From: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian)
Subject: Re: Cold Showers
Reply-To: z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson -- Iowegian)
Organization: Sensitive Guys Martial Arts and Gun Club
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 04:32:41 GMT

In article <167C311DD4.ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu>
ELLBRUA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (The Lemming) writes:
>In article <10227@cernvax.cern.ch>
>steveb@cernvax.cern.ch (Steve Bougerolle) writes:
> 
>>Obweirdness:  I never have understood how English food got such a bad
>>reputation.  I like meat & potatoes, myself, at least every once in a while.
> 
>But the English seem to think that meat should be cooked until it
>resembles a greyish lump of shoe leather.  Beef should be rare!
>Barely warm in the center!  Bright red!  Dripping with warm blood as
>if freshly killed with your own teeth after a hard chase across the
>savanna.  Blood!  Blood!  (snarl, drool)

	I'm getting a hard-on just thinking about it!  Pardon me...

<wank> <wank> <wank> <"OhMyGawdDoesWarmBloodLubricate!  Yeeeess!!>

	Ahem...  Now then, meat and potatoes are a staple of what is known
as "white trash" cooking, also known as "country style" cooking.  Any
meal has to have a meat dish, a SeriousCarbohydrate dish, and a
ClogThoseArteries dish to be a true meal.

	Peeve: I worked in a restraunt once, and the chef once tried
for a good ten minutes to explain how there were several options on
the menu and I could eat any one of them for lunch, not just the hot
beef sandwich.  Apparently some people *enjoy* eating.

	Look, I don't enjoy eating.  Oh sure, there are a few foods
that I consider worth taking a half hour or so to devour, but with the
exception of Kobe beef and Big Daddy's Bar-B-Q, there is damn little
by way of culinary delights that's worth more than fifteen minutes of
my valuable time.  Food is for fueling this massive engine of
destruction, and most certainly not for getting excited about.

	AndAnotherGoddamnPeeve: my mother, sister, girlfriend, and
several others gave me no end of shit because for two years I lived
on one can of either Dinty More Beef Stew, Campbell's soup with a
piece of bread, or a Chicken pot pie, and a beer or five per day.  That's
it.  "You can't live like that!" they'd say, all the while gaining
weight and joining health clubs to try and stay healthy.  This is a
huge crock of shit, since I was quite healthy during that time.  Now
that I have a girlfriend cooking regular meals and the like I am
starting to eat healthy and, to be quite honest, I am feeling more
and more like just dying and getting it over with.

	StillAnotherGoddamPeeve: I work as a computer geek, and I
am a student.  This means I sit on my ass for 90% of the time I am
awake.  Hence, I don't burn a whole lot of calories each day, and
I have little need of a high-calorie diet.  Why, then, do people
tend to go totally apeshit when I mention something like, "No thanks,
I ate yesterday." or, "I'm not hungry, really.  After all, I had a
sandwich already."?  Don't these people know that the human body
is quite capable of sending signals letting you know it needs
food, and there is little use in giving it more than it needs?  You
would think I had squiked a former pope or something if I skipped
a hearty breakfast or dinner!

	!Peeve: I can drink nearly five gallons of homebrew a week
and not gain a single pound.  On the other hand, I haven't been
losing any weight, either.

--
<Daniel R. Sorenson   Dod #1066  |If Iowa State University agreed with me >
<z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu <- work |I'd make $90K/yr.  They don't, I don't. >
<viking@iastate.edu      <- play |"I am *not* goofing off.  I am driving  >
< myself mercilessly in the pursuit of relaxation." -- T. Weeds           >
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