Jemm Radio UK
I was a guest on the NDebz Radio Show on Jemm 1 Radio in the UK, with Hosts Neil Sexton and Debbie Ryan.
http://www.jemmone.com/author/neilsexton/
It was a pleasure to be one of their ‘Love Experts’ for Valentine’s Week.
Per Neil’s request, I broke down his fridge. Here my report.
Stonehill Analysis
There’s a clear cultural difference between European and American refrigeration. If I saw Neil’s model in LA, it’d be like the Peter Dinklage of fridges. Maybe Danny Devito on a good day.
But in the UK, you guys are more caring for the environment, and buy more of your ingredients for home-cooked meals fresh on that day, which I love. In the US, we shop once a week out and shove as much shit into that fridge as possible.
Now, diving into Neil’s Fridge, it’s clean, a big plus. Do I need to see spotless? No. But if the place where you store what’s going in your body is filthy, it’s a red flag. (I’ve watched enough Charlie Brown to know no one wanted to shag Pig Pen)
Neil’s fridge is also organized. Chaos in one’s fridge usually equals chaos on one’s life. As I mentioned in my first Gay Fridge analysis http://tinyurl.com/muw9ftv, my gay friends are more culturally advanced (and cooler than I am), so I hold Neil up to a higher standard.
He’s not the natural born host I was hoping to see, but there are some positives…
For one, Neil is a healthy chap. (And one we have to assume looks good naked.) He’s eating well with chicken and turkey breast, and tons of veggies including carrots, which remind me of those giant mutated vegetables they had on Gilligan’s Island.
Now, some say if you want to know what your date is going to look like in 20 years, check out their mom or dad. I say check out their fridge. Cause what they’re putting in their bodies now is going to be a big factor in what they’re going to look like down the road.
Now on a different front, Neil has a serious supply of ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter’. As I can’t believe he’s moonlighting as a body-double for Fabio, I look for other clues…and voila, he has Store, an ingredient to make cakes. (And a great way to impress a lucky date :)
The fact that he shops at a Co-Op tells me he wants to support local businesses and cares about the environment. This is backed up by his outdoor-bred pork, which brings up the well-known fact: happier pigs = tastier bacon.
Lastly, I don’t see any beer, wine or liquor. He might store it elsewhere, but I wonder if he doesn’t drink. Again, nothing is black and white, it’s about what’s a fit for us. Speaking for myself, I’d get lonely if I always had to drink (and get occasionally sloppy drunk) alone.
Now, when it comes to dating, you have to put yourself out there. If you have the time, even if it’s just a drink, you should go on as many dates as possible.
If Neil happens to be one of those dates, I don’t know if there’d be a love connection, but from what I see in his fridge, it’d be well-worth getting to know him better.
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