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Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

We'd give you a copy of the IMDb home game, but there isn't one. For those who weren't around then, game shows such as Concentration or Password would usually send the losers off with a copy of the home game and a year's supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat.

Rice-A-Roni paid money for that daily mention, you'd hear a rapid reference to it and the other prizes when they told you that "promotional considerations were provided by..."

Anyway, it's been a long time since we've mentioned the dish, and I would not want it to go unmentioned as the end is near. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of the gag, not only here but on other sites.

There would be criticism that the cabal (or core group) would segue unwanted threads into recipe threads so here is the chance for any and all to submit a recipe of their own before things close up.

I can't claim to be a chef or a cook. I open a box or a can and that's it. I used to make a pizza on weekends, that's my area of expertise and any person who has waited for a slice in a pizzeria knows how to do that. Oh - don't forget to turn the oven on, that makes a big difference. As Ralph Kramden said, turn the heat up to twice the recommended amount and it will cook in half the time.

Come near my pizza with a piece of pineapple and you'll be barred from the apartment. I'm not big on toppings, maybe sausage or some chopped meat, but I like pizza as pizza - I'm not trying to turn it into a casserole or stew on a slab.



It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

After my appearance as a contestant on Jeopardy! was aired (broadcast date 4-15-88), I was offered a long list of minor consolation prizes in addition to my major awards. I don`t recall whether Rice-A-Roni was among them, but I do remember Lee`s Press-On Nails. I declined the minor prizes because I didn`t want them enough to pay taxes on them.

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Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

It would always be phrased as "a year's supply of Rice-A-Roni" and even as a kid I figured that was relative. I'm sure a year's supply would be different in the home of Don Knotts as opposed to Raymond Burr.

I was reading earlier today of someone who won prizes on a game show and how they were hit for taxes for a TV at the suggested retail price rather than what the set cost in Best Buy. Where I am, when it comes to electronics, you don't settle for less than 33% off.



It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

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Other game show product phrases:

Pontiac wide-tracking

Impaaala!

Broyhill furniture

The Spiegel catalog

Audiences were cued to ooh-and-aah at these phrases.

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"Spiegel, Chicago 9, Illinois"



It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

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Sarah Coventry jewelry
Furs from Dicker and Dicker of Beverly Hills

I told you a million times not to talk to me when I'm doing my lashes!

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May as well post the recipes here, because I doubt that too many moderators on other forums will tolerate that nonsense.

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Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

Seeing Rice-a-Roni on grocery store shelves always makes me grin, for some inane reason. I suspect the game show connection has something to do with it.

50 Is The New Cutoff Age.

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I always have that association with game show and the whole Rice-A-Roni jingle from when I was 10...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzOR_Fal_SY



It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

Well, I AM something of a cook, and I somewhat regret that I've never engaged with cooking websites or forums. Well, you can't spend all your time online, and I like to create my own stuff anyway; it's when I step out of my comfort zone that I go looking for recipes or ideas. Most recent meal I made (apart from things like frozen pizza and veggie burgers, staples here):

Blackened Tuna

tuna steaks (ideally 1" thick or so)

toasted coconut
coconut sugar
ground coriander
orange peel
onion powder
garlic powder
black pepper
cayenne pepper (just a smidgeon)

Apart from the cayenne, I'd use anywhere from 1 teaspoon to 1 tablespoon for each of these - more on the onion & garlic powder, less on the black pepper and sugar - but I don't measure, I go on instinct

dip tuna in a mixture of coconut oil and butter, roll in spices, and blacken on high heat in a cast-iron skillet, about 2 1/2 minutes per side until rare/medium rare

Spaghetti Squash

fresh garlic (lots)
parsley
chives
black pepper
salt
parmesan cheese
butter & olive oil

Bake squash at 375 for 70 minutes. Let cool for 10 minutes. Heat oil & spices; cut squash in half, remove seeds, then pull out strands of squash with fork. Mixed with spices until well coated, then top with parmesan cheese.

