Useless Conversation

[Selby]

Except the truck stop burritos (the yellow kind.. poor man's chimi).

Thank you for making me lose my lunch with bad memories of elementary school food...

[FatuousTwat]

About the only decent thing we had at our school was pizza, but only if you put ranch on it. That and the fact that there was a great array of vending machines.

[Lantyssa]

This place is so white trash though that they used to serve it during school lunch. Came up on the menu every few weeks.

And it never was any good.  The school cafeteria really could fuck anything up.

I actually liked the hamburgers.

[Signe]

Hey, Voodoolily has a blog!

She has two!  One is about yummy yummies and the other is about just baking a ham!

[voodoolily]

Better still were the $.40 cookies that took one of those blobs, mushed it between two chocolate chip cookies and drizzled chocolate on top of it.  That and a "fiesta pizza" was the lunch staple of my 7th & 8th grade lunchroom table crew.

I loved those fatty chocolate chip cookies that were only half-baked, just gooey warm dough perfection. And the fiesta pizzas! Even lower quality than a Totino's party pizza - just hamburger, tomato sauce and B-grade cheese on a floppy, tortilla-thin crust. I was also a cafeteria worker and used to eat the shit out of that crap. Man, I loved that so much.

[rattran]

So this morning I wake up to a bright, sunny, breezy day. And then spend 2.5 hours in the dentist chair having 3 teeth preped for crowns. Then spend 5 hours in drug addled sleep.

It's been a long day.

[Engels]

need to ask for laughing gas mang. that stuff is so funny I end up looking forward to my next appointment.

[Signe]

I went to the dentist today, too.  Every time I do I'm sure I'll die.  I haven't yet but I'm willing to bet I will next time.

[Merusk]

Huh.. were I a woman I'd be more worried about being groped in my sleep than dying.  I'm not sure which is the worse mental scenario.

[Cyrrex]

Were I a woman, I'd be groping myself all the live long day.

[Signe]

I don't usually fall asleep at my dentist's office.  

Wait.  Didn't you already tell me you are a woman?  Do you post just to unsettle me?!

[Trippy]

KFC's new grilled chicken is...not good. Stick with the fried chicken.

[Cyrrex]

Wait.  Didn't you already tell me you are a woman?  Do you post just to unsettle me?!

If that was directed at me, the answer to the first is an emphatic NO, and the answer to the second is a partial YES.

[Signe]

Well, some one did.  Now I'm going to wonder and suspect all the C names.

[Cyrrex]

No, I seem to remember attempting to mislead you at some point.  I've probably only confused matters even more with my smoking hot avatar.

[Nevermore]

Ah, but the smoking hot avatar is usually a pretty good indication that the poster is male.

[Hindenburg]

Following that logic, since I used Ahmadinejad, Sharon and Arafat as avatars, I should be Afrodite unleashed?

[stray]

I was a smiling chimp, now followed by a smiling Wooderson

[Sky]

And the fiesta pizzas! Even lower quality than a Totino's party pizza - just hamburger, tomato sauce and B-grade cheese on a floppy, tortilla-thin crust.

Wow, the only pizza we got (remember, predominantly Italian region) was cheap pre-baked thick crust with thin tomato sauce and a scant dusting of parmesan added after cooking. It's the most awful stuff ever. There was literally nothing worth eating at the school lunch counter in my town, except the french fries, and you had to make friends with the lunch ladies just to get them cooked right.

It's a wonder with my upbringing that I ever learned to cook properly. One of my best first dishes was a linguine with butter sauce...I'd add fresh and very pungent indica leaves to the pasta and butter and toss it. Soooo tasty! Then learning the secret of cracked pepper when we ran out of the dusty pre-ground crap when I was living in LA, someone's mother had sent them a care pack of crap she was throwing out, and there was a bottle of peppercorns nobody knew what to do with. So I dumped some on the counter and used the bottle to crack them, the wonderful aroma reaching my nostrils. Put it on a steak and broiled it.

