Quick, unimportant comment about frozen foods

[lindiril]

Microwaveable frozen meals may be one of my favourite modern technological advances. Five minutes to a single serving of shepherd's pie? Sign me up! Frozen instant food is not as good as fresh, in general, but some of it is pretty decent, and it sure as heck beats cooking when I'm stressing out over assignments and such

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Frozen food cruelty

[stonehilt]

I know that I enjoy frozen food an awful lot, especially for its convenience. But in loading up a Hungry-Man (*cough*) dinner tonight, I found it to be not only a lot of work but also so, so cruel...

There's the typical peeling plastic off of everything but the corn. Yeah, fine, been there, done that. Poking holes in the plastic (although there's no way it's 100% attached anymore so that's kind of a moot point), okay. But this is where it gets me: after 3:30 on high, you have to take it out and remove the brownie before cooking another 1:30. Now, even putting aside the obviously horrendous amounts of extra work that this entails, it also means that you're sitting there for over a minute with a piping hot brownie sitting in front of you while everything else is still warming up. Let the battle of self-control vs hunger commence! Oh, the cruelty...

P.S. Nice job on the image!

Re: Frozen food cruelty

[lindiril]

Heh, brownie-based cruelty. Will it even be warm by the time you finish waiting for the rest of the meal to cook, cool, and be eaten?

The frozen meals I get are pretty simple to prepare. No brownie cruelty for me.

And rearding the image, thanks!