The line comes from a comedian named Jake Johansen who Glenn and I kind of liked when we were first married. (1990) I don't know if he's still around or if he's still clean (he was back then) so I'm not necessarily plugging him. But he did this bit on hot dogs where he was saying that everybody says hot dogs are bad and you don't know what goes into them so he was reading the ingredient list, hoping to find something about the little white ball maybe in parentheses, but he had to stop when he came to the beef lips. Then he said "Why are the beef lips in our food?" He then goes on that maybe we should give the beef lips to the dog, and you could probably get a dog to beg for a lip etc.
Not that that is hilarious in and of itself but it has become an inside joke of sorts between Glenn and I whenever one of us asks a "why" question, the other will often respond with "Why are the beef lips in our food?"
I actually thought it was a really good title for my blog because when I was first started the blog I didn't know if it was going to be about nutrition (healthy recipes and such) or more of a journal so this title really worked because it has a food element, it's personal to Glenn and I, and it's also kind of funny. So thus the beef lips blog was born.
My only concern has been the web address because I learned that if you don't put the hyphen in you will go to a blog that is not good. I thought about changing that part but first of all I don't know how to do it and second I think I'm somewhat established now at beef-lips so please remember the hyphen!
Here's Jake Johansen
and here's a hot dog
Enjoy!
5 comments:
Whew -- I'm glad you cleared that up for me -- I almost got Jake and the dog confused!
I was wondering. Now I know.
Thanks for the explanation! Now I feel I know you a little better...and I can see we are going to be very good friends!
If you like comedians and you haven't heard of Brian Regan...watch him! He's great!!
I am still waiting for the birthday blog. You're slacking.
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