{"id":183144,"date":"2015-02-21T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T04:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/21\/life-imitates-megas-xlr\/"},"modified":"2015-02-21T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T04:55:00","slug":"life-imitates-megas-xlr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/02\/21\/life-imitates-megas-xlr\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Imitates Megas XLR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pdb1_6hgQwQ?start=430\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>The Bit at 7m 10s is Very Similar to the Pizza<\/i><\/div>\n<p>There is a bit in the <i>Megas XLR<\/i> episode &#8220;Space Booty&#8221; where Coop, when confronted with a food synthesizer, orders a &#8220;Philly Cheesesteak, wrapped in bacon, and deep fry it.&#8221;&nbsp; (It should be queued up on the embedded video)<\/p>\n<p>That was all that I could think of when I read about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2015\/02\/18\/little_caesars_bacon_wrapped_crust_deep_deep_dish_pizza_is_a_triumph_of_human_ingenuity\/\">Little Caesars\u2019 bacon-wrapped deep dish pizza<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Guys, I love junk food. My Salon \u201cbrand\u201d is to judge fast food  conglomerates for poisoning millions of people until they die from heart  disease and stuff, and yeah, I\u2019m still of the mind that these companies  are basically evil. But also it\u2019s nearly 4 p.m. and I want a snack so  much. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m having trouble mustering the requisite outrage  for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlecaesars.com\/OurMenu\/Pizza\/DEEPDEEP%E2%84%A2DishPizza.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Little Caesars\u2019<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grubstreet.com\/2015\/02\/little-caesars-bacon-wrapped-pizza.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bacon-Wrapped Crust Deep! Deep! Dish Pizza.<\/a> Double the depth of a normal Deep! dish, we\u2019re guessing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The <del>afternoon snack<\/del>&nbsp;village banquet is wrapped in  three-and-a-half feet of bacon and caramelized cheese edges and will  cost $12 once it goes on sale on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/02\/18\/bacon-wrapped-pizza-little-caesars_n_6705494.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monday, February 23<\/a>. One slice will cost you 450 calories, 23 grams of fat, 830 milligrams of sodium and 40 milligrams of cholesterol.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Much like Coop did with the Philly Cheesesteaks, you could wring this pie out and fill a crank case. (15m 25s in the vid)<\/p>\n<p>In any case, watch the whole episode, or for that matter <b>any<\/b> episode of <i>Megas XLR<\/i>, it&#8217;s a great show, and is probably even funnier to someone who, unlike me actually was into giant robot anime.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, unless you posses the genetic makeup that gives you a surfeit of the good (ultra-HDL) cholesterol, I would suggest that you eat the pizza and follow it with a handful of statins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bit at 7m 10s is Very Similar to the Pizza There is a bit in the Megas XLR episode &#8220;Space Booty&#8221; where Coop, when confronted with a food synthesizer, orders a &#8220;Philly Cheesesteak, wrapped in bacon, and deep fry it.&#8221;&nbsp; (It should be queued up on the embedded video) That was all that I &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1012,1100,1198,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-funny","category-health","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}