Stuffing, dressing, and custard guns

Daniel van Eijmeren dve at kabelfoon.nl
Fri Jul 11 13:02:39 CEST 2003


KRITON KYRIMIS to me, 09-07-2003:

>> Does Donald's final comment "Have some more dressing, boys!", in 
>> the custard gun story (WDC 183), have anything to do with the 
>> custard in the story? Or is there another joke in that comment, 
>> if any at all?

> I think it was simply meant as "enjoy your meal, boys", similar to 
> "have another peanut" in "Christmas on Bear Mountain". 

I didn't think of this connection. Scrooge's peanut comment in 
"Christmas on Bear Mountain" (OS 178) was also one that made me 
wonder if there was something more to be read between the lines.

I only know English as a foreign language. 
Sometimes I learn of a double meaning which I didn't see at all. 
And sometimes I expect a double meaning when there simply isn't any.

> I'm sure you've had dinner at some relative who would not be convinced 
> that you had eaten enough if you'd only had one helping! 

No. This was not the case. 

I only meant that the dinner was different than what I was used to. 
I never (or rarely) ate cranberries and pumpkin before, for example. 
Dutch food is rather basic. And the Dutch people know it. So, I'm glad 
with all the import of foreign ingredients and recepies.

DON ROSA, 09-07-2003:

> By the way, I'm not sure if it's been made quite clear yet -- turkey
> dressing is, indeed, the stuffing that is cooked inside the turkey 
> while it roasts, and though it can often be very sweet using fruit as 
> one ingredient (there's an infinite number of ways to make stuffing), 
> it is definitely *never* made of custard or of a custard or pudding-like 
> consistency.

The same type of food can differ from country to country. Even the same 
brands can have different ingredients and flavours. Dutch custard may be 
different from USA custard, for example. So, that's why I was asking if 
something like that could be the case in the custard gun story, trying 
to figure out a double meaning which (as Kriton explains) doesn't seem to 
be there. 

> I'd hate to try to pump a vast turkey cavity full of liquid pudding or 
> figure out how to get it to stay in there, and I don't think the 
> custard/pudding would do well after roasting for 6 or more hours at 
> 400?F or how it would fare with all the turkey's blood & juices mingling 
> into it.  Ecch.

Yes, you're right. Er... I see it's lunch-time, now. But reading this, 
I'm not very hungry anymore. So, I get what you mean. :-)

--- Daniël


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