Friday, December 14, 2012

Plan Your Smorgasbord Carefully (or you'll scar your guests for life)

A favorite scene in the movie has Rosemary Clooney sent against her will to the lodge for a midnight snack. (Honestly?  Forcing people to eat in the middle of the night when they aren't even hungry - can you say budding eating disorder? *chuckle*) Unbeknownst to her, the food is a ruse to get her into a romantic dialogue with Bing Crosby.  Here comes the odd part.  As Bing describes the various sandwiches, he expounds on his theory of nutritional oneirifaction (yes, I made that term up to signify the effect of food on dreams - mainly because making up scientific gobbledygook is so much more fun).  When he talks about the effects of turkey and ham sandwiches - he claims they will cause dreams of a blonde "first-sacker-type" and a brunette "a bit on the scatback side".  What kind of man is he - touting sandwich consumption that causes him to dream about football players?  Truly, the take home message here is that unless you are wanting to be scarred for life by some twisted female-football player dreams, the only safe bet is liverwurst -- where you dream only of a repulsive sandwich meat by-product.  Rosemary really dodges a bullet by not eating much that night.  As for her ending up with Bing Crosby, well she might need some of those midnight sandwiches in her future.  *wink* 

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