1.                  Chicken wings and bbq ribs are some of the most popular foods that so many people eat.  It just doesn’t make sense.

I can’t order a greasy, fat-filled pizza from Pizza Hut or Dominoes without the pizza faced kid on the other end of the phone asking me if I want hot wings with my meal.  I grew up attending family bbqs (you know the ones with the drunk uncle that is either in love with everyone or mad at everyone) that absolutely had to have some ribs on the grill.  I don’t know if this crosses other cultures, but we Americans are in love with the uselessness of eating chicken wings and ribs.  The epitome of both of these delicacies is based in a lack of meat, but we’ll never realize it. 

If you think about it, every wing you’ve ever seen on a bird is simply skin and bones.  If it weren’t, how could these fowl ever catch enough air to get off of the ground and fly for miles?  Any significant amount of sustenance would weigh the bird down and make their advantage of flight a non-issue. 

If you allow yourself to think a little further, you’ll realize that every time someone criticizes the modeling industry that advocates having extremely skinny women to sell clothes, the amount of ribs we can see on their bodies is an indication that there isn’t much meat on the poor girl’s frame.  The saying is “Get her a cheeseburger,” not a rack of ribs.

I decided a long time ago while sucking on chicken’s bony wings and gnawing on a cow’s ribs that someone must be playing a joke on me.  Some old school farmer from way back in the day was trying to find a way to dump off the useless parts of animals that no one saw a reason to eat, so he found a way to lather scrawny wings and ribs in tasty sauces for the next several generations of suckers to eat…genius!

 

2.                  You know a hotel/motel is not worth staying at if the sign boasts, “Color TV!!”

We live in a country full of travelers; we love to be tourists in a new city and experience new things.  While out of town, a good, comfortable place to stay that hasn’t been exposed by Dateline NBC’s blacklight investigations is absolutely a must.  With so much competition, hotel owners have been trying to attract tourists’ money for decades by advertising their amenities that other establishments may not have. 

In the case of the “hard to find” color televisions in America, one hotel I recently passed while on my way to work…(yes, in 2009) bragged of their COLOR TVs in every unit!!!  If this obsolete luxury of seeing a rainbow of colors rather than black, white, and grays was being offered to me, I guess the lucky residents also enjoy the RUNNING WATER, ELECTRICITY, and TELEPHONES!  Sometimes less advertising is best. 

 

--JJJ

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