You know, sometimes I just have it up to here with the crowds and bustle of the city.
	So, I pack the car, and take off for relaxation.
	Now, when I say ‘take off,’ that’s about an hour to pack everything, an hour to get out of the city,
	…two hours on the freeway, and another hour to get to the site and set up camp.
	So after 5 hours work, do I really want to add any more time to put together a meal before bed? I came here to RELAX! Instead, I grab a bite -
	From under the hood! You thought I was just steering and ducking cops all day? I was cooking!
	So how does this work? Well, that’s why I brought my mechanic on the trip.
	As your mechanic, I advise you to park closer to a hotel. Preferably in Vegas.
	Yes, well, Vegas is about two roasts and a turkey leg away. What can you tell us about the history of car-cooking?
	On Christmas eve, 1893, Henry Ford perfected a gas-powered stove in his kitchen sink in Detroit.
	Adding seating and a roof to the stove was an obvious development, and in 1896 he drove his first dining room thru the wall of his shed.
	Soon, the self-propelled stoves were all over the country,
	...but they were sold without recipes, so people didn’t know how to cook with them.
	Alternate sources of travel food soon dotted the highways and byways.
	Now, cross country truckers claim to have been cooking on their rigs for years, but….
	…all they’re doing is reheating cooked foods on their engine blocks. It isn’t much more than a gas powered microwave.
	But, if you’re a traditionalist, you want to use the oven as intended.
	Now, if we had a Star Trek Tricorder, we could find the spots with the exact temperature we need to cook food with. But we can’t use this.
	My attorneys will deal with copyright infringement….and some of them are Vulcans.
	So the way I calibrate the engine is placing baking potatoes around the engine, and driving for an hour.
	If you wrap tightly in foil, it won’t pick up any flavor from the engine. No worse than a Bar-B-Que, anyway.
	So if you know the spot that cooks a potato in an hour, you can figure out what else to cook there, and for how long driving.
	And there’s plenty of room under the hood for extra servings, just in case you get visitors...
	…like agents wandering around, on the trail of Sasquatch, or The Jersey Devil.
	You guys investigating anything with indoor plumbing in the next hour or so?
	Another Toy Tower Production

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