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This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent.
Since 56 percent of America borders an ocean or gulf, we knew that one day we would have to prepare a seafood dish, so on Sunday we will be holding our nose and making clam chowder.
If only we could enjoy the most popular meal from America’s most wave-crashiest region.
We wish we loved seafood, and we also wish that the P-I’s Managing Editor David McCumber didn’t have to bend over backwards to please the stick-up-their-ass Seattle crowd.
This past Tuesday McCumber decided to remove a comical Hitler video from the P-I’s Big Blog. McCumber, we expected better from you.
For those who don’t know, McCumber was a popular stand-up comedian in the late eighties. Sadly, not many people remember his contributions to the generation of comics that came out of Los Angeles a decade ago. Rolling Stone’s recent Comedy Issue said of McCumber, "The guy who started as a glorified gofer on Letterman wound up changing the face of comedy--and never got any credit."
Before he hit the mainstream he walked away, choosing to go into the newspaper business.
Ironically, McCumber had a twenty-minute bit about Hitler running a surf shop in Santa Cruz that killed. It would absolutely destroy audiences; he literally had them on the floor. It was classic McCumber.
It’s sad to think that the man who practically invented the awkward pause/natural style of comedy that current dominates TV and movies now has to take orders from anonymous commenters.
Oh, and while we’re on the subject, you haven’t seen prop comedy until you’ve watched P-I political writer Kathy Mulady’s one-woman show.
Originally we thought we would make Guinness stew or some Irish meal that gets sucked up like a film script set in Southie. However, we couldn’t escape the influence that chowder casts over New England’s kitchens.
We were talking to a real life Massachusettsener about this and she agreed that clam chowder was a good choice, but also mentioned the popularity of the region's bean dishes. Apparently every Saturday night the residents of New England eat beans and franks, and they top it off with, wait for it, bread in a can.
Well, it's date nut bread heavy on molasses called B&M Brown Bread.
At which point Connecticut’s own Elisa the Dietitian approached and was informed that we had never heard of this Saturday night pork and beaning tradition.
"What the hell is wrong with you, who doesn’t know that?"
Then the two of them discussed the preferred ways of parking one’s car in Harvard Yard.
Well, the game isn’t on Saturday night, it’s on Sunday night. What’s that, America is sick of watching the Hawks? Wow, even the Patriots can’t save us; the game has been flexed to Sunday afternoon.
So that morning we’ll be at the Market buying steamers, and then getting a side meal for ourselves. Possibly a corned beef sandwich, soda bread, or Lucky Charms with whiskey, something that will get us through the three and half hours of not being able to stare into Tom Brady’s eyes.
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