The "how I will be watching the election results" thread

luka

luka

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burek things are popular in aus too.
we sold a lot of pies in the pie shop. its the 21st century you know.
apart from the beef ones i mentioned there was curry beef. the chicken ones were
chicken and mushroom, tandoori chicken and thai chicken hhahahaha
there was thai broccoli
spinanch and cheese
and vegetable curry

we also had sausage rolls/

does anyone remember pasty italiano by pukka pies? or was it ginsters? that was deep. broken up pasta in a tomato sauce encased in not very good pastry.
 
craner

craner

Beast of Burden
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luka

luka

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yeah i remember that poster in all the chip shops. probably still there. its a great shot.
very sexy.
 
john eden

john eden

male pale and stale
nomadthesecond said:
Speaking of meat pies I love those Jamaican patty things. I think this has been discussed before by the Trinidadian poster with the Gandhi avatar whose name escapes me.
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Gonna try making these soon courtesy of Levi Roots' reggae reggae cookbook.

Will let you know how I get on.
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
Mr. Tea said:
Well the Cornish pasty is an art unto itself, isn't it? Proper ones, I mean, not yer Ginsters motorway-service-station shite.

Then you've got a very similar Argentinian thing called an empanada, Indian samosas, Turkish borek...meat encased in pastry seems to be one of those great cultural invariants.
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Empanadas are sooo good I forgot about those!

Anybody with recipes for these things should start a thread so I can borrow them :D

At some Crown Chicken places you can get pizza egg rolls which are nasty fried but good if you're sufficiently drunk.

Re food and sex in advertisements: I don't get it. I mean I do, they're trying to tell you you'll look sexy if you buy Pukka Pies. But the next thing in the U.S. are ads that turn women's relationships with their cleaning implements into romantic/sexual relationships. Uck. Even worse.




(because women just love cleaning--I'll believe women have made some headway in the world when I finally see a man using cleaning products in a commercial)
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
Ha, yeah we have our own Cillit Banger in Billy Mays of Oxiclean and Kaboom fame:



But both of them are sort of set up as if they're owners of the company, or like laundry scienticians or something whose expertise makes them especially qualified to shill for cleaning products. You don't picture them going home and using the product.
 
Mr. Tea

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Yeah, but the 'sexy/sophisticated' pie advert is so hilarious it's just brilliant, I mean that MUST have been the intention of the advertisers making it, right? Even if not initially, they must have come to recognise the camp ludicrousness of it. A bit like the (much missed) Ferrero Roché adverts with their sublime '80s Euro-glamour. :cool:
 
W

waffle

Banned
nomadthesecond said:
But the next thing in the U.S. are ads that turn women's relationships with their cleaning implements into romantic/sexual relationships. Uck. Even worse.



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They need a Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner! Commodity fetishism to the nth degree: “My Roomba is Rambo”: Intimate Home Appliances."

This one, though, eerily turns out to be a militant prole, staging a go-slow "work to rule":



(because women just love cleaning--I'll believe women have made some headway in the world when I finally see a man using cleaning products in a commercial)
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They do, but it's invariably by appealing to a ego-boosting masculinist posturing ("Mr Muscle"), or, as with the Roomba, a substitute 'pet.'
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
waffle said:
They need a Roomba, a robotic vacuum cleaner! Commodity fetishism to the nth degree: “My Roomba is Rambo”: Intimate Home Appliances."

This one, though, eerily turns out to be a militant prole, staging a go-slow "work to rule":



They do, but it's invariably by appealing to a ego-boosting masculinist posturing ("Mr Muscle"), or, as with the Roomba, a substitute 'pet.'
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LOL. Trilobite's in luuv with that speaker. I don't know if I could even get one to work, there are amps and electronic equipment all over my floors.

I wonder if the magnets in them would ruin one another.
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
Irony, advertising's best friend!

I like the Burger King commercials with the King. And the Simon and Garfunkel mushroom swiss guys.


 
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waffle

Banned
Immanent Circuit

This 'how I will be watching the election results' thread has now come full circle.

Obama as hyper-commodity, a semiotic web-glue of 'participation' and 'involvement': "It is not by chance that advertising, after having, for a long time, carried an implicit ultimatum of an economic kind, fundamentally saying and repeating incessantly 'I buy, I consume, I take pleasure,' today repeats in other forms,'I vote, I participate, l am present, 'I am concerned'." [Baudrillard].
 
nomadthethird

nomadthethird

more issues than Time mag
waffle said:
This 'how I will be watching the election results' thread has now come full circle.

Obama as hyper-commodity, a semiotic web-glue of 'participation' and 'involvement': "It is not by chance that advertising, after having, for a long time, carried an implicit ultimatum of an economic kind, fundamentally saying and repeating incessantly 'I buy, I consume, I take pleasure,' today repeats in other forms,'I vote, I participate, l am present, 'I am concerned'." [Baudrillard].
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Obama himself obviously understands this well. How else do you explain his 30 minute ad buy on several major networks (at a time when the world series was supposed to start, no less), wherein he carefully and not-so-subtly branded himself "Presidential" by depicting himself in an Oval Office-like space, gracefully navigating the room and posing against the desk like he's been in powerful executive positions his entire life?


Seemed to work quite well, too.
 
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