Single One) | January 13, 2009 4:02 PM
I hear it is going to be pretty cold by the end of the week. We are going to need to really wrap up
Posted by: Trixie | January 13, 2009 4:07 PM
Okra dokee Trixie
Posted by: LEC | January 13, 2009 5:01 PM
yay!
The entry has reached 100!
It would have been a pita if it hadn't.
I bet Bucky is eggcited.
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 13, 2009 5:38 PM
Wow...I go into a staff meeting and when I come out: 102 comments!
Let's go for 200! Whoo Hoo!
Just kidding.
Thanks to everyone who participated, both in volume and in quality. The Sandbox can be a pretty funny place.
Posted by: Bucky | January 13, 2009 5:57 PM
Put a fork into it, we're done!
Posted by: Trixie | January 14, 2009 8:41 AM
just remember you can tuna piano but you can't tune a fish
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 14, 2009 9:31 AM
Joyce,
Isn't that REO Speedwagon?
So, this post is toast?
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 14, 2009 9:57 AM
I was in a restaurant recently and asked the waiter "Do you serve crabs?" He replied " Oh sure, we serve everybody."
Posted by: RayRay | January 14, 2009 10:18 AM
Yup, Fl Rob, you have a good memory! I'm out of puns, totally cooked!
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 14, 2009 10:45 AM
Joyce,
I think the name stuck with me because of the weird album title.
As for puns, I'm plum out of them.
Posted by: PCB Rob | January 14, 2009 12:11 PM
Do you know how hot you have to get it to make a Tuna Melt?
Posted by: Retired in Elkridge | January 14, 2009 2:15 PM
A sandwich walked into a bar, and the bartender said "Sorry, we don't serve food."
Posted by: RayRay | January 14, 2009 3:55 PM
A mushroom walks into a bar and the bartender says "sorry we don't serve mushrooms here" and the mushroom says "really, but I'm a fungi".
Posted by: Joyce W. | January 14, 2009 4:53 PM