December 27th, 2007
Dishy delight
I have managed to grasp the intricacies of genetics, bent my mind around quantum physics and studied everything I can.
I can comprehend death and love.
But I just can’t understand this idea of cold soup.
I have managed to grasp the intricacies of genetics, bent my mind around quantum physics and studied everything I can.
I can comprehend death and love.
But I just can’t understand this idea of cold soup.
Philip J Schadenfreude on 
There’s a lot of things people eat that I don’t understand. Mayonnaise, for instance.
I second that. Ew. Mayonnaise.
I third that. Mayonnaise is my enemy in foodstuffs.
I remember my mother
feeding me a mayonnaise
and bread sandwich when
we didn’t have anything.
You got bread on your mayo sandwhich? Rich bastards….. /tic
I just don’t understand why anyone who didn’t have to be on a liquid diet would willingly eat soup.
Of course, I also don’t get soy either. Or mayonnaise. Or seasoning vegetables. Why would you season vegetables? Or do anything but steam them, really? And what is up with making everything so demned full of spices and seasonings? Damn. DAMN. Let the flavour of the actual food come through!! Grr.
And boiling corn? Wtf? No. Just…no.
And GRAVY. What is up with gravy? ALSDJKGdhkjdhgasd ew. Au jus I can understand if the meat was cooked in mushrooms or something, but adding flour to the fat and pouring it over the meat? Ew.
*wanders off to have couscous*
so… what do you eat? Raw potatoes?
I like steamed broccoli and quail and couscous. And cookies. OMG. And I love salmon that’s just been grilled and drizzled with a lime cream sauce a little bit. Also beef roast with cranberry-orange-mushroom marinade is lovely. As for potatoes…that is where I get really indulgent with fat, because I like mashed potatoes that have sour cream, cream cheese, real butter and garlic in them. I have lived on those potatoes when recovering from oral surgery.
Also I love pie, carrot cake, oatmeal and cookies. And cookies. COOKIES. Nomnomnom. With milk.
Now you’ve made me dreadfully hungry.
Besides, food tastes good without seasoning, if you cook it well. Especially meat. I love meat.
Agreed. Homemade hard cider is a good marinade for chicken. And don’t get me started on sourdough bread.
/me goes off to see how the dough is rising.
Wow, you are so never invited to my house to eat my foods.
haha, except for the soy issues. I hate soy, apart from the fact I’m allergic to it.
Every time I see the word “revenge,” my mind instantly goes to The Scarlet Letter. Just another example of how education is corrupting my mind by actually forcing me to think about things.
I always think about Wrath of Kahn. Another example of how TV has corrupted my mind.
HAHAHAHAHAHA. Me toooooo.
Revenge makes me think of the Mafia. Blech. Revenge is icky.
In the spirit of Xmas - I actually make gazpacho soup for the family every Xmas lunch. It goes does down a treat because the temperature is usually hovering around 30 degrees!
Really, to me, that looks more like a bowl of gestapo soup. Very evil, very cold.
On another note, I have a recipe that will make anyone understand cold soup: it’s a summertime cantaloupe/peach soup. So good, so goooood. *goes off to try to find ripe peaches in the middle of wintertime*
Ripe peaches in the middle of winter? H’m, California prolly has those! Though we are having a bit of a cold snap. It isn’t going to get warmer than sixty today. I know that seems like nothing, but we’re ‘upposed to be hot! X3
Strangely, the Park is at capacity today, despite the weather…o_O People go to Disneyland for weird reasons, I guess.
between 50 and 60 is about the temperature where I’m the most comfortable, actually. Too many years up in the frost-bitten wastelands of the north, I guess — it’s never cold down here, and often far too hot. I miss real snow in the wintertime.
I just need humidity and proper wardrobe. I have neither, out here.
Ah, that’s sad. Humidity keeps the mucous membranes happy, though it makes me horridly un-comfy if it’s warm out. Seems like the wardrobe would be easily remedied though… no good thrift stores in the area?
This is cali, we don’t actually have clothes for cold weather, in thrift stores or department stores.
Oddly I don’t find sticky heat terrible. It’s dry heat I can’t stand. My skin hates it, my hair hates it…I don’t have the patience to saturate my skin with lotion three times a day, nor the tolerance for vicks for the cracks that show up at the edges of my nose.
That’s understandable. Vicks’s kinda gross.
It’s just that it’s so sharp a smell, really. I do henna, so I’m used to the smell of eucalyptus and such.
I guess for me it’s a texture issue… it’s just so slick and greasy. I always use lip-balm on my nose in the winter, when it gets the dry-cracky-ness.
I feel that way about lotion too. It’s greasy, eugh. The only thing I can stand is aloe sap. And that’s sticky.
And now I’ve gotten to the point in the conversation where I have to suppress the urge to make dirty jokes. So I guess it’s time for me to get back to work.
You guys have weird discussions.
I’ve never understood why people would eat cold soup. but then again, I quite happily drink cold cups of tea. I probably count as having the worst eating habits ever. in the holidays, when parents are out of the way, i sleep through breakfast, have chocolate for lunch and ice cream or peanut butter sandwiches for tea. Schooltime, I skip breakfast unless there is chocolate available, i eat whatever i can get for lunch, and then eat a good tea because mum cooks. The crazy world of Maddie’s eating habits. Whatever you do, don’t drop by for a visit. Once you arrive, you’ll never leave…
Don’t skip breakfast! And what about fruit? Fruit is tasty!
I live on clif bars when I’m not home. But it’s like pulling teeth to get me to eat at all.
