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It’s last GLoP of 2018 and we go out with a….shot of eggnog. Actually, we go out with some concise commentary (or rank punditry®, whichever your prefer) on the cuisine and beverages of the holiday, what the heck is going on at CBS, a fond farewell to Penny Marshall, a rave review for Spiderman: Into The Spider-Verse, and a pick for the 2018 time capsule. Thanks for all the Goldberg giggles in ’18 and we’ll see (hear?) you next year.
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I always thought at the climax of “A League Of Their Own” that Kit actually makes Dottie drop the ball by running her over. Which irritates me, as Kit is insufferable.
As to eggnog, I’ve made this for the last few years, and after a month of aging it is fantastic: https://altonbrown.com/eggnog-recipe/. It’s unlikely to convert an eggnog hater, but it isn’t super thick after it ages for a while, so if that’s what you don’t like about it, it might work for you. Plus all the booze in it might make you forget that you hate eggnog.
Alton Brown (at the link Mr. Campbell provided) recommends aging even longer: “my peak target generally being between 4 and 6 months.”
Leaving eggs and milk open for months? The thought would scare off all but the most intrepid and enthusiastic eggnog fans!
Penny Marshall movies aren’t exactly known for their subtlety, so I doubt it was ambiguous. I haven’t seen ALOTO in 25 years, but that would be my guess: That Davis threw the ballgame for her sister.
But I’m prepared to be wrong here.
After about three weeks the booze kills off any salmonella in the eggs, as well as pretty much anything else, so it’s pretty safe to store for long periods of time, as long as you use clean, sealed containers. I let half of my first batch age for a year, and taste-tested it every couple of months. It was too thin for me after a year, and I thought at two months it was about perfect. But of course, YMMV.
It’s certainly possible to believe that Dottie “deliberately” let the ball go, if someone wishes to do so. But considering how hard they collided, I would argue that non-deliberate should be the default position. Unless you just hate the movie.
“Hate”?? Hmmm. I remember thinking it was pretty mediocre (despite a terrific cast and two funny writers, Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel), and I’ve never been driven to watch it again, but no, I wouldn’t say as though I “hate” it.
Not “hate.” No.
I’ve been making Alton Brown’s recipe from his Good Eats show for years now. I didn’t know about his aged recipe. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll have to give it a try.
Found online:
In your discussion of the Happy Days universe and Eddie Mekka who played Carmine on Laverne & Shirley, you left off some significant trivia.
Mekka simultaneously played Carmine’s cousin Joey on Blansky’s Beauties.
Blansky’s Beauties (set in real time in the 1970s) was also noteworthy in being a partially anachronistic spinoff of Happy Days. Blansky (Nancy Walker) was Howard Cunningham’s cousin.
I am preparing to make Rob’s Egg Nog recipe, with fresh grated nutmeg, for the second time. I have always tolerated egg nog, now I like it. It just needed to become a milkshake.
Rum and melted vanilla ice cream and nutmeg sound great. But I don’t thin that is mutmeg.
Ok, urgent message for Rob Long: Rob, much like what you explained about eggnog, you, too, have never had real gefilte fish. What you’ve had is most likely the Manischewitz stuff that comes in a jar, and is not only fake gefilte fish, but is also, in my opinion, the root cause of most anti-Semitism in the United States. Real gefilte fish comes in a loaf, and is absolutely delicious. Next time you’re in NY, come to Crown Heights, stop in to Raskin’s or BenZ’s (two brothers with competing gefilte fish enterprises), and get yourself a loaf of real gefilte fish. Take it home, stick in the oven, let it cool, and your (now-informed) opinion of this food so sacred to my people will be forever changed.
Rob talking about the movie titles not “sounding like movies” struck a cord with me. I really don’t watch too much current entertainment – I dig the old stuff, so the old stuff is what I watch. As a result, I don’t know the names of most modern actors or shows or movies, which makes them feel imaginary to me, like the imaginary films that would show up in Seinfield episodes (Rochelle Rochelle … a young girl’s erotic journey from Milan to Minsk). We, the viewers, are supposed to believe that these imaginary actors and films are well known to the other characters. It has created an odd displacement for me from the modern world, but has also helped me understand the intangibility of pop culture in any era. When I was a part of the entertainment mainstream, it was solid, important and real. Now that I ignore it, it seems to have lost its substance and importance.
But not Rob’s shows, of course. Those are still super important.