Al Dente

No, he is not your neighborhood dentist, this is a term used for cooking pasta. I was watching TV, as I am wont to do when I'm not working or in school. I saw a pizza hut commercial for their new Tuscani Pasta. The newer version of the same commercial starts by saying that New Yorkers know their pasta. This got me thinking, are you an expert on a certain type of cuisine by virtue of your ZIP code. That's an easy answer. No.

Not every Italian citizen can taste a marinara sauce and say, Hmmmm...put in some more oregano, and BAM! Kick it up another notch! I don't think that New Yorkers are any more likely

to taste pasta and say, ooooohhhh...this is good. This tastes like the pizza we had last night from Pizza Hut, only like its been rolled into fusilli and covered in made-from-real-cheese processed cheese and canned spaghetti sauce. Lets order that when we get home.

If this were the case, Utah would be a hotbed for funeral potato and green jello delivery.

Imagine the interior of The Roof restaurant at the Joseph Smith Building and a voice over guy saying,

"We took 50 mormons in Salt Lake City and fed them a steak dinner. Many refused dessert until they remembered what TV told them, there's always room for Jell-O..."

There would be people eating the green plasma and saying things like, mmmm, this is just like grandma used to make, or hey honey, you should get the recipe from the cook, haw haw....

Then the camera would cut to the exterior of the restaurant and show a bunch of Domino's delivery cars showing up and people going Oh! It's fast food....that's why it was so good!