January 28, 2019 — We have a tradition that we follow every year when the Super Bowl rolls around. We ignore it for as long as possible.
We avoid all mention of the big game until as close to kickoff as we can manage. Otherwise, you just drown in the endless drek of mindless and irrelevant reports about teams we already know way too much about.
Still, people tell us things. We don’t encourage it, but there you are. They tell us the big game will pit the Patriots of New England against the Rams of Los Angeles (by way of Cleveland, Los Angeles (the first time), Anaheim and St. Louis).
Well, that sounds like a corker. Feel free to invite us to your Super Bowl party. We’ll bring Kenny Rogers Roasters chicken. The man, as Newman attested, makes a pretty strong bird.
What we won’t be bringing is our home-grown shrimp. Didn’t know you could grow shrimp at home? Well, according to researchers at the University of New Hampshire, you can.
“Researcher Michael Chambers says the shrimp can be cultivated in any larger container or tank, or even in a backyard kiddie pool, at a relatively low cost,” according to a story in the Boston Globe. “Chambers said people could make $40,000 or more a year if they invested in a large-scale operation. The homegrown shrimp could replace frozen or processed shrimp found in supermarkets during the winter.”