primitives discuss food addiction

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=236x75816

Oh my.

Tesha  (1000+ posts)      Tue Mar-09-10 08:29 PM
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You might be a foodie...

http://www.seriouseats.com/talk/2010/03/you-might-be-a-...

"You might be a foodie if....

Posted by buffy, March 5, 2010 at 10:11 PM

My friend brought up this topic the other day and I thought it was hilarious. What quirks do you have that identify you as a foodie? His was, "...if you want to make a grilled-cheese sandwich, but you only have three kinds of cheese.""

here's mine

.... if you browse your cookbook shelves when you're looking for a good book to read.

hippywife  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-09-10 08:46 PM
MRS. ALFRED PACKER
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1. I'm definitely in the category of spending more money on food and kitchen stuff than clothes. I hate to shop for anything except food. When it's food shopping time, I'm there, babe!

And the camera bit, too, but in my own kitchen not in a restaurant. I have a photobucket album with lots and lots of food pics.

And spending an entire free day in the kitchen.

These, too:

...you buy ingredients because they look great and figure out what to make with them later.

...when someone asks you what your favorite food is and you can't answer

...if your friends get mad when you show up at a party and didn't make your famous (whatever)because you wanted to try a new recipe....

...your friends tell you conversations with you always make them hungry

...grocery shopping is a mood-booster

...You fall in love with a dish at a restaurant and decide you want to recreate it at home - successfully

I'm going to stop reading now before it gets worse. There are many more extremes on there that I don't fit into.

kfred  (89 posts)     Tue Mar-09-10 09:37 PM
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2. Oh, Lordie, hippywife

My sides are aching. I'm the one on the airplane with a cookbook to kill time (if you can get me out of the kitchen).

My idea of cooking success is to get someone to try something new.

I have more pots and pans than underwear.

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-10-10 12:37 AM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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8. Yeah, I have more pots and pans than shoes and I'm a centipede because my feet tend to change shape frequently depending on what parts are swollen and I need to adjust my footwear.

You know you're a foodie if you read cookbooks like sane people read novels.

You know you're a foodie when you're bored by travelogues and movies unless they feature people chopping stuff up and stuffing their faces in every scene.

You know you're a foodie when you have to explain to checkout stand clerks how your weird veggies are spelled and how to cook them, annoying the six people behind you.

You know you're a foodie when you send your regrets to any gathering that doesn't specify everybody bring something to eat. (I haven't been to a wedding that didn't have a covered dish reception in 32 years)

You know you're a foodie when you can't sleep and you get up at 2:30 AM and go cook something.

You know you're a foodie when you can order from the menu in 8 different languages but can't speak a word of any of them in normal conversation.

You know you're a foodie when all the pictures you've lifted from photo.net to vary your wallpaper are all of food.

cbayer   (1000+ posts)      Tue Mar-09-10 09:56 PM
THE BAYER ASPRIN PRIMITIVE
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3. When you start planning your next meal before you finish the one in front of you.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-09-10 10:37 PM
THE SPARKLING HUSBAND PRIMITIVE, #05 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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4. If, when your wife is in Geneva, you ask her to video a grocery store instead of the Alps .....

.... you might be a foodie!

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Wed Mar-10-10 12:48 AM
THE FARMERETTE IN WISCONSIN
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9. oh I love to explore groceries in other places

That's my favorite tourist activity. And when anyone comes home from a trip, I always want to know what they had to eat.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-10-10 10:16 AM
THE SPARKLING HUSBAND PRIMITIVE, #05 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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11. Last night's e-mail had pictures of a row of coffee makers for sale, a whole row of various .......

..... chocolates ....... an in-grocery-store wine tasting ......... you get the idea!

kestrel91316  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-10-10 10:43 PM
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12. When I went to France in 2001 I spent over an hour browsing in a small local supermarket near the village I stayed in - not to buy much food, mind you, because I wanted to spend my money in the little village shops, but I just HAD to see what filled the shelves of a FRENCH supermarket.

I also love browsing in our local Middle Eastern and Indian and asian and kosher and Hispanic markets right here in Los Angeles, lol.

Phentex  (1000+ posts)        Wed Mar-10-10 07:30 AM
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10. You start Thanksgiving and Xmas dinners by filming the table...and then taking digital pictures and THEN taking pictures when the family is seated.

You store a variety of vinegars, oils, and mustards because you might need them.

You have several folders on your computer for food links, recipes, and shopping for kitchen items.

You research and plan out "snack stops" when you are going out of town.

tango-tee  (610 posts)      Fri Mar-12-10 02:08 AM
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13. I do that, too! Love reading cookbooks.

When I get ready to try a new recipe for Sunday dinner, I just can't wait until it's time to get started.

