This new NBC show Hannibal shows some promise, although I frequently thought that Morpheus had found not only Neo but a nice all you can eat Brazilian meathouse next to an ice cream stand. Then I thought, who are you to judge, fatbody? Other than that, I kind of found it fun.
Also, triscuits are a nice pita/naan substitute for serving as platforms to inhale hummus.
JGabriel
John Cole:
Hey, I’m eating hummus too!
Though mine’s on rye bread with mesclun, spinach, arugula, tomato, and ham. Basically, the hummus is playing the role traditionally reserved for mayonnaise or mustard.
Also an orange on the side.
John Weiss
Triscuits are OK, me and the wife like water crackers better.
JW
Steeplejack
Triscuits can be a little shredded-wheaty. Lately I have been getting Keebler Toasteds (Harvest Wheat) for shoveling the hummus.
There was some other cracker I liked better (Wheatable? Wheatstone? something like that), but as usual my grocery stopped carrying it as soon as they noticed that I was hooked.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: Keebler has a nasty habit of discontinuing items that I thoroughly enjoy. Fuck those little elves and their hollow tree. Yes I’m bitter dammit.
Wheatables were very good. But alas, no longer in existence.
Joseph Nobles
At first I thought the show was designed to make us all vegans, but now we can’t have mushrooms?
YellowJournalism
The triangle-shaped Triscuits would be great wih hummus.
JGabriel
Yutsano:
That sentence is even better taken out of context.
burnspbesq
Somebody, somewhere will have a cow about a Catholic school hiring a gay coach, but if she’s 20 percent as good as a coach as she was as a player, this is a great hire.
http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/9165899/sheryl-swoopes-hired-loyola-chicago-women-coach
Yutsano
@JGabriel: Yes, it is quite delicious on its own isn’t it?
Anonymous37
I can’t believe that Hannibal is on network television. It is far more violent and has much more gruesome imagery than Showtime’s Dexter. The mushroom corpses in episode 2, the lung sausage in episode 1 — NBC must have decided to tell its Standards and Practices to sit on their hands. And things must be so bad for NBC that they’ve decided to gamble in a big way.
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
I thought it was just my store screwing with me. Seriously, anything slightly out of the ordinary that I really get into they mysteriously and suddenly drop. Sam Adams Black Lager, DiGiorno crispy flatbread pizza, Keebler Sandies (chocolate-chip only).
The crackers were Nabisco Wheatsworth.
Redshirt
Keebler exploits his elves.
My favorite snack in the world involves Triscuits. To wit:
Slice of cheese
Slice of veggie
Spices and drizzle of honey
Sprinkle of shredded cheese
Bake in oven at 350 for 11:11.
Serve with hot sauce.
Linkmeister
Frito-Lay no longer sells Toasted Corn Doritos in any supermarket I’ve found in Hawai’i. I’ve had to go to Tostitos or Safeway’s house brand to get yellow corn chips for my taco salads and nachos.
I can’t find Jose Olé’s breakfast burritos anywhere but at the commissary.
Buyers annoy me.
Suffern ACE
Can’t talk long. But does texting make s shallow or are we shallow so we text?
John Cole
@Steeplejack:
I love this sentence because I know exactly what you mean but if you tried to translate to another language it would make no sense, not to mention that Triscuits are nothing BUT shredded wheat, but still I completely understand.
Sometimes they are a bit abrasive and just not what you want. I don’t eat much in the way of crackers, but I will buy triscuits once a month because I can internally explain away the guilt.
But sometimes, I try to fight it, and I really do. I’ll walk the cart past them, try to find something better for me, look at all the labels, etc. But inevitably, once every couple of months, I take that box of Ritz BUTTERY GOODNESS AND LOTS OF SALT AND IT JUST MELTS ON YOUR TONGUE Crackers home and eat a whole god damned sleeve in one sitting while chugging ice cold skim milk out of a half gallon container.
One of these days, I’m going to have to stop redefining what actually is rock bottom in my lifestyle choices. Also, too.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@burnspbesq : It’s not unprecedented. Ever heard of Diane Whipple?
PeakVT
… to inhale hummus
Initially read that as inhale humans. I blame Hannibal Lecter.
Back to bed.
? Martin
Triscuits? My god, the salt… that’s what I most remember about them.
Steeplejack
@John Cole:
I have the same struggle. Don’t often eat crackers, but occasionally need something as a deployment platform for hummus or something else. Ritz crackers are like meth-flavored crack. If you can find the Nabisco Wheatsworth crackers, try those. I liked them a lot, but my grocery suddenly stopped carrying them.
