Passing thoughts…
Sardines…ah…chicken of the oceanside bay area known as Cypress City.
Erk, Randie actually eats those things? Blech.
Never understood how people munch on all those bones and squishy things inside.
The way Randie glares, that shirt could use a couple more #@&?! characters on it.
Hey, how’d Twinks regrow that missing fang of his? I like how he and Bucky from the “Get Fuzzy” comic strip, have opposing missing fangs…uh…had?…argh.
Stick,
Randie lives on Squid Row(Cannery Row). This was home to several canneries that processed Sardines. I grew up eating pickled herring. My grandmother is Norwegian, so lutefisk was also a part of my growing up. I draw the line at Anchovies on my pizza!
It does seem as though Randie is wearing a “Star Trek” top.
Sardines are very good for you… all that omega stuff and calcium and iron to boot. I like them beheaded, stuffed in a can with olive oil. mmmm. I do like herring also… more mmmm.
Yes, Randie lives on Squid Row, which is a nickname for the “questionable” part of “The Row” (modeled after Cannery Row-I suggest reading the book as well). It’s almost a prerequisite that she likes & consumes those tastey little fishies. Ironically, only one place still sells them on Cannery Row… and they don’t actually can them there; they can them in Santa Cruz.
I hadn’t made the Star Trek connection when I was coloring…. she does have a “Captain-tee” feel.
I don’t compare my Squid with their Fuzzy. I didn’t borrow from that strip; it just so happens we both have cats with fangs. You might’ve noticed I have an orange cat, like that other strip… It was a conscious decision…Orange stands out the best from the background… and since Garfield was the first comic strip I read religiously, I consider it a nod to Davis.
brig and I bantered in a discussion over the name of the Squid town, but it is Cypress City.
Anchovies, sardines are both oily, saltwater fish and thus well-suited for pizzas, still, all the fish bones and guts and little teeth and….erk. Plus, can anyone tell me why folks have to take naturally oily and salty fish and then marinate and pack it in more oil and salt? You won’t find them on my, typically veggie pizzas. I say, artichoke hearts are the best topping.
Lutefisk? Blech. I just looked it up. We are talking dried salted whitefish, first soaked in water for a week to “saturate” it. Then soaked in a lye (bleach?) solution until it loses more than 50% of its protein, swells up and becomes a gelatinous fish goo. Wikipedia says that after the lye treatment the goo has a pH value of 11 to 12! As in über caustic, dissolve your tongue away, so it has to be soaked again in ever changing water baths for a week the dilute down its corrosiveness. Oh, and then the goo has to be covered in salt (of course) before being cooked (boiled) so that it does not fully dissolve itself. It must be a cultural love.
As for the “Star Trek” top. I don’t know about it’s t.v. series connections, but it sure is, uh, form-fittingly, clingy. Woohoo! Also, it’s nice to see both Randie and Rye revealing their necks.
hi brig…
Just saw your comment. The reason I brought up that other cartoon cat is that both he and your Twinkie have had a missing fang tooth in previous strips. I was just surprised it reappeared kinda like a shark’s tooth. What is he, with stripes and all, part tiger shark?
Once you open any kind of tin, especially of any fish product, Cats appear from nowhere. Outta the sink drain, the cupboards, through the window, they’re everywhere. I think it’s a part of their instincts. Opening can = can o’ fish!
Synchronicity strikes! Because of the way I’ve set up my browser bookmarks, the following tag appeared in a site I view shortly after Squid Row:
“She Did Say No Anchovies”
The content is a newspaper clip about a woman arrested for drawing a sword during an argument at a Pizza Hut. The article doesn’t actually mention what the argument was about.
Lye is either sodium or potassium hydroxide, not bleach (which is sodium or potassium hypochlorite, depending on what kind of bleach you’re looking at). It is the same stuff that you buy as oven-cleaner or drain-opener.
Lye is extremely caustic, and in many ways as bad or worse than concentrated acid. When you spill acid on your skin, you start to feel the burn immediately, so you respond to the accident quickly. But spill a concentrated base on your skin, and there is no burning sensation, though the proteins in your skin are being destroyed quite rapidly. Very nasty.
(Sorry if this is too much information, the chemist in me tends to geek out when I get the chance!) 8^)
Jack! Ha! it’s true? …they linger, as well, as if to say “food for me? you got food for me? for me?”
I love it when things line up like that, Beetle… it’s almost like somebody is saying… “hey, take notice here!”
I am now edumacated on lye, lutefisk and hypochorite. Thanks, I think.
Firedome- tomato sauce, eh? hmmm. Well, this whole conversation inspired some sardine purchases over the weekend… I have plans for the empty cans… bwah ha ha!
Passing thoughts…
Sardines…ah…chicken of the oceanside bay area known as Cypress City.
Erk, Randie actually eats those things? Blech.
Never understood how people munch on all those bones and squishy things inside.
The way Randie glares, that shirt could use a couple more #@&?! characters on it.
Hey, how’d Twinks regrow that missing fang of his? I like how he and Bucky from the “Get Fuzzy” comic strip, have opposing missing fangs…uh…had?…argh.
