RE: Steemit Iron Chef 2018 ~ Act 01 Round 12 ~ Celery: Ants On A Log ~ Original Photography And Semi-Short Discussion About A Most Excellent Picnic Food ~
As soon as I arrived at your feed I said aloud in the elation of the childhood remembered: "Ants on a Log! ANTS ON A LOG!" Oh I love this combination to this day as well! I wonder if modern kids even eat raisins? They aren't really represented by a video or comic book character, so probably they are invisible to them ;)
The pinochle on the snout song! Loved it sang it all the time and my second thought with the photo was that song! It's as if you made this recipe for me!
We did know the mcabre nature of our singing including the truth of 'ring around the rosy' but we were a dark lot, so we laughed all the more. Think Doris day married to the Addams family :)
I do have to say I did secretly whisper to the screen( as the red devil paint mascot on your shoulder )"Why don't you try baking these!" but luckily I'm seeing this post production so my evil ways didn't make it through the screen :)
I also collect old cookbooks and magazines from 1950s and these were illustrated in so many ways for the Mother to make the after school child. I always think of the illustration from a betty crocker cook book for kids which I think has one of my favourite illustrations of this in it.
Now, when is your cookbook coming out? I'll do the art and we can Steem promote and and sell it for SBD! :)
Aren't these fun?! So glad it brought about a memory of the past, and today as well. And I had NO idea that Ring Around The Rosies was about the plague. How many things did we sing that were not of what we thought. Though it sounds like you may have known more and been a more discerning kid than I. Then again, that's not hard to believe. We had versions of Whistle While You Work that I didn't figure out until WELL into adulthood. Maybe being clueless helps out in some of the things of life. Late mental bloomers and all. Sigh.
I love that the little devil on your shoulder is always whispering about overcooking things and other DD Mayhem. (Wow, DD, goes for both of us..) But I think we all must have that as a natural element of our nature. The good and bad fighting it out on either side of our noggins. How much is nurture, how much is nature...impossible to say by now. With 47,000 books and movies under our belt of experience.
I do love your idea of a cookbook. It would be an odd thing, but then again...
To date, it would have a carved Cabaage' O Lantern, The Faux Fowl Brusselball Sandwich, The Pseudopod Kielbasa, an Ice Cream Pie, and Ants On A Log. Think we're on to something here. About a handful more oddities, and we'll have a bestseller. I only have about six more to go, and am working on a sandwich for Monday....if I can find something I've never eaten before. Hmmm. I see our Steemship of Minnows, just breaking the curved-earth horizon, heading in at 40 knots toward the dock of success....I better get busy cookin' like a mad dog...