Meatball

The picture on the back of that album, the one that was framed there on the wall, is a picture of Billy Joel and his backing band sitting at a table right under where that picture would be, right in front of the kitchen door.

rand loved billy jewel and he loved the escher-esque art of multi-dimensions like the framed picture of the same location where the picture was taken wow rand said wow it kind of makes you forget about asking what's good on the menu we were about to be seated so rand was staring at the picture and then he said but what is good on the menu I was about to say lasagna, but before I could answer, the guy behind Rand said, Meatballs.

Rand turned and said, Thanks.

Then we saw who had answered.

Rand had the meatballs.

On the cab ride back to Brooklyn Heights, we passed a second-run movie house in Lower Manhattan.

The marquee said, Meatballs, Bill Murray.

Now that was 1983.

[beep] Stupid machine's been doing this all day.

Those dumb things never work Meatball looks good today.

Hey, uh, what was that on the intercom about that manager training?

Hey, look at the news.

Aw, thank you, Roddy.

I am starving after my very long day of failing computer tests to try to save our town.

Meatball subs.

[dishes clank] Dibs on the meatballs.

In Southern Italy, particularly in the regions of Naples, Calabria, and Sicily, the local version is called polpette.

These meatballs are typically small, like walnut-sized, and often made from leftover bread, cheese, eggs, and just a little meat because meat was expensive.

Polpette were usually eaten alone or in broth, not in pasta.

Dana, we've got our three major components so far.

They, they haven't officially joined forces in our story just yet.

And every single one had a meatball recipe in it because Dave loved meatballs.

And I was thinking, well, I haven't got a meatball recipe in it.

So I put Meatball and Forno in it.

And I write in the intro to the recipe that it's, you know, it's a homage to Dave because, you know, and I've missed all those conversations.

It's been I mean, the journey for me was slightly different to what everybody else saw because Dave was pulling for quite a good while, you know.

What, like are you surprised-

Meatball sub?

Yeah.

Like, why did that, why was that like a-

it wasn't all avocado ice cream and avoiding nightshade.

So I think that's the one thing that I would say.

Mr. Meatball, full of it as usual, but was he strict?

[laughs]

We're all in.

The children will be going as Hermione Granger from Harry Potter, Charizard from Pokemon, and Spaghetti and Meatballs.

Do you

know I just looked up the top costumes for 2026? Dolly Parton.

Salt & Pepper.

Salt & Pepper, Spaghetti and Meatballs, uh, Steak & Potatoes, things like that.

This year we haven't quite decided.

I was thinking about this-

No, no, these two women were spec- I mean, spectacular.

Um, and it was, it was Meatball, the meatball toss, and they-

Oh, Jesus, tell me

...

It's over kind of by Simpsons.

So the first thing we have on here is Pinhead Skin and Meatballs.

It's torn pasta with spicy pork and beef chunks with marinara.

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