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Yawn a more Roman way
Apr. 26th, 2012 07:07 pmOh, MasterChef Australia, you minx. You didn't thrill me last year, and I was ambivalent about watching you this season... and then I saw the promo, in which a man roasts a chicken stuffed with a tin can. How can I resist that?
Seriously, is that a thing that people do? It was a whole roast chicken, and instead of stuffing he used, like, a tin of peaches, but he'd taken the label off so I don't actually know what it was a tin of. The ad showed that the countdown was on, the judge was saying, 'Twenty seconds to go,' and this man was trying to pull the tin out but it wouldn't come, so he picked the chicken up by its wings and was trying to shake the tin out. As he was doing that, his voiceover said something like, 'I don't know why it was taking so long, it always comes out really easily,' which suggests that stuffing chickens with tins is something he does on a regular basis. So, yes, pencil me out of action for a couple of hours on Sunday evening while I find out what on earth he thinks he's doing. MasterChef Australia must tailor its ads specifically to interest me. (Except, no, the other ad I saw was a woman panicking because she needed eggs and she didn't have any. That's not interesting. Don't waste my time with that, MasterChef. I just want to know about the man and his chicken.)
Also, I cracked. I bought two new books today. So much for not buying another book until I finish the old ones. I'll just have to add them to the list to be read before I buy any more.
Seriously, is that a thing that people do? It was a whole roast chicken, and instead of stuffing he used, like, a tin of peaches, but he'd taken the label off so I don't actually know what it was a tin of. The ad showed that the countdown was on, the judge was saying, 'Twenty seconds to go,' and this man was trying to pull the tin out but it wouldn't come, so he picked the chicken up by its wings and was trying to shake the tin out. As he was doing that, his voiceover said something like, 'I don't know why it was taking so long, it always comes out really easily,' which suggests that stuffing chickens with tins is something he does on a regular basis. So, yes, pencil me out of action for a couple of hours on Sunday evening while I find out what on earth he thinks he's doing. MasterChef Australia must tailor its ads specifically to interest me. (Except, no, the other ad I saw was a woman panicking because she needed eggs and she didn't have any. That's not interesting. Don't waste my time with that, MasterChef. I just want to know about the man and his chicken.)
Also, I cracked. I bought two new books today. So much for not buying another book until I finish the old ones. I'll just have to add them to the list to be read before I buy any more.