Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 14, 2010

“Annoying Karaoke” isn’t that redundant?

I don’t tolerate peas and I don’t go to Karaoke joints. doo-doo-do-doo-do-do-do-doo

Grog - me, either! Fancying creating a fan page on facebook about this?!

@LordDogmore - tautological even?

Peas=like Karaoke=dislike with a passion unlike that which none have seen or experienced like fire lancing across your forehead driving the pain into your frontal lobes causing total insanity.

Mornin’ all. Where are all the pithy comments today?

I’m with her on the peas thing. I’ll eat ‘em, but I don’t really want to!

Last time I bar-hopped with girlfriends to Karaoke was back in the late 70s, in Mexico ;-)

What? There are people who don’t like peas? Suffering Succotash! I love ‘em!

if everybody liked the same things to eat and do….. then there would be great shortages and much crowding

John Pike: We’re not pithed enough to make comments….yet.

Cool!!!!

I agree with Lord D. But I like canned peas, but not fresh or frozen. Go figure?

JDG yegads!! Canned peas taste like the can, whereas fresh and frozen are sweet tasting. But, each to their own.

As far as Danae is concerned, boy am I glad that I do not have kids. LOL

I wasn’t aware that Danae was French. I thought she only kissed that way.

Je peux pas blairer ce debile de Joe de OK. Il emmerde le monde avec tous ses betise monumental.

The trouble with brain-droppings is they’re not even useful for fertilizer!

Oh Grog - give peas a chance!

CELECCA Imagine that. Want me to sing a few bars?Sunday style karaoke.

OK, I must not be cute enough, I tried this and my wife still refuses to let me order an iPad.

Before facebook and twitter they may have had a life, no before sitting in front of a computer mindless searching the web they may have had a life.

visualize peas

visualize whirled peas

I always wanted that t-shirt!

What Twitter-like responses!

INoid. Dominoes meets Apple meets Danae.

More than you ever wanted to know:

“Although Monterey Jack is an American cheese, it was developed before California entered the Union, and it actually has a long and colorful history. Franciscan monks in monasteries around the Monterey region first started making the cheese in the 1700s, creating a cheese which is aged only briefly before being served. The cow’s milk cheese is semi-firm with a creamy, mild flavor and a high moisture content. Mexican and Spanish inspired cuisine in California often uses Monterey Jack, and the cheese also melts very well, making it quite suitable for grilled cheese sandwiches.

In the late 1800s, an entrepreneur named David Jack realized that a commercial market for the cheese might exist, and he started selling it in other parts of California. The cheese acquired the name “Monterey Jack’s” or “Jack’s Monterey,” which later evolved into Monterey Jack. Since the cheese is highly versatile, it quickly became a popular seller. Other dairies around California and elsewhere in the United States also began producing Monterey Jack, although some consumers prefer the cheese from Monterey county.

There are a number of variations on the classic Monterey Jack cheese. Some producers add herbs or hot peppers to make herbed Jack or pepper Jack cheeses. Monterey Jack is also sometimes blended with Colby, another mild American cheese, to make Colby Jack. One of the most coveted varieties of Monterey Jack is dry Jack, an aged version of the cheese which can be difficult to find outside of California. Dry Jack acquires a much more complex, sharp flavor and it turns hard enough to be grated and used like Parmesan.”

P.S. You can’t beat grated Dry Jack for homemade enchiladas - good stuff.

Ushindi –

Yes, that was more than I thought I wanted to know, but it was very informative. Thank you!

Yes, thanks, Ushindi– and I should also add to (oh, I dunno whom), “Don’t get pithy with me, thister!”

Canned peas are too mushy for me. Give me fresh or frozen peas any day. The best peas I have ever eaten were sugar snap peas, uncooked and in the pod… fresh off the vine. Yum!

No need to thank me - I have sworn to use my powers to do only good…

I like snow peas, but beyond that, Bluck.

Celecca, I gave peas a chance all through my growing years. Then when I moved away from my parents, I dropped them like a hot potato - but I love potatoes of all kinds and broccoli, which I was never served growing up. Mom served peas because she liked them - but she didn’t like broccoli.

It’s amazing to me that a strip about one topic can uncover a whole other topic among it’s readers. Who knew there were so many pea detractors out there? LOL

Ushindi, You deserve a big Thank’ee. I am a cheese lover and in fact I like creamed peas with melted cheese. I’d love to try the dry Jack. Fresh and properly frozen peas are best.

Gag me with a spoon, Justice22.

“These voices in my head!?” “Make them stop, please!” Oh, it’s just my own inane ramblings…Hmmmm… If only there were a forum? Who wants to be a billionaire?

Ushindi, I don’t even like cheese and I enjoyed the information. It actually answers one of Danea’s questions…. BTW, there is nothing better than green pea soup with chunks of ham…..oh, and oyster crackers! Mmmm………..

I agree, Varnes – Mmmmm… and mushy peas, English style – love peas any way I can get them. It’s the boiled okra my Okie-mom used to serve that made any other veggie a veritable taste sensation, by comparison. Yep– a choice between peas and okra? It’s peas every time!

ushindi is correct about monterey jack cheese being developed before david jacks was born. note i did say “jacks”, not jack. being from here on the peninsula, my face would be extremely red if caught saying otherwise.

also, the best way to eat peas, other than snap peas, is in a soup with large chunks of ham in it…YUMMMMM!

Ushindi, good info on Monterey Jack. Lived in Monterey County for five years and never heard this.

I know Alton Brown has done at least ONE show featuring peas (“Give Peas a Chance,” naturally) and contends that most of us simply overcook our peas. (And we, too often, use nearly flavorless canned peas.)

Having spend a portion of the “ore-wasted” term of my wasted youth, I recall the jack cheese in the greater Monterey area (Including Pacific Grove, and Marina-del Mar, just north of Fort Ord) being more flavorful than it has been since our family migrated north.

Shakespeare actually had to toss a coin to choose whether it was lawyers or “karaoke-ists” to go first. He even went for two out of three.

So people should “tolerate peas in a pod”?

“Annoying karaoke” is a tautology

I used to like peas, but now I think they taste gross.