FOMOing at the Mouth

YouTube is a fantastic site.  Not only is it more addictive than bacon salt , but you are secure in the knowledge that there is some other lunatic who is just as obsessed with terrible movies like   From Justin To Kelly as you are.   I remember once showing my then 62-year-old technologically illiterate mother how to find a Susan Boyle video on the venerable ‘Tube.  I did so with almost guilty trepidation, as I knew the discovery that having basically every video clip you can think of on tap will change your life, and not necessarily in a good way. The other wonderful thing about YouTube is that it has taught us a fundamental truth about modern movies and mankind in general:  Nobody cares about whole movies anymore.  Usually, people these days are fascinated with a movie because of one or two key scenes that crop up in and amongst a whole bunch of filler.  Effectively, in this quick-fix age of breakfast sandwiches and fast-acting pai...

Now that the Christian holiday of Easter is past, it caused me to reflect on what this time of year is all about:  Eating.  In line with this, I present to you a video, a video which made me unimaginably happy as it combined two of my favourite things:  Food, and introducing people to new food.  It has been doing the rounds on The Interwebs for a little while, but if you haven’t seen it, please check it out below: A few notes on this clip before I continue: I did not know Rock Shandy was a South African thing.  I would have chosen something far more representative, like witblits  or a Springbokkie .  (Though, I s’pose we don’t want BuzzFeed contributors slamming down two witblitses then getting into a fistfight about rugby, now do we?) Why they gotta disrespect Anchovette like that?  This was a breakfast staple in my house for years, and if it tastes like penguin food, then it’s the penguin food that only rich penguins who drive au...