Can you make your brain hang upside down? Good.
Now, can you wrap it around the fact that the last godfather of punk has come out with a red liquid we’re meant to put on unleavened dough? That’s right. Marky Ramone has come out with his own line of pasta sauce!
Has the man completely abandoned his senses? TBD! One thing is clear: Ramone has abandoned any aspirations of the quirky low-brow genius lyricism for which his former band was so beloved. The tag line for his new line of sauce is simply, “A recipe so flavorful it beats the rest.”
Mkay, so he kind of phoned that one in, but his passion for pasta sauce appears to be legit.
“It may sound corny, but I’ve got this pasta sauce coming out called ‘Marky Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own Pasta Sauce,’” he said in a recent interview. “You see, I made it with my grandpa; he was a chef at 21 Club. I watched him as a little boy, and then when I got older, I lived alone at 18, and so pasta sauce and spaghetti was the cheapest thing around.
“I got really good at making it, and so I am excited I get to share my recipe with others. And I got to do the artwork on bottle, and it’s really cool looking. Soon it will be sold in stores; right now you can only get it online and in restaurants.”
The proceeds will go to Iraqi War vets–maybe Marky hasn’t lost his marbles after all.
To purchase a little chunk of edible punk, go to his site. At the very least, you’ll have a “cool looking” bottle and the knowledge that, for once, your hard-earned money is lining the pockets of people who probably need it more than you do.
TOPICS: Eat to the Beat, Kathleen Willcox