Tasteless

[supergee]

I’ve never heard anything by Nickelback, but if I do, I fear that I will like it. I don’t know if I have actively bad taste in music or I am the musical analog of Tom Lehrer’s old mess sergeant whose taste buds were shot off in the war.

I am reminded of this because ’tis the season to rag on “Little Drummer Boy.” Granted that a drum solo is not what a new mother needs, but I like the sound. I liked it when the Hairy Simian Chorale did it, I liked it when Johnny Cash did it, and now my favorite is the doo-wop version by the Tokens. I also like “MacArthur Park,” melting cake and all, though I prefer the Waylon Jennings & the Kimberleys version to Dumbledore’s.

Oh yes, and I think that pineapple, unlike cruciferous vegetables, is a nifty thing to put on pizza.

Comments

[nancylebov]

I like "The Little Drummer Boy", I like "MacArthur Park (especially the instrumental part), and I like pineapple with pork products.

[andrewducker]

They're perfectly reasonable rock music. They're just big enough and mainstream enough that it became hip to dislike them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cQh1ccqu8M is the one that made them famous. It's a perfectly competent rock song.

[redbird]

I don't like pineapple on pizza, but I don't see why people consider this a big deal. On the other hand, cattitude and I sometimes ordered pizza with anchovies on half (for him) when we lived near a pizza place where those were available.

The pizza place we sometimes order from here in Massachusetts has gyro meat as a pizza topping, which works well and isn't that different from the more standard meatballs or sausage.

I now feel like trying to put together some kind of chart of pizza toppings, and kinds of bagel, in terms of how "weird" they are, "weird" being some combination of "this was invented recently" and "no, seriously, you think that would go with lox and cream cheese?" On that notional chart, rosemary bagels are new but not weird, and bacon-jalapeño is weirder than blueberry. [I am going to post this, despite its feeling like the sort of apa "mailing comment" that had little to do with the zine it was commenting on.]

[cmcmck]

Given my Italian ancestry, pineapple on pizza?

Ech!

[sleigh]

I've always been of the opinion that if you like a certain band, song, pizza topping, or whatever, you should never let someone else's opinion sway you. YOU like it; your opinion/taste/preference is the only one that matters. Your preferences don't have to align with mine.

[sturgeonslawyer]

Pineapple, corn, bacon and pepperoni: the perfect pizza.

I have no idea whether or no I would like Nickelback. A large part of my taste in popular music is stuck in the late '60s and the '70s: sunshine pop, psychedelia, and "progressive" rock, plus jazz of the Coltrane/Davis variety, so I mostly listen to music I own rather than the radio, and have no real idea of what those kids (who, seriously, should keep off my lawn except for I don't have one) are listening to these days. Except rap. I know about rap, I hear its massive beats coming from cars with speakers so powerful that I do not understand how they don't vaporize the driver's head; I mean I have been at Grateful Dead concerts that weren't that loud. One of my favorite Zen moments -- twenty or thirty years ago, I saw a car with one of those sound systems driving through Oakland, with windows open, and conservative talk radio blaring...

[erik]

My main problem with pineapple on pizza (especially thin, non-Chicago pizza) is that it retains heat a lot better than anything else on the pizza. So you have pizza that has cooled enough not to scald your mouth, with rather large chunks of YEEOUCH THAT'S STILL 400°!