From The Naked City (dir. Jules Dassin, 1948). It’s a hot day. Mrs. Halloran (Anne Sargent) greets her husband Jimmy (Don Taylor):
“Got you a nice cool dinner — jellied tongue.”As Daniel Tiger reminds us, we gotta try new foods ’cause they might taste good. So here’s a recipe for jellied tongue. Oh, swell.
“Oh, swell — I’m starved.”
The Criterion Channel has The Naked City and a new documentary, Uncovering “The Naked City” (dir. Bruce Goldstein, 2020), a detailed look at the movie’s locations and production.
You taste it, it tastes you. (I had a tongue sandwich in the Carnegie Deli once)
ReplyDeleteHa! My only previous acquaintance with tongue: the Beverly Cleary novel (which?) in which Ramona and Beezus object to tongue and are made to cook dinner.
ReplyDeleteI used to buy lambs' tongues when we lived in CA.... delicious cooked in the crockpot!
ReplyDeleteI have to point out: no one has yet stood up for jellied tongue.
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