You’re lucky you have the option for anchovies on half. The pizza places I’ve been to either don’t have anchovies at all, or they insist you have them on the whole pizza. I assume that’s because, if they’re going to stock anchovies at all, then they have to move them fast.
No, it is because if you have 'chovies on half, both halves taste and smell like 'chovies.
I dont know how solost gets away with it.
Why would they care about that? In any case, it’s not really true.
Because then they get complaints and returned pizzas.
Try it, you will see what I mean.
I have, and have never had someone who ate the other half complain about it.
I know “picky picky picky” but not Pat. I had no idea it was related to anything in particular. My parents didn’t watch TV, so I must have picked that up at school.
Thurston Howell III is another joke that’s lost some of it’s early meaning. The disappearance of which well known millionaire was explained away by his staff in 1950?
In 1968 I was ten, and a huge Pat Paulsen fan. I wrote to him and he sent me an autographed 8x10. I actually believed he had a shot at the presidency.
That sounds more like an old joke about nagging,belittling Jewish mothers.
One variant: a young boy works hard and grows up to become a very wealthy man. He buys a yacht, which he invites his mother aboard. She remarks on his captain’s hat: “Sammy, to you you’re a captain; to me, you’re a captain. But to captains, you’re no captain!”
Yeah, that makes more sense. Geddy Lee is Jewish, so it’s probably something he had heard before.
I was watching an episode of the Simpsons the other day when they made a reference to an obscure1970’s TV series The Roman Holidays. Seriously, how many people have even heard of that series?
Did the Romans spend their holidays at HOT L BALTIMORE, back when things were rotten?
Wow. That is obscure (and I’m someone who watched the animated series “Wait Til Your Father Gets Home” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wait_Till_Your_Father_Gets_Home)
Anchovies are packed in oil and the oil does spread, although not to the whole pizza. It would maybe contaminate the edge of the two slices next to it. But the aroma is strong if you’re opening a box while the pizza is hot. People tend to “taste” what they’re smelling.
I used to get around complaints by asking for the anchovies on the side. That avoids creating hot anchovy oil. And there’s no complaint that an anchovy touched their slice.
I never watched that show but I knew it was on. I’m sure they were poking fun at Hanna-Barbera cartoons again, the one time leader in prime time animation with the Flintstones, but also the object of ridicule within the animation industry for the extensive use of the stock system that had Fred and Barney often described as the two ventriloquist’s dummies. Numerous scenes in the show had no new animation at all, just different dialog over the old footage.
Yep, altho sure only two slices are 'contaminated" the entire pizza smells 'chovie. Especially if you have 'shrooms, which tent to pick up aromas .
I’ve not only heard of it, I’ve seen it, broadcast in UK mid 80’s.
No, it wasn’t a parody, it was actually made by HB, trying the same formula that made The Flintstones a sucess.
I meant the Simpsons were poking fun at HB.
That’s nothing. I’ve heard that Dragonball Z averages ten new frames per episode.
Re: Soupy Sales, there was a season 2 (1996) episode of Friends in which Phoebe believes she is possessed by the spirit of an old lady who died on her massage table.
Phoebe, to Rachel’s mother: “Such a pretty face! You remind me of Edna Goldschmidt*. Of course, that was before the bad face-lift. Now she looks like Soupy Sales!”
Joey: “Uh, Phoebe, who’s Edna Goldschmidt?”
Phoebe: “I don’t know, who’s Soupy Sales?”
So even 24 years ago, Soupy Sales was being used as shorthand for “old person’s celebrity,” but I think most young people then still got the reference, hence the joke that Phoebe didn’t understand her own line.
*I don’t recall the actual name used, but it’s not important.