Friday, January 18, 2008

Mike Huckabee's down home dorm cooking

So, since stupid things like "real life" and "classes" and "quantum mechanics" have made it so that we haven't been able to post much in the last week, I thought I'd share some news from campaignlandia, where the next stops are Nevada and South Carolina. Both parties vote in Nevada, starting tomorrow around noon, and the Republican votes from SC will start coming in sometime tomorrow evening. In other words, since it's going to be a balmy 7 degrees fahrenheit tomorrow (or -13 C, if you prefer), it'd be a perfect day to stay inside and watch politics on tv while not freezing to death.

South Carolina, in fact, is where the most interesting news is coming from. Our good friend Mike Huckabee, eager to prove his southern folksiness, gives us this valuable tidbit:


When I was in college, we used to take a popcorn popper - because that was the
only thing they would let us use in the dorm - and we would fry squirrels in a
popcorn popper in the dorm room.

So yeah. Obviously, there's a whole aspect of dorm cooking that I've never experienced. Next time I'm hungry in the middle of the night, I'll just go out and find a squirrel. There's no way this could possibly go wrong.

2 comments:

Kaitlyn said...

What is a popcorn popper? Is that even a real appliance? Are we talking about a microwave here, or is this more the jiffy pop style popcorn you would pop on a hot plate. Either way...I'm forgoing the obvious 'why' involved in this situation...it's Mike Huckabee.

Ryan said...

I'm guessing it looks something like this: http://www.sweetmarias.com/perfpopp.jpg

So, essentially, a metal bucket that you could fit a squirrel and some oil in.


But still, the fact that he had to a) catch a squirrel and b) deep fry it in a popcorn maker makes Huckabee a million times the dorm chef I am. I just manage to make a nice incision into the skin of my finger while trying to cut cheese to make nachos. Clearly, I can never run for president.