Thank God for Pasquale.

[MrHat]

Why did I watch Salo?

[rattran]

Why did I watch Salo?

Because you weren't depressed enough?

[Lantyssa]

I was a smiling chimp, now followed by a smiling Wooderson

Based on your avatars, you're a very gay man.

[stray]

I feel.

[Cheddar]

Well, some one did.  Now I'm going to wonder and suspect all the C names.

wut

[Yegolev]

8 O'clock Coffee and a French Press is the shit. Just simple and good. Now all I need is a carton of Lucky Strikes.

And some bacon.  My wife cooks it in the microwave.  Wrap it in a paper towel and put it in for six to ten minutes, depending on quantity and how pussified your oven is.

Saw Dennis Leary last night, was very good.  Actually also Kenny Rodgerson(sp?), Adam Ferrara(sp?) and Lenny Clark too.  Lenny is funny as shit.

[Yegolev]

I was a smiling chimp, now followed by a smiling Wooderson

Based on your avatars, you're a very gay man.

Don't forget the post contents, too.  Very damning!

[Fraeg]

8 O'clock Coffee and a French Press is the shit. Just simple and good. Now all I need is a carton of Lucky Strikes.

And some bacon.  My wife cooks it in the microwave.  Wrap it in a paper towel and put it in for six to ten minutes, depending on quantity and how pussified your oven is.

Saw Dennis Leary last night, was very good.  Actually also Kenny Rodgerson(sp?), Adam Ferrara(sp?) and Lenny Clark too.  Lenny is funny as shit.

   Microwaved bacon sounds atrocious.  I picture rubbery flaccid strips of nastiness.  Is it precooked bacon or something that she is reheating?

[Reg]

Microwave bacon comes out fine. 5 or 6 minutes at high power and then make sure you put it on something to drain the grease before you eat it.

[Merusk]

I've only eaten bacon from the microwave for 20 some years now when at home.  They make racks for it so that the grease isn't a problem.  # 3, 4 or 5 are my preferred racks.  It comes out just like from the frying pan but less greasy. You can cook it all the way to rigid, crispy goodness or parboil it to that flaccid, chewy state some people seem to enjoy.

[Fraeg]

huh.. i guess I will have to try that.


I have always done the (well I don't know what this method is called) put the bacon in my dutch oven, add a knuckle or so of water and boil it down, takes a bit longer, but tastes great.

[FatuousTwat]

I'll have to try this, cooking it normally produces too much mess. I hate cleaning up all that grease.

[Johny Cee]

I've only eaten bacon from the microwave for 20 some years now when at home.  They make racks for it so that the grease isn't a problem.  # 3, 4 or 5 are my preferred racks.  It comes out just like from the frying pan but less greasy. You can cook it all the way to rigid, crispy goodness or parboil it to that flaccid, chewy state some people seem to enjoy.

This.

Put it on a rack, put paper towels below and above it, and cook.  It'll come out dry and crispy...  The texture is like a very brittle, crispy bacon cracker.  Just about the only way I like bacon.

[apocrypha]

We have different bacon here from you guys. I eat smoked back bacon, often dry-cured and they use all sorts of nice (but bad for you) things like sugars & spices in the curing. When you then fry it, at just the right heat, you get caramelised and burnt sugars on the outside. You don't get that when you microwave it.

Microwaving is ok for unsmoked streaky bacon, but that's for cooking with imo 

[Signe]

I don't think streaky bacon is nice from the microwave, either.  I know I can tell the difference.  Maybe it's because the microwave doesn't really make it crispy - it just sort of makes it hard.  I cook every sort of bacon in a skillet.  It takes ten seconds to wipe off the cooker.  Get better cleaning stuff!  I use the microwave for quick popcorn and warming things up. 

PS  Streaky bacon is totally better than back bacon!

[Yegolev]

The bothersome thing is that I'm the one cooking the bacon and I'm the one cleaning up the kitchen, yet it is the wife that complains about the mess.  Women.