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Do you know where the coloring for red velvet cake comes from? Beets. Blintzes, my wife loves them, I like the cheese ones. I’ve never been too big on blueberries, whether it’s pancakes, waffles, blintzes, muffins, pie, or whatever. Too bad, because they’re high in antioxidants. I loved...

The nearest (and Northernmost) Waffle House is an hour South from here. We go there once in a while, and it’s not a trip, it’s a pilgrimage. And one of the reasons I like it is because of the grits. I even make instant grits at home. I know it’s not authentic, but it’s the closest I have. When I...

You must feel sorry for Roosevelt Franklin. In his song about the days of the week, the second verse goes, “Woke up Tuesday morning and I ate my grits and eggs”. Heaven help the fool.

In my younger days, I used to eat McD’s like it was going out of business. It was cheap and easy to shove in my face. Then around my 30th birthday, I decided, I can’t eat this anymore. I still eat it once in a blue moon, but I don’t pig out on it anymore. Love it or hate it, I still like the...

At least at McDonald’s, the eggs in the Egg McMuffins are real. McD’s had this special mold made to cook eggs exactly the same. They’re not fried, they’re not poached, but there is a real egg in there. I know no fast food chain can compare to a real diner or restaurant, but at least there’s IHOP.

It’s okay. But the very idea you could get breakfast from a burger joint was a big fat hairy deal. It was no passing novelty, since every other fast food joint followed suit. I’ve tried just about every fast food variation of a meat, egg and cheese sandwich. Many are mediocre, but none are...

Jerry Lee Lewis should have eloped there. He never would’ve gone to jail.

I was thinking of a show that ran around the same time called Unhappily Ever After. Bobcat Goldtwait played a bunny puppet called Mr. Floppy, but he never left his couch.

I remember that show. In the bonus round, you had to match up numbers to win a car. Being the early 90s, there were a lot of models of cars that don’t exist anymore, like the Suzuki Swift, Subaru Justy, etc. One guy missed by a split second, and cried on Alex’s shoulder. Alex almost gave him the...

I grew up in the 70s, and there were a few cartoons as early as 6 am on weekends. Usually Davey and Goliath, old Bugs Bunny or Hanna Barbers stuff. But as early as 1972, our PBS station, WNET Channel 13 New York, would run blocks of Sesame Street, Electric Company, Mr. Rogers, and Zoom from 7...

McDonald’s had some big firsts in my lifetime. In 1976, when I was eight, they introduced breakfast. A few years before, the Egg McMuffin came out (There’s more in the middle of an Egg McMuffin than an egg in the middle of a muffin!), but now you can get pancakes, sausage, hash browns and orange...

Captain Kangaroo has been on the air for almost 30 years, from 1955 to 1984. It might never have pulled the ratings Sesame did, but CBS still saw fit to give it its 8 am time slot. Here in New York, if Captain Kangaroo was in Sesame’s slot at 9 am, the Captain would’ve gotten creamed.

I grew up with the good Captain. He was a little annoyed when several of his staff- Dave Connell, Jon Stone, and Sam Gibbon- jumped ship to join the fledgling CTW. My favorite memory, Mr. Moose used to tell knock knock jokes. And after the punchline, the Captain would have a million ping pong...

I’ll tell you something else about video game history. In 1982 (8th grade for me) Atari was king. The only other competition, Mattel had a system called Intellivision. That was it. But then in 1983, Atari went bankrupt. How could the biggest company the year before go bust? Anyway, things were...

Yes, back in the early 80s, before Sega Genesis, PlayStation, and Xbox, there was the Atari 2600. Two joysticks, two paddles, 4 bit graphics. And you could buy game cartridges at Sears. The sports games were painfully primitive- Baseball, Football, Bowling, even Atari’s Pac Man was no match to...

I believe it was a chocolate babka with a hair in it.

I got a little handheld device that has four games from MY childhood- Space Invaders, Asteroids, Centipede, and the Mac Daddy of them all, PAC MAN.

Don’t forget the Jewish rye and the babka!

Southern Comfort makes a good one. Unfortunately, after the New Year, you don’t see it again until Christmas.

Am I the only one who likes egg nog?