Soy Sauce Packets & Epiphanies: He's Not Nuts.

He's Not Nuts.

Friday, October 17, 2008

3 comments:

Crazy Momma, 4:55 PM: I have a long comment, but I knew that you, of all my blogging friends, would appreciate it.

My brother in law sends this today:
"I guess this is why we have an electoral college:

http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=194983 (audio only)"

My reply:
"I think that you could probably attribute this to McCain supporters as well, however. There are plenty of voters that are just plain ignorant."

My sister replies:
"Ah, I am sure they could find some McCain supporters who don't know his positions well, and I am sure they could edit it to sound like McCain supporters don't know what they are talking about.

I think the point of the experiment, though, was to test whether people like Obama for his policies or his VP pick or just because of his race. The results are pretty telling, if you ask me."

And my final reply:
"I will certainly agree that there are supporters out there that don't know a thing and are voting for him mainly for the color of his skin or because he is a good speaker or because he is a democrat or because he chose Biden. But you can't tell me that is the reason he will win the election (or could win). There are plenty of people out there that WON'T vote for him specifically for those reasons as well. I can't tell you the number of times I have heard "you're voting for that n....." right here in Wolfeboro.

Ignorance goes both ways.

Let's not forget who did the experiment either. We are talking about Howard Stern. It's not like this is some incredibly reputable source."

It's like they think we are all "nuts"...I totally want to post about this but my sister reads the blog...and I fear I could cause much disruption in the family...
The waiter, 10:30 PM: Tony talks about me enough on the blog for everyone to know who I am voting for but....sometimes i wonder if whoever wins will win based on the crazy/stupid/ignorant people. There are just so many. and to crazy momma your family should respect who you are and even if you dont support who they support. I dont think anyone is nuts if they know the policies and they stand behind them. Lets face it our differences in life are what makes it all worth living.
I support you even though we support different people
tony a.k.a. isweatbutter, 11:14 PM: @crazy momma - ignorance does indeed go both ways. i have so much that i could say to your comment, but i'll just sum it up by saying:

I CAN'T WIAT FOR THIS ELECTION TO BE OVER. THE ANXIETY IS KILLING ME!

the story behind ssp&e:

so i'm not sure if you're anything like me, but being the 'off the cuff cuisine' chef that i am, i try not to let anything go to waste. you know, when you bring home some bk or mickey d's, and after consuming your poor excuse for food, have ketchup packets or sauce shots left over that you throw in the door and forget about. same goes for chinese food, and you know they always give you enough sauce to put out a fire at the pentagon with your order. you throw them in your refrigerator door and forget about them. then one day you're trying to impress some last minute guests that have decided to stay at your place for dinner and all you have in your 'gourmet' kitchen are some ramen noodles, frozen veggies and some leftover grilled chicken from last weekend's cookout. the makings of a superb, on-the-fly stirfry. but wait, OH SHIT!, how are you going to make a sauce for your stirfry with no sauce? you look in the fridge and all you see is a bottle of ketchup, french's mustard (i use the term mustard loosely when describing french's), and a jar of pickle juice. oh no, what to do, what to do. then you bust open the butter holder, that invariably has never seen a stick of butter in it's life, and VOILA! soy sauce, duck sauce, hot mustard! packets, but instant chinkychow sauce nonetheless! each one of those packets, collected over time, came from a meal, inevitably eaten over conversation, an argument or during a lone lunch of self-reflection, came from a time and place in the past. as are our lessons learned. we learn through the years how to cope, how to inspire, how to teach, and how to live. we don't always remember those lessons, as we throw condiment packets in the fridge we throw life-lessons into the back of our heads, until one day we find ourself in a situation where it becomes relevant and we pull them from the back of our minds as to not waste the advice and lessons of the past. the moral of this story, and the linking of it to my blog- our life experiences are our 'soy sauce packets,' our hidden links to our experiences of our past...

e·piph·a·ny - noun - a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience. [www.dictionary.com]

the epiphanies that we experience in life, questions or situations that we find ourselves in, and don't know how to resolve, can most often be solved my raking our brains in search of a 'soy sauce packet.' an answer to a question. a solution to a problem. and so this, this blog, is simply an ever-expanding culmination of soy sauce packets in my butter box, and the epiphanies that have helped to make room for more butter in my fridge...

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