Here are some great Super Bowl food commercials I’ve enjoyed in the past. You won’t find obvious ones, like the Snickers-Betty White commercial. I wasn’t going to include any beverage-related, but Budweiser’s “Wassup” commercials had so many great follow-up spoofs that I had to mention it.
Whatever you do, just don’t try to eat what you see in these commercials, or you may gain 60 lbs.
I had a hankering for some salami the other day, and it reminded me of the time I met GI Joe.
Talk about a random night: My friend and I decided to check out some east side dive bars back in January 2009. At Packer Inn, we noticed most of the patrons were gathered around some guy in a lab coat. We come to find out that he’s giving out samples of his meat, which he’s selling out of his truck outside.
So we get a heaping sample platter, and everything was delicious. I ended up buying a half log of garlic beerwurst. The guy, by the way, is named GI Joe, and he totally looks like it. The company is called Perl’s All American Sausage Co., and you can order by calling 1-800-JOE-PERL (he’ll also give you a Perl’s All American Sausage menu that comes with his “Sausage Emergency Number”). I’ll never forget him towering over me and saying in a deep voice, “Thanks a lot, brotha!”
Apparently, he stops by the Packer Inn 1-2 times a year; most weekends, you’ll find him at various bars in Chicago, where he’s based. Here’s a story that ABC Chicago did on him:
The Wall Street Journal had recently an interesting article titled “Can a Foodie and Mr. Bland Be Happy?” It provides anecdotes of couples who have opposite tastes in food. One woman says she “eats like a child” in that she usually only eats chicken and pasta, while her husband has enjoyed frog’s legs, escargot, etc. and “eats it in (her) face.”
I grew up being exposed to such a myriad of foods and tastes that I’m stunned by how conservatively some people eat (I seriously have a friend who thinks BBQ is too exotic). I’ve also been to other countries, and it seems like folks outside America have better palates than here stateside.
Of course, the article shows the extremes of being a foodie, describing a woman who bought a $500 truffle from Italy and questions the chef for 20 minutes before ordering (yikes!). I agree, some people in this category can be described as “intimidating, judgmental, even snobby,” as the article points out. Do you know anyone like this?
One way of coming to a happy medium, as the article points out, is to upgrade your ingredients (e.g. try grass-fed beef). Sometimes, I think it may be best if both sides just shut up and eat their own food.
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