Food, Glorious Food

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OMAHA -- Hopefully, memories aren’t long around here in Nebraska.

Otherwise wearing a press credential with the words Los Angeles Times on it might qualify as a dangerous assignment. It hasn’t even been a year since Times’ sports columnist T.J. Simers dissed the local population (now there’s an upset) and, in particular, described some Nebraska women as ‘big-butted.’

Not going near that one. After all, doesn’t everyone know that are two polite rules of behavior.

1) Never mention a hair loss to a guy.

2) Never mention weight to a woman.

Never mind my family routinely violated rules one and two in our otherwise wonderful Minnesota household, the latter was certainly worth remembering during this long stay in Omaha.

Am hoping that others will remember it too after a recent pancake-fest. The goal was to eat pancakes and find the best ones. It was ice cream (helado) at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain in 2003, and pancakes at these U.S. Olympic swimming trials.

Vicki Michaelis from USA Today, Kelli Anderson from Sports Illustrated and former LAT colleague (and now NBC correspondent and blogger) Alan Abrahamson hit the breakfast mecca, the Farmhouse Cafe, and were stunned into submission by the amount of food crowding our table. Especially intriguing was the size of the cinnamon bun, somewhere between a hockey puck and a plate.

Yes, size matters. Of the food, that is.

-- Lisa Dillman