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Rated: 13+ · Book · Experience · #2223922

A tentative blog to test the temperature.

#1107635 added February 5, 2026 at 11:08am
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Everything
Everything

The song chosen for The 48-Hour Challenge Media Prompt for February is unusual in its title. The simple word “Everything” would seem a bit large to be dealt with in a song of less than four minutes. My mind drifts away to the everything bagel.

The first time I saw an everything bagel, I thought immediately that it must be flavoured with all the spices in the book. That is surely what the name means, after all. And I continued under this delusion for a few years afterwards.

In that time, I tried the everything bagel quite often and, while not becoming my favourite variation on the bagel theme, it was acceptable at least. I was even quite pleased when I discovered that it was possible to buy a bottle of this mixture of spices to sprinkle on things other than bagels.

That was also the period in which I discovered it was possible to have too much of a good thing. Sprinkle an excess of everything seasoning on your favourite foodstuff and you’ll wish you hadn’t. Moderation is definitely the way to go with this baby.

Anyway, that’s leading me away from my point in all this. The time came when I discovered that everything seasoning does not contain all the types of spices under the sun. It’s a selection!

You can imagine my disappointment. The whole thing is a misnomer, apparently. In fact, it seems that the spice world has a weakness for this kind of thing. They also have something called allspice that is really just one spice obtained from a certain unripe berry. Talk about misleading the gullible public (yes, I know I’m a good example of this but I maintain that there’s nothing wrong with innocence).

So my feelings regarding Michael Bublé’s Everything song are cautious, to say the least. Does he really mean it and is it possible that he’s managed to include everything in his offering? My newfound skepticism laughs at the very idea.


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