Serve with green salad - I usually have romaine, spinach or red leaf, mixed with olives, avocado, tomato, almonds or walnuts, and dried fruit (raisins, cranberries or dates)


(I've never used Rice-a-Roni to my knowledge, it's for people who can't or don't cook)

Here's to the fools who dream

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

The tuna looks good. And remember, you can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish.

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

SPEEDWAGON!!!!

Here's to the fools who dream

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

Perhaps Amazon will soon offer a home version of the Classic Film board.

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars and do not mention under 40.

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Imagine.

Imagine. The yahoos will actually have to stay on topic on other forums.

Do they allow call-out threads and parody threads on these other forums?

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Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

The UK equivalent is a Crackerjack pencil from Leslie Crowther for kids and a cuddly toy from Bruce Forsyth for the grownups.


"Security - release the badgers."

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

Does the adult toy come with batteries?

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

No, but Brucie does. Maybe that's what he means by a Brucie bonus...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60lbIgq-9CU&t=8m50s

And he likes to keep tabs on the losers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60lbIgq-9CU&t=8m28s


"Security - release the badgers."

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Does the adult toy come with batteries?


No, it doesn't come with them, but it requires twelve D batteries.
(Batteries sold separately. "In New Jersey, the number is BIgelow-2...")

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Not good enough for the Blue Peter Badge Trevor?

And from what I hear the odds were good that most kids got more than a pencil in their crackerjack from anyone working at the Beeb...

Tell mama, Tell mama all....

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My father was on To Tell The Truth in 1967 or so. He was the real figure and all four panelist picked him. He got a hundred bucks cash. I know Peggy Cass was one of the panelists. Not sure of the others.

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I remember that one - I picked him too!

Not really but my mother might have. She would guess before any of them even said a word, she judged by what would later be called body language.

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

The phrase "lovely parting gifts" has always stuck with me.

mf

“I know that, in spite of the poets, youth is not the happiest season"

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

Letterman used to give his guests sponges: http://tinyurl.com/jnkq35n

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The phrase "lovely parting gifts" has always stuck with me.

Yeah, me too.

So, where do WE go to pick up our "lovely parting gifts?"

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Ah, Clore, this makes me grin. The grin is a nice addendum to the appreciation that I have had for your thoughtful posts, over the years.

I am from San Francisco ... born and raised.

- I can, honestly, say that I have never purchased, or prepared, Rice-A-Roni. If, indeed, some of it worked its way into a dish in someone's home, or in a restaurant, I'm not aware of it. In full disclosure, I do confess to using an "Uncle Ben's, herbed rice" mix in a chicken/rice dish that I have made.

- For years, I thought that the "San Francisco Treat," jingle was an adapted regional commercial campaign. For example, maybe the commercials in the southern states might have touted "A Truly Southern Treat." Then, when visiting Boston, I was mortified to see the "SF Treat," version ... complete with cable car. OMG! Say it isn't so!

- Rice-A-Roni, is a distant cousin of the military M.R.E.s, ("meals ready to eat"), that we heard about during the Desert Storm war. It's an adaptation of prepared meals from (I believe) the Korean war. The "Roni," is short for "macaRONI," as the starch is a mixture of rice and pasta. Should it come up in a trivia match, or a boring cocktail party ... Rice-A-Roni was developed and marketed by the man who owned the Napa Valley Wine Train. I can't recall his name.

- Years ago, on "The Joker Is Wild," a Grand Prize was a 3-day trip to San Francisco. In his frenzy, the announcer called the city "the home of the stunningly beautiful Golden Gate Bridge." The graphic that accompanied that sentence showed the "stunningly beautiful SF/Oakland Bay Bridge." That ran for months, never corrected ... and got a lot of laughs.

Thanks, again, for your all of your thoughts, and observances.

















Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

Thank you, so very nice of you to say and I wish that we got to exchange thoughts more often. I think I've posted more in the last few days than I did in the last six months.

I first heard of Rice A Roni via the game shows, I didn't see the commercials for a couple of years. I didn't eat any until I was an adult as we were impoverished when I was a kid and a box of the stuff which was good for only one meal was more than a box of Carolina Rice which was good for several meals. The store brand (Bohack) was even less than that.

We used to make fun of it - "What's this stuff - vermin jelly? Who want to eat bug paste?"

I just checked, there's a box in the cabinet - way in the back of the cabinet. My brother picked it up when he was here, we just never got around to making it and it's been there since December 14, 2012.



It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

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If there are IMDb boards, in the next life, you must join us on the "Food and Drink" board. Great people, fun banter ... and, we'll have you cooking in no time.




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As a 'lovely parting gift,' Truth or Consequences would give female contestants a bottle of Jungle Gardenia by Tuvache, the Adult Fragrance for Women.




Reconfiguring the Sixties

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As opposed to the childish fragrance for women?

Do infants have as much fun in infancy as adults do in adultery?

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

HA!!

As a child in the early 1960s, the word 'fragrance' used by Bob Barker on Truth or Consequences to describe Jungle Gardenia was unfamiliar to me, so I asked my mom what it meant.

My mom told me 'fragrance' was the content of the clouds wafting off Pepe LePew's tail in the Looney Tunes cartoons...or what my dad left in the bathroom before he went to work in the morning. To this day, I think of Jungle Gardenia by Tuvache when I see or hear the term Eau De Toilette.





Reconfiguring the Sixties

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Just to hear the words "toilet water" used to send sis and I into giggle fits.

I remember the slogan "And remember, Serutan is natures spelled backwards." I'd respond "And Sominex is xenimos spelled backwards."

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

HA!!


Reconfiguring the Sixties

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

Rice Salad:

One package chicken rice-a-roni - cook.
1 cup of white rice - cook it acording to directions.
1/2 cup of sour cream
1/2 cup mayo
2 can drained chopped water chestnuts
1 peeled and diced cucumber
some sliced radishes
1 small bunch chopped green onions (scallions)
1 dash or worchestershire sauce

It's a cold salad, and actually tasty and very refreshing!


Life can be arbitrary and comes without a warranty.

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

My son is a chef, in Hanoi.

What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

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Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco treat.

I loved Rice-A-Roni -- or anything starchy.

Looked at a box in the grocery store recently, and it's loaded with sodium.

Not good for an aging heart -- with high blood pressure!

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I have an aging heart but my blood pressure is relatively low. At my age, I don't worry about that stuff anymore - I figure that I'll just lose those last years and how great are they going to be anyway? I don't intend on going out as I came in - bald, toothless and crapping in a diaper.



It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

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I have an aging heart but my blood pressure is relatively low. At my age, I don't worry about that stuff anymore - I figure that I'll just lose those last years and how great are they going to be anyway? I don't intend on going out as I came in - bald, toothless and crapping in a diaper.

My father used to say we should be born old and get younger each year.

I said, "Either way, you wind up shítting in your pants !" 💩

Re: Thank you for playing, sorry you lost, have some Rice-A-Roni

You were wise in your youth - oh, wait - maybe you were old. Now I'm confused.



It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

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Now I'm confused.

When I was a kid, they called it "hardening of the arteries."

Today, they call it Alzheimer's Disease --
Or, as some people say, "Old Timer's Disease."

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I don't want to go like that. I've seen it once in my family already and now it's happening to another. I don't intend to go simple or end up with tubes and wires attached to me. But I'll say thanks to my creator for the game of life and at that point, a lifetime's supply of Rice A Roni will be just one serving.

It ain't easy being green, or anything else, other than to be me

Re: Think young.

Think young, Gubbio. Think positive.



You're not old!

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