Thursday, April 3, 2025

Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist. 80th Edition. The Tetas, Milk (but not from a cow), Coffee and Whiskey edition.

Okay, I don't know if this blog is "family friendly".  After all, it covers all sorts of topics including some that are pretty adult, if we take the word "adult" to mean what it is supposed to mean, rather than x-rated.  Normally it's fairly serious.

This Zeitgeist addition might not be.

But it is a bit off color.  So, off color warning.

As I think I posted awhile back, the Texas Rangers made a goof on this years special baseball hat edition, in which the first letter of the team's city is appears over the logo, so that the hat spelled out "TETAS", or, in Spanish "tits".

Oops.

They quickly clawed it out, but not before some quick fans ordered them. So, this year, at Texas Rangers games, some bold, probably all men (my wife actually stated to me that she wished she'd ordered one) Rangers fans will go to the game wearing "TITS" hats.

Now, I get some feeds on the first page that comes up when I log on that are food related.  This is probably as I'll look up wild game recopies.  Anyhow, yesterday, there was a story that came up on the front page of Google or Bing or whatever that somebody had introduced breast milk ice-cream.  That was so weird that I hit on the news to be confronted with an ice-cream tub depicting a cartoon lactating breast dropping milk and, yes, it's human  milk ice-cream.

That's really weird.

I'm not even quite sure how that would be legal.  Milk is normally inspected by the USDA if its sold in stores, save for "raw milk" that some people like as they apparently want to risk deadly infections.  Added to that, given that I have a somewhat agricultural mind, my immediate thought was "how do you get a sufficient number of lactating women to . . . " at which point you need to quit thinking about such t hings.  Still, being familiar with production agriculture, you need a lot of cows . . . and then again, you need to stop thinking about it.

Maybe this is what Trump meant by making America great again.  2025 in the weird Trumpverse is the year of the boob or something.

Or the year of tariffs.

On food:

Trump’s Reciprocal Trade Act spells bad news for coffee 

Coffee was already getting pretty expensive.

Trump, of course, doesn't drink coffee.

Trump is apparently a huge Diet Coke fan.  He has a real affinity for junk food, particularly Big Macs.  He apparently also likes steaks, but according to one of his cooks, extremely well done, which is an infamnia.

Scotland is apparently pretty concerned on the 10% tariff dumped on the UK as it might impact whiskey consumption.

Scotch is, in my view (I don't like Scotch) expensive anyway.  I'm more concerned about Irish whiskey, which will be hit with a 20% tariff by the Mango Mussolini's misguided economic policy.

Last edition:

Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist. 79th Edition. The Move along, nothing to see here addition.

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