14 December 2006Old buttermilk skyLileks, on the Pillsbury Doughboy:
What was his goal, exactly? Perhaps he wanted to shape our conceptions of dough not what it was, but what it could be. Perhaps and more likely, really he had found himself come to life, realized that a horrible life of experimentation and confinement awaited, and deftly disarmed the Meat Giants by tempting them with delicious biscuits and sugar-drenched rolls. We can only imagine him alone at night, his day's work done, trying to shape dough into the form of a companion, and breathing into its mouth. Failure; every time, failure. He wept small clear perfect tears, and they tasted like beer.)
This narrative skips over the fact that there was once a Doughgirl at his side, to greet him with a smile, to comfort him when the croissants wound up curved in the wrong direction. But she disappeared almost as quickly as she had appeared, which would no doubt explain his sorrow, his desolation. Nobody ever explained what had happened to her: had a defective can caused her to explode? Did something from the oven prove to be her undoing? Was it something as simple as a yeast infection? To this day, no one at Pillsbury is saying. Posted at 7:37 AM to Almost YogurtThere's a spot in his backyard where the grass grows a little greener. Could be the septic tank, I don't know. Just sayin'. Posted by: McGehee at 2:27 PM on 14 December 2006Don't get me started now on Charlie Tuna's deathwish. Posted by: Mister Snitch! at 11:47 AM on 15 December 2006 |