Episode 24: Pronto Pups and General Chow

[Playing In Peoria]

The PiPers are joined today by food impresario, Leena Trivedi-Grenier.  Leena is a gastronomist and runs the website, LeenaEats.com.  She leads us through a delicious journey where we explore food on sticks, allergies, and create the greatest restaurant the world has ever known.

http://playinginpeoria.org/pipcast/2008/11/17/pronto-pups-and-general-chow-episode-24/

[Dustin]

What kind of food on a stick would everyone else make?

Here is the secret to nachos on a stick:

http://www.murphyhorner.com/2003/08/the_state_fair.html

[Dustin]

So scrumptious looking--

[Evanod]

FIRST!---I don't even know what the means. I see the kids doing it on all the  message boards though...TLDNR! l33t!

[Kurt]

I love when Dustin suggests that you can either go to Sweets or Salties school when studying culinary arts.

I miss Tim Tams. I want more.

[Dustin]

I didn't know Pronto Pups were a racial thing against Mexicans.

[Dustin]

They were good enough for John McCain!

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/07/17/mccain_bites_dog.html

[Dustin]

I find him funny.

[Kurt]

Two things:

1. Were white people complaining that Mexicans did not make corn dogs quickly enough, and therefore had to invent Pronto Pups to both speed the process and have revenge against Mexicans?

2. Is that last Pronto Pup cooking himself?

[Dustin]

That last one was the Sylvia Plath of stick food.

[Kurt]

Zing!

I believe one of our forum members knows a little something about Sylvia Plath...hint hint Jamie...

[spacedaisie]

hmm.... all i know about is sticking my head in a cardboard oven.

[Kurt]

Picture! That's what we need, Jamie, picture!

[Jesse]

Here are my "in a perfect world" suggestions for food on a stick:

Pumpkin pie
Lasagna

Those are my favorite foods and would only be enhanced by the ability to eat them on a stick.  The logistics of getting them to stay on a stick is probably the only thing that holds me back from doing it.

As for a real suggestion that I could see being on a stick:

Pierogi
Pirozhki

Basically a pierogi on a stick would be like an East European version of a Chinese potsticker and would be pretty awesome.  According to the Wikipedias there are Chinese places that bill their potstickers as "Chinese pierogis".  There may very well be some places that already do the East European version and I am just unaware but would love to be made aware.  As for Pirozhkis, basically the idea is a completely functional one.  I always have a really hard time eating Pirozhkis because of how absolutely blazingly hot they are even on the outside.  They always burn my hands when I try to eat them (and my mouth but there is almost no getting around that) so putting them on a stick would make them much easier to eat.

[Jesse]

So, I listened to Episode 11 just before you guys put this one out and in that episode Kurt and Evan berated Dustin for using the phrase "I'm just saying."  Leena was constantly saying that phrase during this episode.  Were you guys cringing internally?