One of my guilty pleasures is watching the reality series of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. We get to see the three-part audition process to identify candidates for training camp and then follow training camp.
The funniest part, to me, is the panel interview during the final auditions. Each year, there's someone (or several someones) completely out of touch. The stand-out this year was the candidate who didn't know what the initials CIA stood for and could only come up with "Federal" for the FBI initials.
And later in training camp, there is an "etiquette" lesson where the candidates are served a meal in a fancy restaurant and learn proper table manners. This is purposefully difficult, as the candidates are served food that is not easy to eat. This year, the group was served quail, and one candidate said she'd never eaten quail before, but she knew it was a kind of fish. (Reminiscent of Jessica Simpson and her Chicken of the Sea conundrum?) On the opposite side of the spectrum, another candidate readily identified quail as a game bird, relaying that she regularly went quail hunting.
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