Comments on: The political history of food http://dkwatson.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/the-political-history-of-food/ Thoughts from my mental, physical, and literary traveling Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:42:30 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mysteries of Modern China « Geek Buffet http://dkwatson.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/the-political-history-of-food/#comment-169 Mysteries of Modern China « Geek Buffet Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:40:27 +0000 http://dkwatson.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/the-political-history-of-food/#comment-169 [...] very entertaining, with occasional bursts of wry humor in unexpected places. (See here and here for [...] [...] very entertaining, with occasional bursts of wry humor in unexpected places. (See here and here for [...]

]]> By: Mary http://dkwatson.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/the-political-history-of-food/#comment-146 Mary Sat, 15 Sep 2007 18:40:06 +0000 http://dkwatson.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/the-political-history-of-food/#comment-146 I'm usually exhausted by Christmas Day. A bucket from the Colonel doesn't sound like such a bad idea (the big shindig is on Christmas Eve and there is brunch Christmas morning.) As it is, I've resorted to ordering the ham dinners in a box from Meijer. My stepdaughter-in-law, who can sniff a deal from a mile away, discovered one year they sell the unclaimed (pre-ordered) ones for half-price shortly before they close for the only time all year, so we kick everybody out of my house by 5 on Christmas Eve so we can go wait for the announcement. Unfortunately, it didn't happen for a year or two, so now I just pre-order them at full price. However, if KFC were actually open on Christmas, I would totally do that and pass out in front of a DVD that someone had gotten in their stocking (I always give them something I want to watch.) The KFC thing is marketing, but I'm curious about the origin of the strawberry cake myth. This is not food related, but one of my young male Japanese students also once informed me in an essay that it is impossible to find a room in a "love hotel" in Japan on Christmas day. It sounds like a very different celebration there. I’m usually exhausted by Christmas Day. A bucket from the Colonel doesn’t sound like such a bad idea (the big shindig is on Christmas Eve and there is brunch Christmas morning.)

As it is, I’ve resorted to ordering the ham dinners in a box from Meijer. My stepdaughter-in-law, who can sniff a deal from a mile away, discovered one year they sell the unclaimed (pre-ordered) ones for half-price shortly before they close for the only time all year, so we kick everybody out of my house by 5 on Christmas Eve so we can go wait for the announcement. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen for a year or two, so now I just pre-order them at full price.

However, if KFC were actually open on Christmas, I would totally do that and pass out in front of a DVD that someone had gotten in their stocking (I always give them something I want to watch.)

The KFC thing is marketing, but I’m curious about the origin of the strawberry cake myth. This is not food related, but one of my young male Japanese students also once informed me in an essay that it is impossible to find a room in a “love hotel” in Japan on Christmas day. It sounds like a very different celebration there.

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