Omnes Omnibus
Someone sounds stoned.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Triscuits are okay, but I prefer Wheat Thins. They’re great for putting cheese, peanut butter, salami, etc on.
Roger Moore
No Dr. Who thread? Not that this week’s episode was particularly worth talking about.
Anne Laurie
@John Cole:
Ugh, my palate is not refined, but Ritz crackers, Velveeta & Hostess Snoballs are the three white trash staples that made me gag even as a small child. Those greezy lil rounds taste like someone mixed a pound of white sugar into a pound of (over)salted butter and added just enough corn starch they could be shaped.
Triscuits, though — Triscuits & Wheat Thins are my go-to crackers. I even love the new “gourmet” flavors (cracked pepper, dill, rosemary, four cheese) and the triangular hybrids. But the triangles are too fragile to scoop hummus or yogurt or any but the thinnest salsa, alas.
Suffern ACE
Hmmm. This thread reminds me that we are coming up on the 120th anniversary of the invention of the product and its introduction of the product. One of many many items rolled out at the 1893 Worlds Fair. May 1 marks 120 years of cream of wheat, juicy fruit, Cracker Jack and brownies.
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: I’ve used both Ritz and Triscuits as a hummus deployment platform. Personally nothing beats a nicely warmed slightly toasted pita, but YMMV.
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Wheat Thins are small for that unless you get the larger size ones. Then oh yeah baby. Of course I’ll just scarf them right out of the box rather shamelessly. This is why I rarely if ever buy them.
JGabriel
@John Cole:
If you like Ritz, try Breton crackers. They pretend to be healthy by including whole wheat, but they taste like the crackers Ritz only aspires to.
Edited to add: Actually, Breton might taste better than Ritz because it actually is marginally healthier.
Suffern ACE
@JGabriel: I think Breton might solve Steeplejacks wheats worth problem. The problem with the Stoned Wheat Crackers is that they have the texture of the wheatsworth, but not the salt. Breton has the salt and the flavor although a different texture.
JGabriel
@Anne Laurie:
Mmm, cracked pepper water crackers are my favorites for cheese. Or soft fresh bread with a crispy crust.
Yutsano
@JGabriel: That website hated me. It said my Javascript was blocked. It isn’t.
@JGabriel: Damn you. Now a nice warm baguette with camembert cheese sounds really damn good.
(I think that’s the frog in me showing.)
The prophet Nostradumbass
Speaking of crackers and the like, if you haven’t had them, you should try some McVittie’s Digestive Biscuits some time, especially the ones with chocolate on one side. From what I can tell, the “digestive” name comes from a literal translation of the French “digestif”.
Joseph Nobles
@Anonymous37: I have to say, Hannibal wasn’t making sausage in any shot that was screened. I wouldn’t put it past him, but we don’t know that actually happened.
Yutsano
@The prophet Nostradumbass: I just thought that was the British term for graham crackers. I just know Nigella uses them for crusts all the time.
JGabriel
@Suffern ACE:
Also, you can taste the shortening in the Stoned Wheat Crackers. Ritz too.
I can’t even Ritz anymore because of that shortening taste.
.
Suffern ACE
@The prophet Nostradumbass: i love those. It’s like a graham cracker. The name indicates that it is the tasty remnant of some sort of health fad from long ago.
JGabriel
Yutsano:
Hmm. Try this link.
I can’t think of any particular reason why it wouldn’t give the same error, but it’s the only alternate address I’ve got.
Oh, wait, here’s an Amazon link.
.
Yutsano
@JGabriel: Okay that one behaved. That should be easily obtained at the local QFC.
karen marie
@John Cole: It turns out, flatbread is really easy to make.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Suffern ACE: Funny, I had never thought of them as being like a graham cracker. To me, they’re a bit to oat-y.
For ages, I had wondered what “digestive” meant, in relation to the biscuits, and then I found some French “digestif” biscuits; think “aperitif” and “digestif” in relation to a meal.
Pete Mack
Just about any snack with surface area is good for inhaling hummus.
Suzanne
I am a cracker fiend. Wheatsworth are fabulous. I can eat a box of Wheat Thins at one time if left to my own devices. Trader Joe’s has these Raisin Rosemary things that are really great with Brie. I am doing Weight Watchers right now, tho, so cracker consumption must decrease. Sigh.
My mom is out of the hospital and has moved in with me for a couple of months. I am hoping that this doesn’t interfere with my masturbation. More sigh.
David Koch
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Wasn’t she married to Mr. Whipple, they guy who used to squeeze the Charmin?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Suzanne: Oh yes, those Trader Joe’s Raisin Rosemary things are great too.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@David Koch: Did you look at the page I linked to?
