# Minor AEG note *The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 22 Mar 2010* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Allen Short *22 Mar 2010, 18:01* In case anyone missed the significance of Gideon ordering the "Renaissance French Toast" at the beginning of chapter 6, it's from a joke usually attributed to Steven Wright: ??"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance." Other than a clever allusion to restaurants like International House of Pancakes that serve breakfast all day, could this be another hint at the time-travel themes in the story? (Also, what's with the constant food references? This got brought up early on but I don't recall any significant exploration of it...) --- ### Fernando Gouvea *22 Mar 2010, 18:07 · in reply to Allen Short* I met Gene for dinner when he was writing the book, and he told me that he was having lots of fun inserting references to as many kinds of salad dressing as he could. This came up because he asked the waiter whether they had Green Goddess salad dressing. I told him one of the local restaurants did have it, and he mentioned the scene in the book. It didn't sound as if there was any special significance to it. Fernando > On 3/22/2010 2:01 PM, Allen Short wrote: > In case anyone missed the significance of Gideon ordering the > "Renaissance French Toast" at the beginning of chapter 6, it's from a > joke usually attributed to Steven Wright: > > "I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I > ordered French Toast during the Renaissance." > > Other than a clever allusion to restaurants like International House > of Pancakes that serve breakfast all day, could this be another hint > at the time-travel themes in the story? (Also, what's with the > constant food references? This got brought up early on but I don't > recall any significant exploration of it...) > _______________________________________________ --- ### David Stockhoff *22 Mar 2010, 22:51 · follows Fernando Gouvea* Well, it figures Wolfe would notice Green Goddess salad dressing. I suppose there isn't a salad dressing with "wolf" in its name, so one works with what's at hand. ;) And the time-travel toast joke seems in line with the use of salad dressing names. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:01:24 -0700 > From: Allen Short > To: urth at lists.urth.net > Subject: (urth) Minor AEG note > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > In case anyone missed the significance of Gideon ordering the > "Renaissance French Toast" at the beginning of chapter 6, it's from a > joke usually attributed to Steven Wright: > > ??"I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I > ordered French Toast during the Renaissance." > > Other than a clever allusion to restaurants like International House > of Pancakes that serve breakfast all day, could this be another hint > at the time-travel themes in the story? (Also, what's with the > constant food references? This got brought up early on but I don't > recall any significant exploration of it...) > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:07:07 -0400 > From: Fernando Gouvea > To: urth at lists.urth.net > Subject: Re: (urth) Minor AEG note > Message-ID: <4BA7B1CB.4010107 at colby.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed > > I met Gene for dinner when he was writing the book, and he told me that > he was having lots of fun inserting references to as many kinds of salad > dressing as he could. This came up because he asked the waiter whether > they had Green Goddess salad dressing. I told him one of the local > restaurants did have it, and he mentioned the scene in the book. It > didn't sound as if there was any special significance to it. > > Fernando > > On 3/22/2010 2:01 PM, Allen Short wrote: >> In case anyone missed the significance of Gideon ordering the >> "Renaissance French Toast" at the beginning of chapter 6, it's from a >> joke usually attributed to Steven Wright: >> >> "I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time.' So I >> ordered French Toast during the Renaissance." >> >> Other than a clever allusion to restaurants like International House >> of Pancakes that serve breakfast all day, could this be another hint >> at the time-travel themes in the story? (Also, what's with the >> constant food references? This got brought up early on but I don't >> recall any significant exploration of it...) >> _______________________________________________ ---