Delicate Sensibilities

[bluechromis]

Poor J had a rough weekend. First he had to spend his morning on Saturday going to Quincy to get his car from the shop. Not that the damage from the Great IPod Heist of 2005 is fixed, mind you, but he'd been planning on using my unreliable piece of crap to get to his soccer game, and my car lived up to its name by not starting. So, after

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[webrat]

*chuckles* - My mother used to make homemade coleslaw that everyone insists on having every year. About 5 years ago or something, she secretly switched over to the store made coleslaw and never told anyone. I'm the only person that knows the truth. Every thanksgiving, I always hold that over her head so that I can get some extra food to take home with me. ;) *grins*

[bluechromis]

Does she buy the sauce too, or just pre-shredded cabbage and stuff? Cuz I also buy the pre-shredded veggies, then mix up the sauce myself. That's why it's made with a touch of LOVE.

[webrat]

She used to shred and make her own sauce. Now, she does neither. She walks up to the Deli counter, looks both ways up and down the aisle not to be spotted and whispers, "Can I have a thing of coleslaw please?" I usually about this time, jest that they should announce it over the store.

[bluechromis]

J's grandma, until rather recently, insisted on making the coleslaw for Christmas dinner. Watching an old woman who has had multiple heart-attacks and is bent in half by osteoporosis shred cabbage for literally hours is illuminating. The take home lesson is DON'T MAKE IT FROM SCRATCH, it will kill you. Your mother is a smart woman.

[flexagon]

Ha ha ha! Yep, the giant ding dong cake calls for a box of devil's food cake mix. First ingredient. :)

Back when I was a geek-in-training in mech E, I once found myself studying the use of extrusion in food manufacturing. It's kind of cool, and extremely common (pasta, Twizzlers, etc). But I completely repulsed this one guy I lived with at the time. Extruded... doesn't that mean, like, comes out of a machine? Ewww!

No, idiot, there's a South African village where a bunch of pygmies sit around night and day making each of your Cheerios BY HAND.

It's a tough wake-up call we give some of these people.

[flexagon]

P.S. Hope the bio test went okay. :)

[bluechromis]

Heheh, yeah, I'm all about the romance of food from scratch as the next person, but I guess I'm more accepting of reality. I realize now that my mistake was in letting him see me make them. FOOL! Everyone knows that you mix it up, put out flour and egg and baking powder, and put some on your nose, then complain about how exhausting it all was. I'm a dummy.

[bluechromis]

PS. Bio went better than expected, thanks for remembering. :) I hope we get the tests back soon, I'm all nervous.