Since there's really no place else to post this kind of thing here, I figured I'd start a thread about any TEFLON question that comes to mind.

I often drive by the local SpudNuts shop, which is an institution here in Charlottesville. In fact I lived just down the street from there for a while Shapes was recorded (within the cartoon olfactory wafting range, and I used to know it was time to stop recording when I smelled them).

Now I know Don is a connaisseur of the non-potato variety, and I don't know if he's ever tried one of these, but it occurs to me there must be other spudnut shops around the country, as it was once something of a fad. Do any of you have one in your town and have you ever tried one?

Greg,

It has now been 20 years since I lived in central VA, so I have to ask....

What is a SpudNut????

Later, Lee

Funny you ask, my wife and I recently saw a Food Network show on donuts, and one of the shops sold spudnuts (the flour coming from potatoes).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spudnut_Shop

Here is a directory:

http://spudnutshop.com/

So there are only two places on the east coast to get spudnuts, Charlottesville and Panama City, Florida. A lot more on the west coast.

Potato flour donuts.

C'ville, and the Redneck Riviera.

Don't get much better than that!


Thanks Rob.

Lee

They have (had?) them in southern california
(unless they've all gone out of business).
but they're not pervasive. So Don may have sampled them..
It's been a long time since I tried one, but they were good
to the best of my recollection...

-mike.

It's been a while since I had one, but I remember them as delicious. Though I also remember that if I ate more than one or two they felt a little leaden in my stomach. worth the risk? only one way to find out...

Great storms this year
almost every evening
no electrified noise from me for all to hear
just softly vibrating strings and thunder
and the black dog, seeking a sheltered spot,
not shaking, quite so much, anymore
still, breathing hard.

LOS ANGELES—A report published Monday in The New England Journal of Medicine warns that the nation's obesity epidemic has reached a new level of crisis, with many overweight Americans' increased girth rendering them physically unable to end their own, fat lives.

...For example, hanging oneself is most often out of the question. The report notes that a disturbing percentage of the obese are too large to ascend a footstool, too inflexible to kick it out from under them, and even if they could, are too heavy to remain atop it long enough to put their giant, flabby necks through a noose before the footstool shatters into splinters under their massive girth. Plus, as Reese writes, "even if all other variables were eliminated, the weight of these enormous individuals would probably break any indoor light fixtures or attic roof supports to which they might tie a rope."

Full article at http://www.theonion.com/content/news/study_many_americans_too_fat_to

Where's that 'popcorn' smiley?

I remember him saying that he was a "Frisbetarian"

they believe when you die your soul goes up on the roof and you can't get it down...

Lots of great roles, but I think the taxi driver in Car Wash was probably the most sublime.