The Church Basement Roadshow

The Church Basement Roadshow

The influence and effects of middle east cusine on the Revivalists of the church basement roadshow

posted by Mark Scandrette | 3:51pm Tuesday June 24, 2008

In the memorandum that we sent out to hosts for the Church Basement Roadshow, we delicately requested a healthy meal before the show (i.e. No pizza). The organizers of our first three shows interpreted “healthy” in exactly the same fashion and presented us with a meal of roasted chicken, green salad, pitas and hummus. We were proudly presented with the leftovers from each of these meals including several large tubs of homemade hummus made by a caring Lebanese mother or Greek aunt. Serendipitously I had gone out the day before the tour and bought two large tubs of hummus myself so that we would have “healthy” snacks as we traveled. Consequently, we now have hummus coming out of our ears and the RV refrigerator is full of this delicious middle eastern condiment. However, the other revivalists and our tech engineer have discovered that I am terribly allergic to hummus. The air quality on the tour bus has been severely affected, and at one recent show an eruption of flatulence disrupted the finale with smirks and uncontrollable fits of laughter among the revivalists. I still maintain that Big Brother Duke was to blame.



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Mike Oles

posted June 27, 2008 at 4:49 pm


Not sure if you guys have seen YOU DON’T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN yet, but hummus is what makes the world, er middle east, go around.
Hummus in the coffee, hummus for toothpaste, hummus for putting out an arsonist’s fire. Those mashed up chickpeas are great for everything!
Can’t wait to see the show in Indy!



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