Your video game reference sounded like Mario inching his way up the vines on Donkey Kong Junior.

CW.. i had the same thought! sounded like mario climbing the ladders from the original Donkey Kong (prob sounded the same in DKjr)

Nice…..how is Berry Brothers these days?

I was going to make up something goofy about a fictional CA town.

But when I read about the real place, truth was stranger than fiction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boonville,_California

Boonvillites (Boonvillains?) strike me as the kind of folks who would really enjoy a Coke-Quik-Polish Strawberry-Wisconsin Cheddar blend!

Bill V.

Did you say Thundercats!!! By far my favourite cartoon as a kid….yes!!!!

Gary,

You need a haircut bro. You’ve got little wings sprouting out upon your lid.

Grackle.

nice gary……IM from WV…..we have a Boone County here……talk about an inbred mess! I hope the people of booneville are civilized enough not to do any thumping with their siblings and stick with the vino production.

Boonville…. not sure what it’s like, but I just came back from a week in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties and it is the COUNTRY. I know that the wine industry makes wine look oh-so-cosmopolitan, but it was refreshing to see how down to earth, normal, and, yes, small-town the folks are up there. I am a real fan of eccentric towns (and their residents), so I had a field day in that part of California. If Boonville’s even half as odd as the towns in West Sonoma County, then it should be a treat!

Boonville, CA…
hope it is not too much like
Boonville, NC!
Boonville, NC is
seriously red neck.
I hope
Boonville, CA is pretty
and
quiet.
🙂

Gary-
I couldn’t stop laughing
when I heard the
blender story!
TOO
Funny!
🙂

BV, I agree with you that truth is indeed stranger than fiction. I mean, after reading that Wikipedia entry, how do you top that?

Nice screw-cap toss. You always hit the lens. You’re so athletic!

Kasha on the nose? My mother in law always makes kasha varnishkes with the little bow ties, and I think it tastes kinda metallic…

You had blender dementia as a kid? For me, it was microwave dementia. When we first got one in the ’70s, I used to nuke everything just see what would happen. (But no animals or metal objects.) Try microwaving a cup of marshmallows for about 45 seconds. Hilarious. Good luck cleaning the cup though.

Pinot vs. merlot. I still think back to that earlier episode when you pointed out that Miles’ favorite wine in the movie was Chat. Cheval Blanc, which I didn’t realize was a merlot! (Actually 66% cab. franc, 33% merlot, 1% malbec.) Cracked me up that most of the public (including me) didn’t know this. Over the weekend, the wife and I opened a merlot. A 2002 Murphy-Goode Alexander Valley Merlot. Nice mix of cigar box, dark chocolate cherry… A good $18 experience.

Also, we opened a bottle of the 2005 Von Hovel Oberemmeler Hutte Kabinett Riesling. Wow! Thanks for that recommendation (Episode 169).

Finally, have fun in London.

Gary, your flavor profile metaphors kill me every time

“Think about going to Cuba, smoking some great cigars and watching people shoot pigs, as they run around”

I think that the video ganme you are thinking of was Dig Dug where you go mining for something or other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_Dug
http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/DigDug.htm

Dan (in Houston. I am a mining engineer)

I agree with previous posts- sounds like Donkey Kong to me (you even have the arm motion down!)

BV,
Thanks for the link on the real Boonville, CA.
It sounds just like Booneville, NC.
Scary, huh?
🙂

Gary; don’t know “manikasha” per se and don’t know your ethnic background, but my orthodox Jewish grandma made kasha all the time and perhaps the “kasha” is the same-buckwheat groats. Very distinctive smell. You either love it or hate it. Nutty-woody-earthy smell but even then, you just have to smell it. The stuff is very high in iron and good for you-pick up any vegetarian cookbook of note, and there will be buckwheat groat recipes. You can buy the stuff in the grocery stores in the ethnic food isles. The Jewish way-simmer onion in oil til translucent. Reserve the onions and then coat a cup of the grains with beaten egg, then toast the kernels (or groats, whatever you want to call ’em) in the pan til separated. Pour in two cups of hot chicken stock and then the sauteed onion. Kashavarnishes-same thing but add parboiled bowtie pasta with the stock and onions. Probl’y more than you need to know about Kasha.

I think your video game noise was Space Invaders…have a listen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqyKpJwk29o

“Lost our nards” ???
“Give me the snout!” ???
“Punch the other moms” ???

AWESOME episode!

I think they were called Otter Pops.
Each flavor had a character…
Louie Bloo Raspberry, Alexander the Grape… you remember!

the video game you were thinking of…

DIG-DUG!

right?

SS Chris: Now THAT is a nice mom!

My problem was I was always sneaking them out of the freezer behind her back 😐 Hahahahaha…but this was a great episode.

The punching the other moms comment…instant classic.

Can’t go wrong with Pinot though unfortunately the good ones seem to be a tad pricey. I know, I know, a finicky grape that needs to be nurtured in almost pristine conditions but still, let’s try to keep it under $40 which most winers find it hard to do.

QOTD: Boonville? Maybe this is where Boones Farm is located? My QOTD: Is Boones Farm really “wine?”

Last but not least, great show.

Have fun in merry olde England.

Cheers

I think the game is called ice climbers

OK, you lost me half way through the frozen-unfrozen thing.

Gary,
Fun episode. I think you had some espresso before taping.
It’s Boone, NC, not booneville. Home of Appalachian State, the Division 1-AA football champs for the last 2 years running.
JW