Stick,
Randie lives on Squid Row(Cannery Row). This was home to several canneries that processed Sardines. I grew up eating pickled herring. My grandmother is Norwegian, so lutefisk was also a part of my growing up. I draw the line at Anchovies on my pizza!
It does seem as though Randie is wearing a “Star Trek” top.
Oh come on anchovies are the best thing for pizza.
Maybe Jon would have better luck with Garfield if he just stood around glaring at him 24/7. I know that’d put me off my food.
Sardines are very good for you… all that omega stuff and calcium and iron to boot. I like them beheaded, stuffed in a can with olive oil. mmmm. I do like herring also… more mmmm.
Yes, Randie lives on Squid Row, which is a nickname for the “questionable” part of “The Row” (modeled after Cannery Row-I suggest reading the book as well). It’s almost a prerequisite that she likes & consumes those tastey little fishies. Ironically, only one place still sells them on Cannery Row… and they don’t actually can them there; they can them in Santa Cruz.
I hadn’t made the Star Trek connection when I was coloring…. she does have a “Captain-tee” feel.
I don’t compare my Squid with their Fuzzy. I didn’t borrow from that strip; it just so happens we both have cats with fangs. You might’ve noticed I have an orange cat, like that other strip… It was a conscious decision…Orange stands out the best from the background… and since Garfield was the first comic strip I read religiously, I consider it a nod to Davis.
Joe…Dave…
brig and I bantered in a discussion over the name of the Squid town, but it is Cypress City.
Anchovies, sardines are both oily, saltwater fish and thus well-suited for pizzas, still, all the fish bones and guts and little teeth and….erk. Plus, can anyone tell me why folks have to take naturally oily and salty fish and then marinate and pack it in more oil and salt? You won’t find them on my, typically veggie pizzas. I say, artichoke hearts are the best topping.
Lutefisk? Blech. I just looked it up. We are talking dried salted whitefish, first soaked in water for a week to “saturate” it. Then soaked in a lye (bleach?) solution until it loses more than 50% of its protein, swells up and becomes a gelatinous fish goo. Wikipedia says that after the lye treatment the goo has a pH value of 11 to 12! As in über caustic, dissolve your tongue away, so it has to be soaked again in ever changing water baths for a week the dilute down its corrosiveness. Oh, and then the goo has to be covered in salt (of course) before being cooked (boiled) so that it does not fully dissolve itself. It must be a cultural love.
As for the “Star Trek” top. I don’t know about it’s t.v. series connections, but it sure is, uh, form-fittingly, clingy. Woohoo! Also, it’s nice to see both Randie and Rye revealing their necks.
hi brig…
Just saw your comment. The reason I brought up that other cartoon cat is that both he and your Twinkie have had a missing fang tooth in previous strips. I was just surprised it reappeared kinda like a shark’s tooth. What is he, with stripes and all, part tiger shark?
brig…
Yup, noticed your Twinkie is orange like a famous comic cat. Uh, who’s Garfield?
http://www.google.com/search?q=bill+the+cat&hl=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0erXTaGTNIHQsAPsuaG4Bw&sqi=2&ved=0CCQQsAQ&biw=1259&bih=601
So did Twink get an dental implant?
WTG, Randie! Glare down the Twinkie and defend your food, if not your turf! Whoooooo!
Once you open any kind of tin, especially of any fish product, Cats appear from nowhere. Outta the sink drain, the cupboards, through the window, they’re everywhere. I think it’s a part of their instincts. Opening can = can o’ fish!
Synchronicity strikes! Because of the way I’ve set up my browser bookmarks, the following tag appeared in a site I view shortly after Squid Row:
“She Did Say No Anchovies”
The content is a newspaper clip about a woman arrested for drawing a sword during an argument at a Pizza Hut. The article doesn’t actually mention what the argument was about.
sardines? i prefer mine packed in tomato sauce…like those extra large ones you find in the mexican food section in the supermarket!!!!
JoeMinotaur;
Lutefisk, eh? Did your Gran make her own, or did she have an interstate HAZMAT permit to ship them in?
@Stick-figurer;
Lye is either sodium or potassium hydroxide, not bleach (which is sodium or potassium hypochlorite, depending on what kind of bleach you’re looking at). It is the same stuff that you buy as oven-cleaner or drain-opener.
Lye is extremely caustic, and in many ways as bad or worse than concentrated acid. When you spill acid on your skin, you start to feel the burn immediately, so you respond to the accident quickly. But spill a concentrated base on your skin, and there is no burning sensation, though the proteins in your skin are being destroyed quite rapidly. Very nasty.
(Sorry if this is too much information, the chemist in me tends to geek out when I get the chance!) 8^)
Jack! Ha! it’s true? …they linger, as well, as if to say “food for me? you got food for me? for me?”
I love it when things line up like that, Beetle… it’s almost like somebody is saying… “hey, take notice here!”
I am now edumacated on lye, lutefisk and hypochorite. Thanks, I think.
Firedome- tomato sauce, eh? hmmm. Well, this whole conversation inspired some sardine purchases over the weekend… I have plans for the empty cans… bwah ha ha!