COLGR49: Spiked Kirsch reflections

[Kato du Bois]

>From: Peter Petto:
>
>
>The kirsch in the fondue reminds me of the passage in GR (p244):
>
>>  Turns out that some merrymaker has earlier put a hundred grams of
>>  hashish in the Hollandaise. Word of this has got around. There has
>>  been a big run on broccoli.
>
>...minus the punchline.
>
>Maybe Pynchon has a penchant for dosed foods, or surprise foods (Pudding's
>recipes or Mrs. Quoads candies, also from GR.)

Well, we know Pynchon appreciates Donald Barthelme, whose short tales are 
sometimes ludicrous recipes, and often spiked (see "The Great Breakfast" ... 
haha). And P's introduction to "The Teaching of Don B." admires that authors 
instincts to,

	"... stash the merchandise, bamboozle the inspectors, and smuggle 			their 
nocturnal contraband right on past the checkpoints of 				daylight 
"reality".

Communicating in code, gastronomically, so to speak? ... or perhaps just the 
old American tradition of spiking the punch at the prom, get the squares to 
loosen up a little bit (I'm sure people have been spiking their stuff since 
Babylonia, actually).

But J. Kerry Grant thinks it's just trade: get the potential customers a 
little tipsy, they may buy more Tupperware. But for all y'all that have been 
to anything like a Tupperware party, you know a little booze is the only 
thing to cut through the tedium.

A run on the broccoli, indeed.

K d B




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