Okay, here’s what really upsets me about the prairie lady putting beets in the brownies: at some point, when someone is sharing a recipe with you that calls for putting something inappropriate into something that has been literally perfect (brownies in this case) for tens of thousands of years (well, okay, at least a hundred years), one must ask, “who the hell came up with this?  How did this come to be?”  And there is simply no way of getting around the fact that at some point, so jackass looked at a whole big thing of freshly baked brownies and said, “These could be better.”  Which is somewhere between treason and blasphemy.  But who the hell…okay, so you idiotically decide that brownies can be improved upon, what ingredient would you attempt to add?  Chocolate chips?  Makes sense.  Gummy bears?  Maybe.  Pour maple syrup and whiskey on the brownies?  Bold, but plausible.  Questionable, but reasonable.  Anyone who would think “beets!” is depraved and possibly psychotic.

N.P.: “The Crunch” – The Rah Band