What did you have for supper tonight?

[Evo]

Please let me know if you care to answer your 3 questions and receive your Message (which consists of a remark about something in your PAST, a WARNING for the future, and a LUCKY gemstone and PERSONAL TREE. Don't ask me, these thoughts unfortunately just come to me).

YES! I must know!

In the words of Brillat Savarin "Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are"

For Your Virtual Meal:

That sounds wonderful holly! Well, except for our British friends. Of course, it's no wonder that of all the ethnic food restaurants so popular in the US that you do not find British restaurants.

As for Evo, I was sighing at her usual elegant meal, only to be blindsided with the bald admission that it is some sort of manufactured food from "Sam's Club," and worse, she says she liked it. ONE HUNDRED POINTS FROM EVO.

I'm sorry, I was hungry.

 

[Monique]

Of course, it's no wonder that of all the ethnic food restaurants so popular in the US that you do not find British restaurants.

Have you ever seen a Dutch restaurant? the food is worse than the Brits

I feel so special, I don't have negative points! I'm sorry Evo, Moonbear, Ivan, Ian, Goluk, and everyone else.. I couldn't wait for you all and finished Holly's food by myself, ah.. there's still some chickpeas leftover..

 

[holly]

One hundred points from Monique for eating up all the food, and for disparaging those world-famous Dutch restaurants, which serve such delicacies as sauted dough balls, weak soup, and weaker tea, along with that delicious salted licorice!

No! Now it's Five Hundred Points from Monique, for having a signature in a funny language! Ha!

Ten more points from Evo for quoting some guy I don't know.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Tonight it BBQ skunk with weasle tail and badger bits.

 

[cookiemonster]

All that food is way too good for little ol' me. I don't even know what half of it is! But I like turkey...

I was going to go with something different tonight, but the shortage of other ingredients and the surplus of pasta kinda necessitated a second round. And then I wanted to throw some chicken in it, but then I noticed that we have neither chicken nor a grill to cook it on... Along with a missing car that my brother borrowed for the weekend. So tonight was round two of me vs. pasta & sausage + orange. But I think I might've made too much since I was cooking for only 1 person. =\

cookiemonster

 

[check]

Okay I just got home about 5 minutes ago.
For supper last night I did indeed end up eating half a bag of Doritos as well as a ham and cheese sub from 7eleven. I’m not sure how much beer I drank, but it was quite a lot. IF I hadn’t been drinking, I’m sure I would have had a wonderful supper. Oh well…

 

[holly]

Ah, poor cookiemonster...Cookie, PLEASE consider setting up a begging site. Freesavers.com has lots of good names left. I suggest going with the dot-faithweb name. Set it up, and I will donate to it.

Is there a Wal-Mart superstore near you? Or does California forbid them? If there IS one, go to it. Get yourself a roasted chicken for only $3.28. Then get yourself some of the canned goods for only 33 cents to 63 cents each. Look around the produce section for some cheap produce. The bags of mixed apples and oranges are usually pretty cheap. As for most produce, it's sky-high everywhere right now, though. Please also try to get a job on campus working near food. Surely Caltech has a dinner theater? You sound too klutzy to work near kettles and steam and such in the dining
halls...

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One billion points from Ivan Seeking!

 

[holly]

Check, did drinking up all that beer make you happy? Did it? I doubt it. It is robbing you of good suppers and good health, of that I have no doubt.

ALWAYS MOVE TOWARDS THE POSITIVE in life. ALWAYS KNOW WHAT YOU WANT OUTCOMES TO BE, AND ACT ACCORDINGLY.

 

[cookiemonster]

holly, just one problem... No transportation! It's gone for the weekend.

And once I get to Caltech, I'll be well-fed. We get dinner served to us every weekday, sit-down style, with waiters! And we get to throw it at peop--er... And I'll be able to walk to somewhere I can buy food for weekends!

In the meantime, I just got to survive until the end of the month. Then I'm headed out to Texas where I'll get real food!

Either way, after all the food I just had, I feel like I don't want to eat for the rest of the week...

And I am not klutzy.

cookiemonster

 

[check]

Check, did drinking up all that beer make you happy? Did it? I doubt it. It is robbing you of good suppers and good health, of that I have no doubt.

Actually, I had a pretty good time. Since I usually do eat very good suppers, I think going out drinking once in a while isn't that bad. If I were to do this every day or so, then yes, you'd be correct. Plus, I wasn't drinking alone, I was with friends. Don't worry holly, I'm no alcoholic. 80% of the time there's a party or my friends hitting the bar, I volunteer to be the DD.

 

[check]

Oh, and I wouldn't mind answering the 3 questions.

 

[Math Is Hard]

My goodness Holly, I am STUFFED from that virtual smoragsboard! Thanks ever so! (I got my plate before Monique saw!)
Hopefully I'll only be gaining virtual pounds from all of that!

 

[Gokul43201]

And I had the chickpeas...not too bad ! Washed that down with a swig of scotch - out of a fingerbowl !

 

[Ivan Seeking]

In nature, Ivan Seeking, milk does not come in 2%. That is a manmade product and is against the laws of nature, and you drank it.

