I've decided to open a Chinese restaurant...an adult-themed Chinese restaurant. Here's what the menu will look like:
Peeking Duck
Vegetable Chow Fun
Actually, that's all I've come up with. And I didn't modify the last one. It just sounded funny to me as-is.
Yesterday I ate too much dessert and drank too much milk. I told Trisha that my stomach was aching a little bit from it last night. First, I had half of a cookie that we bought from Mad Cakes around the corner from our house, a "Chewy Chocolate Cookie" which ended up tasting more like a thin brownie than anything; then an old fashioned style sour cream doughnut, one of those weird shaped ones with a bigger hole in the middle and tastes more cakey than even the average doughnut, chocolate; and lastly a pudding filled bismark. I've heard these called eclair doughnuts, Boston cream doughnuts, but whatever they are, they usually suck and don't have much filling in them. Just a tiny squirt that fills 1/4 of the doughnut and leaves my mouth watering for what I paid for and wondering why I keep calling these my favorite doughnuts. This one was rectangular, so naturally it didn't taste as good as a round one. However, it actually had the right ratio of doughnut to pudding filling. I had intended to save the bismark for today, but my painful Arabic reading made me crave success, so naturally I turned to my bismark. And I didn't want it to get stale. Or lonely. Note that I left half the cookie.
Today, after vowing I wouldn't make the same mistake again, I pulled out the other half of the cookie. Trisha groaned and rolled her eyes. I told her I didn't want to end up binging like I did last night, so I'd just go ahead and eat the cookie now. While conversing, I finished the cookie, wiped my mouth and drank my water (not as good as yesterday's milk). Mentally finished, I started wadding my paper cookie wrapper up to throw away. When what to my astonishment I discovered one last bit of cookie!! I completely derailed from our conversation--justifiably--praised all that was holy, and made the bit last for three additional bites. Now was not this exceeding joy?
On a completely unrelated note, I started reading "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser which talks about America and our terrible eating habits. I am appalled.
I wrote a post one time after I read that book. You, too, can be bored by it by going to http://johnpruess.blogspot.com/2006/08/fast-food-nation.html. :-) Actually, I found the book rather interesting, but found the author's political slant and his desire for more government as the solution to rather off-putting (as I noted in my post). The hard-hitting facts part of the book will be interesting to anyone, though.
ReplyDeleteI'm still working my way through it. I read up to the history and a little bit further before getting distracted for a bit. Fascinating thus far. I also read your post: also interesting, despite your best efforts :)
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