{"id":27604,"date":"2021-01-31T06:16:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T12:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27604"},"modified":"2021-01-31T06:16:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T12:16:51","slug":"the-source-of-the-thing-that-dad-always-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/31\/the-source-of-the-thing-that-dad-always-says\/","title":{"rendered":"The Source of the Thing That Dad Always Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever one of the boys is somewhere that I want to sit, I say to him, &#8220;Move over, bacon.  Now there&#8217;s something meaner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you are of a certain age, you probably remember the Sizzlean commercials.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KERQgZJcE2M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Actually, I more remember this one, but instead of <em>leaner<\/em>, they say <em>meatier<\/em>.  Which could still work as the source, but although I remember the commercial more clearly, I remembered the <em>leaner<\/em> tag line, so that&#8217;s what I was riffing on.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a6801d-ll_Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more about Sizzlean, see <a href=\"https:\/\/culinarylore.com\/food-history:what-happened-to-sizzlean-bacon\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">What Happened To Sizzlean Bacon?<\/a> (short answer: the article does not answer the question definitively, does no actual reporting but reading Wikipedia, but provides content for the Internet with a couple of nostalgic YouTube embeds for the oldsters) as recommended by the <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/392332.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Ace of Spades HQ Overnight Open Thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Truly, the 70s and 80s were a magical time of bastardized meat products such as Sizzlean and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steak-umm\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Steak-umms<\/a>.  Okay, I know their real birthdates fall outside of that window, but their advertising were at their peaks during my formative years.<\/p>\n<p>And even though they&#8217;re eldritch and unholy combinations of meat bound together by dark arts, I&#8217;d still order them before tofurkey or Impossible anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever one of the boys is somewhere that I want to sit, I say to him, &#8220;Move over, bacon. Now there&#8217;s something meaner.&#8221; If you are of a certain age, you probably remember the Sizzlean commercials. Actually, I more remember this one, but instead of leaner, they say meatier. Which could still work as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daddy-always-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27606,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604\/revisions\/27606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}