#146: BLASTER BLUES - THE VOLTRONIC GALAXER
Join your Garbage Gang Guys of the APDC as they cover S2, Ep26, “Blaster Blues,” from the 1985 classic animated series, The Transformers!
We can’t read all this shit!! Garbage Pail Kids!! Ryan: Normal Sized Man!!! Blaster and Shockwave: Bookends!! Auto-bootlegging!! Voltronic Galaxer!! Decepticons: On the Moon!!! Megatron: Bitch-slaps Blaster!! Optimus Prime: Air-Traffic Controller!!! Who do you think you are…Marconi?!? Bizarro: I love you!!! Iconic Moment! Script Deviations!! Rate the Scheme!! Where did Caleb go!?! One two three, buckle my shoe!!!
THE SAVANNAH PLANTER’S PUNCH – pg. 111
This is almost a tiki drink. I tested this one and altered it a little by adding simple syrup and grenadine, because it was a little unbalanced. Little known fact, sweetness often accentuates other flavors. I have been getting super into the science of cocktail creation, and it has now occurred to me that some of the drinks in this book were recorded right spang in the middle of Prohibition, which was basically the worst time for cocktails; the golden age was the late 1800s, actually.
· 2 oz. (60 ml) cognac
· 1 oz. (30) rum
· 1 oz. (30) pineapple juice
· 1 oz. (30) lime juice
· ½ oz. (15) simple syrup
· Shake with ice
· Double strain into a large glass tightly packed with shaved/crushed ice
o I have a Lewis bag, which is a canvas bag originally designed to carry coins, but was repurposed in the 1800s for bartenders to easily make cracked ice
§ You put ice in it and smash it with a wooden hammer
· Float with REAL grenadine and garnish with pineapple, cherry, and orange slice
o I used a paper umbrella here, too, because I’m fun
· I love some of the super-inside references this book makes
o When urging the use of good rum it says:
§ “This recently-born swarm of new, strange rums can no more replace even a fair Jamaican, Barbados, or Haitian rum, than Mr. Kreisler can play the E Flat Nocturne on a turnip crate.”
§ That is an impenetrable sentence
· That sentence is so rich and waspy its mom bribed its way into college
The VOLTRONIC GALAXER!!! Ewww…this one has human all over it.
Why does the observatory look like R2-D2 wearing a party hat?
Also, the observatory front doors look like Optimus Prime’s truck mode.
