Crunchy Frog

  • In a composition course, I might have students look up the actual FDA allowances for items in food–just not before lunchtime.
  • Naming the nasty something appealing-sounding is a common trope in Python sketches.  Again, we are back to the “can’t get proper service” motif here.
  • This sketch could also be useful in getting us to avoid meaningless adjectives.  Well, I suppose some are meaningful. . . crunchy, for instance, is truth in advertising.  Naming matters, so in our “challenged,” lie-filled culture, how we respond to claims and names has implications worth many teaching moments!
  • “It’s a fair cop” appears again here.  This idea of people accepting the ridiculous because it’s argued a certain way–probably not a valid way, but catchily–is worth thinking about.