Colbert's 'Thought For Food' Tackles 'Kentucky Tuna', Competitive Eating, Excessive Sandwiches

Stephen Colbert presented a "Thought For Food" segment last night, touching on hot food issues of the day: obesity, Asian carp, last weekend's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest, and the Friendly's Grilled Cheese Burger melt:

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Some 'Thought For Food' quotable Colbert:

• "Americans are always reaching for the stars...in our boxes of Lucky Charms."
• "The Coney Island Hot Dog eating contest is the most patriotic observance of the Fourth of July short of a hot dog shooting contest."
• "Takeru [Kobayashi]: How dare you taint this sacred contest to see who can eat the most tubes filled with cow taint!"
• "I assume [Asian carp] are like regular carp, but better at science and math."
• "When nature gives you carp, make carp-ade. Legal disclaimer: Do Not Make Carp-ade."
• "The Friendly's Grilled Cheese Burger Melt is "like your lunch, and two other people's lunches are having a three-way in your mouth."
• "What if you had a grilled cheese sandwich, where the bread was two other grilled cheese sandwiches? And then, what if those two grilled cheese sandwiches also had grilled cheese sandwiches for bread, and so on, in an endlessly recursive series of dual-state cheese sandwich bread cheese sandwiches, extending into infinity? Prepare yourself nation, for I have invented the Mobius Melt: You'll never want to stop eating it, and in theory, you never could."

Comments

[Knowbetter]

01:35 PM on 07/12/2010

My famous carp recipe:

1 carp
2 tablespoons lemon pepper
2 tsp horseradish
1 jalapeno, chopped
1 large onion, sliced
1 clove garlic
1 cup scotch


Place carp on 12" long cedar plank. Place all ingredents on the carp and bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Discard the carp, drink the scotch, and eat the plank. :-)

[CessnaDriver]

01:42 PM on 07/12/2010

These carp were farm-raised for use in Asian food, and got into the ecosystem due to a flood.

Why can't they be fished and used for animal food? Does anyone know?

[Knowbetter]

02:01 PM on 07/12/2010

I doubt that they are in an area suitable for commercial fishing.

[Badger84]

03:43 AM on 07/11/2010

IMHO, steroids have ruined competitive eating.

[CessnaDriver]

12:42 PM on 07/12/2010

Next thing you know steroids may affect baseball!

[jpackard]

04:06 PM on 07/10/2010

Hilarious: "food fractals" and "mobius sandwich" are now in my vocabulary. But seriously - obesity in America IS our number one problem today. Super-sized McMeals, and all the other crap we eat that leads to obesity, heart attacks, diabetes, and strokes, kills more Americans than terrorists ever have. I'm glad Colbert shed some light on this issue (and nearly made me snort my "bloomin-onion" out my nose at the same time).

[Thomas Murphy]

10:56 PM on 07/09/2010

An annoying, corny, pompous goon with all the talent and wit of a teenaged punk. No wonder Americans rave about this man: he's just like them.

[kareemachan]

10:55 AM on 07/10/2010

Yes, glenn beck is all of that, isn't he? But he's not like ALL of us! ;-)

[astroup]

12:25 PM on 07/12/2010

And yet, you're on the Huffington Post, commenting about us. Admit it, You can't quit us. We're in your pores like a wasteful, spoiled obese fungus and no amount of scrubbing can remove the stink. USA...USA...USA!

[satanlite]

04:58 PM on 07/09/2010

Kentucky Tuna

Absolutely hilarious.

[nameunused]

05:23 AM on 07/09/2010

Must be getting old I'm tired of his shtick.

[alumcreek]

03:56 AM on 07/09/2010

When I was a child cod liver oil was a dreaded nostrum. When McDonald's started offering fish sandwiches the fish was called North Atlantic White Fish, AKA Cod. Had it been called Cod it would not have been accepted by the public.

[satanlite]

05:01 PM on 07/09/2010

All sorts of foods get new names to make them seem more acceptable to the American consumer. I wonder if this happens in other countries?

[alumcreek]

07:13 AM on 07/10/2010

I suspect that new words are coined daily around the this world to obscure unacceptable realities. You may consider "torture vs whatever Bush's evildoing minions called it., "enhanced interrogation techniques?" I did not shoot that man with my pistol, sir. I simply introduced a lead pellet into his brain pan by vigorously ejecting it from this device with the aid of some carbon, sulfur and saltpeter.

[kareemachan]

10:58 AM on 07/10/2010

A while back the fishing industry decided to rename spider crabs, and now a veritable delicacy is - ta-da - king crab! I went to a marine-related (environment, not soldier) convention after that and remember somebody trying to convince us that no, it wasn't a geoduc, it was a - ta-da redux - king clam!! Didn't stick. ;-)

[CessnaDriver]

12:39 PM on 07/12/2010

Australian gooseberry=Kiwi Fruit. Which sounds better?

[sherifffruitfly]

01:57 AM on 07/09/2010

hahahaah The MandleBLT Set.

[patg00]

03:43 PM on 07/09/2010

fanned. nice reference.

[opprobrious]

01:40 AM on 07/09/2010

That sandwich haunts me almost as much as Strawberry flavored hoggie in a can perplexes.

[patriciacaldwell]

12:30 AM on 07/09/2010

Colbert gotta win this year's Emmy. I think he's finally beaten Jon.

[Matt Mackinnon]

04:44 PM on 07/09/2010

Emmy, Please!

[CessnaDriver]

02:20 PM on 07/12/2010

Isn't Conan in that category? If he is, Conan is going to win.

Everyone I know in the TV business hates Jay Leno.

[Hungry Todd Rungy]

11:18 PM on 07/08/2010

Kobayashi is a punk! How dare you attack America's champ!?

See Hungry Todd Rungy's response!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYYbnIdAn8U

[lightist]

10:39 PM on 07/08/2010

Thank the good lordy lord lord, or whatever, for the infinite Colbert Mind Meld Sandwhich.

[EricIndiana]

09:56 PM on 07/08/2010

Is Friendly's TRYING to kill their customers?

http://daisybrain.wordpress.com

[alumcreek]

03:58 AM on 07/09/2010

Chain may be owned by cardiac surgeons creating future patients.

[suec03]

05:07 AM on 07/09/2010

Unlike Subway, which is a brand of Doctor's Associates, Inc. Apparently the Subway doctors actually want their patients to survive (see Jared weight loss ad campaign).

[CessnaDriver]

12:40 PM on 07/12/2010

There was a story a few years back about a couple of cardiac surgeons who had investments in Popeye's franchises.