{"id":1230,"date":"2009-06-07T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/wheres-the-beef\/"},"modified":"2010-10-10T02:36:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T06:36:41","slug":"wheres-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/wheres-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s the Beef?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with Heinz Ketchup commercials that used <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/classic-carly-simon\/\">Carly Simon<\/a>&#8216;s song <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fnMwvrXAlS0\">Anticipation<\/a> to make the point that the ketchup was so thick and rich that it came out of the bottle very slowly.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gq_5QZDpY1Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gq_5QZDpY1Y&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Times have changed. Last night, while out at dinner with my gorgeous friends Jen, Kevin, Alyssa, and Amanda, I became distracted for a split second while holding a miniature Heinz bottle over my burger. This was the result.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SiyYQE_U73I\/AAAAAAAAH14\/giAe1ZFLeRk\/s1600-h\/IMG_0534.JPG\" onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344814259766620018\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SiyYQE_U73I\/AAAAAAAAH14\/giAe1ZFLeRk\/s320\/IMG_0534.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Anticipation? Not really. More like premature ejaculation! My photo reminds me of a different commercial &#8212; for the fast food chain appropriately named Wendy&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aISkVvi5iI8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aISkVvi5iI8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the thing that distracted me from my ketchup pouring was the fact that Amanda was commenting unfavorably on the bun to beef ratio of our burgers. She made up for it by sharing her fries. I certainly had enough ketchup for them! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up with Heinz Ketchup commercials that used Carly Simon&#8216;s song Anticipation to make the point that the ketchup was so thick and rich that it came out of the bottle very slowly. Times have changed. Last night, while out at dinner with my gorgeous friends Jen, Kevin, Alyssa, and Amanda, I became distracted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/wheres-beef\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,83,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-food","category-gorgeous-friends","category-tv","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1230"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}