Baked in a Buttery Flakey Crust

March 16, 2021 11:41 PM

DAN! FLAKY! GAWD. (SLYT)
posted by metabaroque (10 comments total)

Those two have been married a long old time. They neither of them can do this simple task, and it's embarrassing, and the pie is getting cold, but they can still live with themselves and each other when they eventually get home. My aged in-laws had a pact that they wouldn't grass each other up to their grown up descendants when one or other of them had a trip-and-fall or kettle-scald.
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:28 AM on March 17, 2021 [3 favorites]

This is one of my favorite youtube videos. I remember laughing so hard and watching it like 20 times when it came out. It shocked me that it didn't go viral at the time. It still makes me laugh even now!
posted by leafallsonelines at 2:39 AM on March 17, 2021

There's a second secret layer of humor in this provided by the automatically generated captions.

"Flaky leaking"
posted by transitional procedures at 2:59 AM on March 17, 2021 [1 favorite]

That's some tough adjectiving right there. Baked ties its vowel sound to flaky and buttery to crust, so there is, I think, an urge for the more melodious baked in a flaky buttery crust, but we do tend to place the taste oriented adjective first, like, say salty charred meat or sugary powered topping, so there is some conflicting desire in arrangement of the phrase that's tripping Dan up, so he reaches for the alliteration of crispy and crust. The poor guy's just a poet at heart and can't help it.
posted by gusottertrout at 3:16 AM on March 17, 2021 [9 favorites]

Because it's full of things that are only correct because they're grammatical, but they're tough on the ear. You see, this is a very wearying one. It's unpleasant to read. Unrewarding.
posted by darksasami at 4:26 AM on March 17, 2021 [2 favorites]

“Baked in a crusty pasty crisp.”
posted by oulipian at 5:11 AM on March 17, 2021 [1 favorite]

If you ever find yourself up in my neck of the woods, Dysart's is worth a stop, both for the truck stop atmosphere, and the home-style food !
posted by lobstah at 7:47 AM on March 17, 2021

Dysart's held a Trump campaign rally and hosted Mike Pence.

I used to look forward to eating a slice of Dysart's raspberry pie every time I was near Bangor, but given their politics it will be a very long time before I ever go back there again.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 9:08 AM on March 17, 2021

I was starting to feel really bad for the guy, especially as she started snapping at him (even though she was ruining every take too by silently mouthing his line while he struggled through it).

The relief in his face when she screwed up the line too salvaged it for me (and probably for him too)
posted by ook at 9:15 AM on March 17, 2021

I don't know how you caught that video of my parents, but thank you.
posted by tristeza at 4:34 PM on March 17, 2021