Beer, cake and pain relief = happy people
Kelly P. and I have to do a presentation in our Food & Drug Law class tomorrow night. Each week, teams are assigned a food or drug product to present on, and each team must also bring in some food or beverage item relating to the assigned topic to share with the class. I was hoping for one of the more controversial topics, such as Viagra, breast implants, birth control pills, or some weird food additive because the jokes pretty much write themselves, but no such luck. Kelly and I have the oh-so-fascinating ibuprofen. The only jokes I can come up with have to do with cramps and hangovers, neither of which is all that funny.
Anyhow, each team's choice of food/beverage is always of great interest going into class. So far this semester, we have sampled nasty imitation crab meat, egg salad, cheese, crackers, chips, dips, shrimp, cookies, donuts, oatmeal, candy, sasafrass tea, wine and beer. And I think someone brought olives in once as well. Pretty impressive, huh? What's even more impressive is that every single week, some team has brought in beer. Every Thursday night, someone hauls in a couple cases of cold beer and makes some remote, yet creative, link to their topic. For example, last week the team that was assigned sunscreen brought in Corona. Why? Because obviously the use of sunscreen goes hand-in-hand with drinking Corona. And a few weeks ago, the team assigned over-the-counter home pregnancy tests brought in beer. Why? Because obviously the need for a home pregancy test goes hand-in-hand with drinking beer. Well, for some people, anyway. You get the picture.
So here we have ibuprofen. But of course we don't want to break class tradition or disappoint the beer drinkers in the back row, so we are bringing in beer. People don't seem to care so much about the food anymore. They just are looking for the cool kids with the beer. And of course there is an obvious association between beer and ibuprofen in that it is a potential remedy, although not as good as my Excedrine/Gatorade cocktail, for the almighty hangover.
Just to be on the safe side, we're bringing in cake, too. However, our cake-ibuprofen connection is even more remote and obscure than the beer-ibuprofen connection. But who's going to complain? Beer, cake and pain relief is a pretty good deal for a Thursday night law class.
Anyhow, each team's choice of food/beverage is always of great interest going into class. So far this semester, we have sampled nasty imitation crab meat, egg salad, cheese, crackers, chips, dips, shrimp, cookies, donuts, oatmeal, candy, sasafrass tea, wine and beer. And I think someone brought olives in once as well. Pretty impressive, huh? What's even more impressive is that every single week, some team has brought in beer. Every Thursday night, someone hauls in a couple cases of cold beer and makes some remote, yet creative, link to their topic. For example, last week the team that was assigned sunscreen brought in Corona. Why? Because obviously the use of sunscreen goes hand-in-hand with drinking Corona. And a few weeks ago, the team assigned over-the-counter home pregnancy tests brought in beer. Why? Because obviously the need for a home pregancy test goes hand-in-hand with drinking beer. Well, for some people, anyway. You get the picture.
So here we have ibuprofen. But of course we don't want to break class tradition or disappoint the beer drinkers in the back row, so we are bringing in beer. People don't seem to care so much about the food anymore. They just are looking for the cool kids with the beer. And of course there is an obvious association between beer and ibuprofen in that it is a potential remedy, although not as good as my Excedrine/Gatorade cocktail, for the almighty hangover.
Just to be on the safe side, we're bringing in cake, too. However, our cake-ibuprofen connection is even more remote and obscure than the beer-ibuprofen connection. But who's going to complain? Beer, cake and pain relief is a pretty good deal for a Thursday night law class.
posted by Amanda at 6:17 PM
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