- 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.