We get our 2% from low fat cows. If you check carefully the udders are marked.

 

[Moonbear]

Wow, Holly, what a feast! Though I had to wait a bit for the robotic waiters to return with a fresh supply for the buffet after Monique got to it. Why are you serving us moles? If they aren't the blind, furry kind, what sort of genetically engineered moles did you create? And just a choice of coffee, tea or pop? I'll never sleep! Not to mention that after years of living in the midwest, I still think pop is the strangest word in the world..it's soda! Every time someone offers me a pop, I think "Pop goes the weasel!"...seriously, I do.

Fortunately, I had the full meal listing, so didn't make my usual mistake of filling up on the salad. It was a tough call between roast beef and roast duck, but then I decided that I can cook roast beef for myself, but duck is harder to come by, so went for the duck...excellent glaze on it! I had an assortment of side dishes with it...I love my veggies! And even though I was already feeling pretty stuffed by then, I managed to find room for that heavenly chocolate layer cake with coffee.

Bravo! Excellent meal!

Three questions, what three questions? Who asks the three questions? Can I answer the three questions?

 

[The Bob]

Clarification needed from The Bob: When he says he eats "chips," does he mean chips, or does he mean steak fries? He loses a point for that.

I mean chips (hence I did not say french fries or steak chips or potato chips [point back ]).

Anyway is this being carried on? Do I need to say what I had yesterday and today and then tomorrow?

And what do I do with the virtual meals plus the Brits have nice restaurants. You must have been to Portsmouth ( ). I am up for the three questions.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[holly]

Re: The Bob: Should he keep posting his suppers?

My opinion is, when a thread is made, the originator has no more say about what happens to that thread. Hence my snide amusement at the idea of people wanting to police the threads. If anyone wishes to continue listing their suppers, by all means do so. I made this thread as an experiment meant to reveal things, and it did. I asked for three consecutive supper reports, and received the reports. Now, the thread is on its own, with my thanks to all those who participated. MANY THINGS WERE REVEALED.

 

[Evo]

Re: The Bob: Should he keep posting his suppers?

It won't be the same without your comments holly. This has been a really fun thread.

 

[The Bob]

It has been fun but :shy: where are the results? Sorry.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[jimmy p]

my supper tonight was Spaghetti Bolognese using Turkish spices mixed together by a very nice vendor, who mixed his meal spices together. I love Turkey.

 

[BobG]

Saturday meal:

My family meals are going steadily downhill. Left alone in the house with just my son to keep me company, we ate fast food - and not even from the same place. I had the Burger King Whopper (with cheese), french fries, and a coke. My son had the MacDonald's Quarter Pounder, french fries, and some kind of drink.

But I did make us some homemade milkshakes with Breyer's vanilla ice cream and Hershey's chocolate syrup. No milk, though - Holly's comment about my salsa going bad made we a little worried about the milk in the fridge. Made for some good thick shakes, almost as thick as a Frosty (oh, no! - is this some kind of fast food twilight zone?)

 

[holly]

BobG:
_______________________
Can you say Heimlich?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

It has been fun but :shy: where are the results? Sorry.

The Bob (2004 ©)

I am pretty sure that at -1,000,000,050 points, I lost. Still not quite sure what though.

 

[The Bob]

Still would like to know the results unless they have not been posted yet.

I have most likely just missed them.

The Bob (2004 ©)

 

[BobG]

BobG:
_______________________
Can you say Heimlich?

Funny.

But do you even know what Hemmi is? (Hint: It's not a Hemi.)

 

[holly]

Hemmi...hmmm...is it some funny sort of math tool?

 

[jimmy p]

Isnt it a slide rule?

 

[BobG]

Yes, kind of. Actually, it's a slide rule company. Not only did they make several different kinds of slide rules under their own name, but they made slide rules for Post in the US and Hughes-Owen in Canada.

And while slide rules once were valuable math tools, nowadays they've mostly become weapons of math instruction used by teachers looking for a little more visual way to show math relationships.

 

[cookiemonster]

Holly, I looked at the pre-cooked and it wasn't anywhere near $3! They were like $13! And none of the produce was on sale, and none of it looked too good, either... A few weeks ago they had strawberries for like 60% off and I bought some of those, but now they're back up to their normal costliness.

But I was thinking of buying some chicken, throwing it in a pan, and throwing it on the stove. Think it'll work?

cookiemonster

 

[holly]

cookiemonster, I am appalled at those prices on the chicken. I suspect this is because you are in California, and not in God's Country (Midland, Texas). A person can live decently here on very little money. You can have a nice house, get nice things to eat, have cute clothes, all reasonable in price. You can have a whole chicken, roasted with jalapeno jelly on it, for only $3.28.

Yes, you can cook the chicken on the stove. Do you have a pan lid? Do you know how to quickly saute the chicken to brown it, then slowly cook it in a very small amount of water with the lid on tightly? The problem with trying to help students cook is that the poor things have NOTHING. They usually don't even have a pan. I will be relieved when cookiemonster is being fed properly by the CalTech staff.