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May 11, 2010
Humm-dinger
vita-mix hummus, originally uploaded by tofutti break.
I was puttering around home today before I left for work, and by happenstance I glanced at the "trending topics" on Yahoo. I'm not entirely sure how they measure that, but it's usually some people in the news who make up the list. Today, for example, MSNBC star Rachel Maddow was number one. But, and it elicited a genuine "wtf" moment - Hummus was number nine.
Hummus? I had to figure out what that was about. Turns out, there was a pretty good, and tasty, reason for a lot of people to be talking about hummus:
More than 300 cooks were brought in to make the world’s largest plate of hummus that was so massive that it needed to be concocted in a satellite dish with assistance of a robotic arm.
Whoah! That's a lot of hummus!
Now, I am a relatively recent convert to hummus, and I enjoy it in a variety of forms. My favorite is probably using it as chip dip. It's also good in sandwiches. But man - a satellite dish full of hummus? Who is going to eat all that?
Remember those stories you'd hear about a kid whose mom catches him with cigarettes, and then the mom makes him smoke the entire pack? The kid then can't even stomach the idea of smoking another cigarette. It would be like me with all that hummus.
On the plus side, at least nobody here is spelling hummus with an o - hummos. It reminds me of the people who spell yogurt like yoghurt. I don't care if it's more akin to the original spelling - you look like an elitist!
entry no. 1450
Posted at May 11, 2010 12:41 PM