Food for the Eclipse
What should I make? For some reason this amuses me. What would you make? Thinking a moon/sun related cookie. Carrot recipes to see in the dark (too abstract perhaps) I am sort of at a loss.
Friends are putting up funny videos about eclipse prep - an combination of prudence and tin foil hat conspiracies. Mainers have a love/hate relationship with tourism.
Maine (and I am sure elsewhere) is getting an onslaught of Eclipse tourists during mud season. Tens of thousands are heading for parts north of me. I am in a very rural area but it gets more so up north. For those of you who haven’t experienced mud season I am not sure I can convey quite how gelatinous a road can be (add in potholes and frost heaves). My road isn’t too awful so here is a stock photo. I see possible issues.
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https://fabeveryday.com/2024/04/easy-solar-eclipse-snack-ideas-eclipse-cookies-and-eclipse-cupcakes.html
Moon pies
chips and sandwich fixins and liquid ... extra crackers
Black and whites (New York style) served in foil hats. ;)
Henny Penny sheet pan chicken (like chunky pot pie filling)
Slushies (neither frozen nor liquid like neither day nor night—possible also too meta, but I liked the carrot!).
Thin sliced cucumber ”goggles” (we had a 3/4 eclipse decades ago and my father gave me his welding helmet so I could look at the sun).
Everything bagels with green cheese (way too meta to explain).
Skewers with huge, small and medium melon balls = syzygy
Sugar or shortbread cookies dipped in chocolate.
I had a entrepreneurial fantasy of making dozens of original Maine Whoopie Pies (the right texture, no airy cakey stuff), packaging them in cellophane (they would be ice cold, frozen) and selling them for lotsa money to pay for my Total gas.
Most store bought whoopie pies are horrible with the chocolate part too much like box cake mix and the filling all fluffy sugary weird.