And markets... When I lived in Sicily for four years, the market in our tiny town was great! The wonderful fruits and vegetables, the fresh fish - I think I need to make a run to the store, see what looks good.

kimi  (334 posts)      Fri Mar-12-10 07:25 PM
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14. I have probably thousands of cookbooks

haven't made a fraction of the recipes in them, I just love to read em. All kinds, ethnic, oddball, organic, church dinner, antique - and I will never part with one of them. Don't know if it makes me a foodie or not, but my family sure thinks it odd.

Oh, and shopping in foreign groceries - I love it! I can't bring home postcards and cheesy snowglobes - nope, I bring home pasta and focaccia mix and honeys and cereal and biscuits . . . Yummmm!!

franksolich is no "foodie," whatever that is, but whatever rocks one's chair.....

[The Village Idiot]

Would the Las Vegas Leviathan qualify as a foodee?

[franksolich]

Would the Las Vegas Leviathan qualify as a foodee?

The gigantic primitive alleges to be down to 425 pounds now, but I don't believe it.

[Carl]

kfred  (89 posts)     Tue Mar-09-10 09:37 PM
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2. Oh, Lordie, hippywife

My sides are aching. I'm the one on the airplane with a cookbook to kill time (if you can get me out of the kitchen).

My idea of cooking success is to get someone to try something new.

I have more pots and pans than underwear.

Since this is a DUmmy it means their pots and pans count is 2.

[Ree]

kfred  (89 posts)     Tue Mar-09-10 09:37 PM
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2. Oh, Lordie, hippywife

My sides are aching. I'm the one on the airplane with a cookbook to kill time (if you can get me out of the kitchen).

My idea of cooking success is to get someone to try something new.

I have more pots and pans than underwear.

That's just gross....who has more pots and pans than panties?

[The Village Idiot]

That's just gross....who has more pots and pans than panties?

Maybe she doesn't wear panties?

[kenth]

Maybe she doesn't wear panties?

We're treading dangerous mental waters now. To change the subject, I bet Mrs. Packer is never short of "special ingredients" in the freezer.

[franksolich]

We're treading dangerous mental waters now. To change the subject, I bet Mrs. Packer is never short of "special ingredients" in the freezer.

Watch it, sir.

I got a germ of an idea, about "St. Patrick's Day with Mrs. Alfred Packer and Wild Bill," where corned......uh, something......is on the menu.

I dunno if I'll write it or not, though.

[The Village Idiot]

Write it from the perspective of the cat, if they have one. heh

[franksolich]

Write it from the perspective of the cat, if they have one. heh

Mrs. Alfred Packer has two or three cats.

My problem is, I can't think of a suitable ending for the story.

[longview]

Mrs. Alfred Packer has two or three cats.

My problem is, I can't think of a suitable ending for the story.

Her Irish neighbors either flee or retaliate?

[The Village Idiot]

Her Irish neighbors either flee or retaliate?

Has to be some sort of explosion.

I'm thinking Septic tank.

[BlueStateSaint]

Watch it, sir.

I got a germ of an idea, about "St. Patrick's Day with Mrs. Alfred Packer and Wild Bill," where corned......uh, something......is on the menu.

I dunno if I'll write it or not, though.

C'mon, Coach . . . you know that you want to!

[crockspot]

That's just gross....who has more pots and pans than panties?

*waves hand*

[The Village Idiot]

*waves hand*

lol.

Right, that crate of panties in your attic from all your conquests counts too.

[kenth]

Has to be some sort of explosion.

I'm thinking Septic tank.

A family feast with the Irish neighbors? Wonder how many neighbors the Packer clan would have to have over for dinner to do that?

Probably 60 or so, considering the average density of a person being basically that of water and a 1500 gallon septic tank. 

[GOBUCKS]

Didn't we have chunks of hippywife broadcast all over the Oklahoma countryside just a couple of months ago? There was an outbreak of kitchen explosions in DUmmyland around Christmastime.

[franksolich]

Didn't we have chunks of hippywife broadcast all over the Oklahoma countryside just a couple of months ago? There was an outbreak of kitchen explosions in DUmmyland around Christmastime.

"Christmas at Grandma's" was the only story worth a damn.

All the rest were lousy, really lousy, because at the time, right after "Christmas at Grandma's" was posted, I was besieged by really lousy weather that lasted for several weeks, blocking me in, souring the attitude, blowing the mind, causing one to chew on the ceiling in vexation.

Endless snow can do that to a person.

And so other than "Christmas at Grandma's," I would just as soon forget all those half-told stories that followed, and start all over again.

That's what there is about God, that the primitives don't understand.

God forgives; one messes up, God says "okay, forget about it, and start all over again, to see if it works this time."

Decent and civilized people can forgive themselves because God forgives; a primitive screws up, and damns himself forever for being imperfect.

[AprilRazz]

you visit grocery stores like it is a tourist destination when you are traveling out of town

I found myself doing that at a Wegmans a few hours away from home.