{"id":31177,"date":"2018-03-01T14:02:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T19:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31177"},"modified":"2018-08-27T07:55:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T12:55:15","slug":"i-have-always-thought-in-the-back-of-my-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=31177","title":{"rendered":"I Have Always Thought in the Back of My Mind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday marked George Harrison&#8217;s 75th birthday, and in honor of his birthday I watched <i>The Concert for George<\/i> and, later in the day, Eric Idle&#8217;s <i>The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash<\/i>, a satirical film based on the Beatles&#8217; career that features Harrison in a small role as a journalist.<\/p>\n<p>I also shared the wonderfully goofy video made for Harrison&#8217;s 1970 song, &#8220;What Is Life,&#8221; a few years ago, with dancers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfballet.org\/artists\/dancers\/emma_rubinowitz\">Emma Rubinowitz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfballet.org\/artists\/dancers\/esteban_hernandez\">Esteban Hernandez<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfballet.org\/\">San Francisco Ballet<\/a> doing a performative dance that doesn&#8217;t appear to have much to do with the song but strikes me as the kind of weird and silly thing that Harrison would have loved.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fiH9edd25Bc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Back to The Rutles.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most memorable sequences in <i>The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash<\/i> is the animated sequence, inspired by The Beatles&#8217; <i>Yellow Submarine<\/i>, that goes with the song, &#8220;Cheese and Onions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ahRzFNdPsr8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In all the years that I&#8217;ve watched the film and listened to the song, I&#8217;d never once thought, &#8220;So, is a cheese and onions sandwich a thing?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geniuskitchen.com\/recipe\/british-style-cheese-and-onion-sandwich-for-2-417292\">it is<\/a>!  Basically, it&#8217;s shredded cheddar and diced onions, mixed with mayo, and slapped on bread.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That seems simple,&#8221; I thought.  It wasn&#8217;t what I expected, I thought there would be cheese slices and tomatos and lettuce, but I was curious so I stopped at the grocery store on my way home from work Tuesday and picked up some cheddar.  (I had a bag of frozen diced onions in the freezer.  You never know when you&#8217;ll need them.)<\/p>\n<p>I mixed my ingredients, I stirred them up, stirred and stirred and stirred, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I felt a slight sense of disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pimento_cheese\">pimento cheese<\/a>,&#8221; I said to myself.<\/p>\n<p>Not knowing off-hand what went into pimento cheese I looked it up.  Shredded cheddar cheese, pimentos (a type of chili pepper, in case you didn&#8217;t know), and mayo.<\/p>\n<p>The only difference from &#8220;cheese and onions&#8221;?  Swap out the onions from a cheese and onions sandwich with diced pimentos and you have a pimento cheese sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>And so it turned out that, after years of not knowing what a cheese and onions sandwich was, I basically <i>did<\/i>, albeit under a different name and with one different ingredient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday marked George Harrison&#8217;s 75th birthday, and in honor of his birthday I watched The Concert for George and, later in the day, Eric Idle&#8217;s The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash, a satirical film based on the Beatles&#8217; career that features Harrison in a small role as a journalist. 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