Deep Down Inside, I Am Evil

[ladysprite]

I don't like to admit it, but I have a fondness for reality cooking competition shows. In particular, I have recently developed a shameful interest in Chopped - especially the current All Stars edition.

(For those not familiar with the show, each episode involves four chefs competing over 3 courses; for each course they get a set of four ingredients they have to use. Some ingredients are good, some are... at best random.)

And this is fascinating, and it's a cool exercise in creativity, and I love playing along at home and trying to think of what I would make if I were in their situation. But just once, instead of the standard collection of excellent and bizarre ingredients, like skirt steak, turnips, sweet potatoes, and fruit leather, I'd just love - just once - to see something truly bizarre and prankworthy.

I just have a vision of the contestants' faces as they open their basket and the voiceover announces, 'Today's mandatory appetizer ingredients are..... Branston Pickle, Cocoa Puffs, Sawdust, and The Contents Of Some Random Tupperware We Found In The Back Of Bobby Flay's Refrigerator. Your 20 minutes start..... NOW!'

This is how I know I am secretly a bad person.

(Also, I just love saying Branston Pickle. If I had a son, I would name him that. This, in turn, is how I know I should never reproduce.)

Comments

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

And then, after your son tracked you down after roaming all the nursery schools in the world, he'd beat you in tickle fight, and you'd explain that gravel in his gut and that spit in his eye was because you named him Branston Pickle. And... nah, it doesn't scan.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Bwee, I had the same thought. I wish I had a copy of the song and a spare afternoon to write the Branston Pickle Version.

[johnpalmer.livejournal.com]

Nod. I thought it should be a children's song, to avoid the big knockdown dragout fight at the end. I was horrified today to realize that I'd completely inadvertently made the song a greater possibility since the method of combat rhymes with the name....