A woman who was murdered by a pair of psychopaths, because she was a lesbian, and that’s your response?
Yutsano
After a stormy hail-filled afternoon the night has turned to gentle rain. Me get sleeps now.
eemom
wrt the ideal cracker: matzohs. That is all.
NotMax
Forward, into the past: collective future shock. (emphasis added)
David Koch
@The prophet Nostradumbass: you really are a dumbass.
Anonymous37
@Joseph Nobles: Perhaps sausage is the wrong word, but he cuts up the lungs and pan-fries them. Then it’s strongly implied that he serves it to Will Graham with the eggs.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@David Koch: That’s my name, don’t wear it out. What’s your excuse?
Steeplejack
@Suffern ACE:
Hmm, I will check ’em out. Thanks!
Joseph Nobles
@Anonymous37: Yes, I agree with you there, and it could be so. But “could be so” is enough for what I suspect is Hannibal’s purpose there.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I happened to be watching Up with Steve Kornacki on a recording, before I go to bed, and someone on the panel made an interesting observation:
The people who are screaming the most about squashing state-based gun control regulations are the same people who screech about “states’ rights” about marriage equality.
joel hanes
YOUNG CATHERWOOD Don’t you see, Nancy? I’ve built the perfect time machine!
NANCY Oh, it sounds dangerous!
YOUNG CATHERWOOD Yes, that’s why I’m going to try it out first. Now, when I get into this grandfather clock, you hit me over the head with this bottle of Champagne, right here, set the dial for a thousand, and put in three dimes. I’ll be gone for a thousand years.
NANCY A thousand! That’s longer than anyone’s ever been gone before!
YOUNG CATHERWOOD But to you it will seem only like a minute! Very well, my love. Now, forward into the past! (breaking glass/Tardis)
NANCY Gee, I hope he gets back before all this dry ice melts!
NotMax
@joel hanes
“Melanie Haber? (pause) Audrey Farber? (pause) How about Betty Joe Bialowski?”
“Oh, you mean Nancy!”
Hal
I’m giggling at Gossip site Bossip’s headline for Dana Perino’s “rap.”
brendancalling
ah triscuits.
Now to watch MC Puerile. I mean Perino.
joel hanes
@NotMax:
Susan Underhill
NotMax
@joel hanes
Been nearly 45 years since we adapted Nick Danger as a broadcast radio play performed live on stage (complete with pipe organ, even) in high school.
Amazed I retrieved 3 out of 4 from fast-eroding memory.
mai naem
@The prophet Nostradumbass: oooh, my mom luurves Mcvitties Digestives. Just the regular ones. I put them in the cookie category..I love Mcvitties Butter Puffs. It’s kind of like a harder croissant in a cracker form. Just salty enough. I could at half a package in one sitting with no problem.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
This is just cruel, isn’t it?
debbie
Carr’s rosemary crackers are nice, but a bit too delicate for dipping.
daveNYC
Went to college with the actress who plahs the fiber analyst lab lady. You should all watch Hannibal as many times as possible and convince anyone who has a Neilson box to do the same.
schrodinger's cat
Make your own pita chips in the oven. For a healthier version, use whole wheat.
Preheat the oven to about 425
Split the pitas and cut each split half in 8ths. Spray a cookie sheet with oil spray, arrange the cut pitas. Then brush olive oil on the exposed side. Sprinkle kosher salt and any other seasonings you like, like oregano or garlic salt.
When the oven reaches temperature put in your pita chips. Takes between 5 and 7 minutes. Cool them on a rack and dip away.
Maude
I think the name is Towne Crackers. They are wondrous. Anytime there is a more expensive product, our super market removes the cheaper product and replaces it. This has been going on for over two years.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
That might actually work, if they have the half-life of plutonium, but I’m afraid the individual packet wrapping is a deal-breaker. That is cruel.
Mike E
Whoa there…the best way to eat hummus is with twice toasted pita quarters, golden brown with charred black edges. Mah gah!
Kristine
I’m liking Hannibal. Hugh Dancy is marvelous. Digging Mads Mikkelsen, too, but I would flee if I entered a room and found him to be my psychoanalyst. He radiates creepy.
Looking forward to the episodes in which Gillian Anderson plays Lecter’s analyst.
Also enjoying Orphan Black.
Disappointed in Dr Who so far.
Kristine
Hummus! Must make some. I add too much garlic and lemon and roasted red peppers, and I love it.
Toasted pita, hummus, goat cheese, more roasted red pepper, and greens. Lovely sandwich.