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The Power Of Words
Dec. 1st, 2005 10:38 pm2c sugar
1c butter
4 eggs
7 ripe bananas
a couple tbsp lemon juice
2.5c flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Makes three 1-pound loaves.
Found myself thinking about what Bill Maher said about Starbucks (*), and what George Carlin has made a career out of observing about euphemisms.
You have to eat half a loaf of this to eat one banana, and with that banana you're getting a third of a stick of butter and a third of a cup of sugar.
This is not "bread". This is cake.
But since we call it "banana bread" I blithely feed it to my children for breakfast.
Ah, the power of words...( Read more... )
1c butter
4 eggs
7 ripe bananas
a couple tbsp lemon juice
2.5c flour
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
Makes three 1-pound loaves.
Found myself thinking about what Bill Maher said about Starbucks (*), and what George Carlin has made a career out of observing about euphemisms.
You have to eat half a loaf of this to eat one banana, and with that banana you're getting a third of a stick of butter and a third of a cup of sugar.
This is not "bread". This is cake.
But since we call it "banana bread" I blithely feed it to my children for breakfast.
Ah, the power of words...( Read more... )
