Christmas

Food update: only one food was almost left behind. The salad. We don't really have a rule established to deem when one is "almost forgotten" versus "forgotten" so I'm just making one up now: if it's more than halfway through the meal, then we forgot it.

The weird event or discussion of the year: it had to be the pam®. Listen now, I told Brooke she should blog on this, and she deferred. I can't do it justice becausSe I was laughing too hard (complete with tears streaming down my face) to hear parts of it. So here are snippets.

--sorry for all the ® but I don't want to get sued for patent infringement--

JR (my bro): A friend had "Spam®Fest '98" at a house in Manzanita, and JR happened to be in town with his in-laws. JR located Spam® at the local market. Not just regular Spam®, thank you, but Special Edition Hickory Spam®. Knock, knock, "I have Spam®, can I come in?"

JR: "You know Monthy Python invented Spam®."

Mom: "He did not."

JR: "Yes, in my mind, he did because of the xxx episode..."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8huXkSaL7o

JR: "And there was the time Joan made a whole dinner of Spam®."

Joan: "Well we had to do something with it. Bill keeps buying all these cans of Spam®."

JR: "She made Spam®, Spam®, Spam®, and sausage Spam®."

Another thread: Mom, "There's some place in the midwest that has a Spam® festival." So out comes the smart phone. Lo and behold, there is more than one Spam festival®. One is on the delta (Mississippi? unclear) and “Women dominated the Spam® Festival. The sculpting winner presented a small bear, while another woman defeated a group of men by eating a can of Spam® in under four minutes,” said Joe. “A group of girls also won the Spam® toss.”

JR: "I ordered a special-edition Spam® from Hawaii."

Mom/Julie/Brooke in unison: "But why?"

More than one person pointed out that Hawaii is the top per-capita Spam® consumer, and not just by a little bit.

If you want to know more about Spam® (but: why?), here's a link: www.spam.com/games/Museum/default.aspx
Oh hey! Spam® is the same age as my mom!

note the "aura" shining around the Spam® museum picture.

Group tours of the museum are a popular activity. Seriously?

Update on forgetting food.

Long ago I wrote about forgetting Thanksgiving food. See: http://juliebike.blogspot.com/2009/11/thanksgiving-and-forgettin-stuff.html

Update: this year it was the cranberry sauce! Yes, near the end of dinner Mike asked, "Honey, didn't we have cranberry sauce?"

Oh, yes. Usually he makes it, but I did it this year. Two batches, one regular and one sugar-free. I put it in the "outside fridge" which means on the table on the patio.

Don't you just love traditions?