I know fruit is tasty. I eat breakfast on occasion, and I eat fruit on occasion also. But it’s hardly worth trying to eat healthily.
Let’s face it, I suck at being a human being. I don’t go to sleep until some ridiculous time like 1am or midnight, I don’t eat properly, I spend hours doing school work but never getting anything done, and I worry about everything. All this, and I’m only 15! I’m anticipating being the worst, most irresponsible adult ever….wait a sec….Dude, I’m gonna be the cool aunt who all the kids love! awesome! I hope..
You must eat melanthios!
Why is it hardly worth eating healthily? I mean, if one is going to go through the trouble of eating, one may as well eat properly. Then again I was raised with a household where soda, sweets, and chips were just not around to get addicted to. Still, I find that healthy food like fruit and cheese and basically unprocessed things is much tastier and more filling.
Being nocturnal and failing at school doesn’t make you suck. People just can’t deal with those of us who are different. I’m nocturnal, and I failed at school too. Don’t fret, luv. Life, I’ve found, is much easier once school is eliminated from your world. People are much nicer in real life than in school.
Exactly! Fruit! Made into cold soup!
No! Fruit, yes. Cold soup, NO!!!!!!!! Actually, most of the time, fruit, no!!!
Why no fruit? Fruit is tasty! Except for bananas. But I eat those for teasing purposes. X3
Yum. I had the most delicious pear soup a couple summers ago. With cinnamon…
Haha, that reminds me of a silly story from my early childhood. My father was in the Air Force, so a lot of my younger years were spent traveling, and early on we ended up stationed in England, south of Liverpool. We stayed there three years, and my mother made a couple of friends in the neighborhood. Now, my mother being from the South of the USA, drinks a lot of iced tea (I know, weird, but it’s a Southern thing), and kept trying to get her English lady-friend to try some. She, of course, refused, on the principle that cold tea is just not right.
Finally Mom resorted to trickery, sure that her friend’d like it if only she just tasted it. So she just handed her a glass one day, and said “drink this!’ Which she did. Quoth Mom’s English lady-friend, with a horrified look on her face: “This tastes like cold tea!” She was so horrified, you just had to see and hear her. Oh, I laugh at the memory. Mom still talks about how peculiar it was that she didn’t like the iced tea.
The look on that lady’s face has stuck with me all these years. I can’t have been older than three or so.
But tea is one of those drinks that works at any temperature!
Hehe, Iced tea and cold tea aren’t the same thing. I just forget to drink mine when it’s hot!
But that is a cool story…tricking people into drinking things is fun
I love cold peaches,
but I wish, if it’s cold,
it had another name
other than soup.
Cobbler?
MM… Cold peach cobbler! Love it! Thanks Mel.
Be a rebel. Microwave the vichyssoise.
As for gazpacho, cut up a few extra tomatoes, onions, and bell peppers, toss ‘em in, and you’ve got salsa.
OMG
Possibly the longest thread so far, potential for political discussion, arguements, etc and it remained focussed on the major issue at hand: Food.
I love you guys!
If I am gonna eat some thing that is a cold liquid that can’t be called a drink, it has to involve raw eggs, then either fruit or mars bars. And I normally end up drinking it anyway, but alot of asain soups are drunk, so, meh.
But the raw eggs are a must.
Raw eggs? Helloooooo, salmonella.
I’ve always wondered–what is in a Mars bar? I’ve never had one. They don’t have them here in California.
I don’t do liquid food. I had to do liquid food two years ago and just…no. Living on Ensure, soy powder in chocolate malts, and gatorade turned me off of liquid food. Bleh. Jaw surgery isn’t fun.
haha, I used to drink alot of thick liquids when I had a habit and wasn’t able to eat proper foods. I don’t mind the concept, infact, I manage to convince alot of ppl to follow suit, which was good, considering how much weight you can lose when you don’t eat for a few days.
When I started training and getting fit again, I drank brekky, rather then ate it. Was easier to jog on a stomach full of liquid than one full of solids.
Salmonella(dub). Never worried me. More worried about the mozzies with Ross River Virus then a mild dose of food poisoning.
A mars bar contains a layer of something grey and soft and chewy, possibly nuggat, then some caramel on top of that, coated in a layer of chocolate. Very rich and sweet. Have a look on youtube at some of the ads for them.
Last year, when getting a few teeth out, I got my jaw broken twice, so I ate alot of liquids and mushes. That was annoying, but still, better then a drip.
Oh, and raw eggs is the only way I can enjoy eggs with out my guts giving me hell for it.
The cooked protien doesn’t go well at all.
Hello,
I’m back from my seasonal travels…
…wow, turns out the way to a commenters heart is definitely through food, even if it is poisoned and cold.
I hope you all had a good holiday.
…and thanks for looking after the place whilst I was away (The Flowfield Unity has had a massive spike in traffic whilst I was absent, which is nice to return to, and I’ve received several emails telling me how great you all are).
Right, no rest for the mildly wicked, I’m off to draw today’s strip.
Welcome back Adam!
We may see one of my friends pop up here at TFFU sometime, I directed him towards it and he’s reading through the archives, now i just need to convince him that we’re not all blood-sucking conversational monsters, and get him to join in one of our discussions
I started inking Two cats and a squidgy thing yesterday. It looks…slightly more comic-ey. My challenge for 2008 is to set up my own webpage, and make TCAAST go global. on a very minor scale. IT’d have to be a free host etc. so I can’t do anything particularly good…but it’d be nice to set one up anyway.
Hey, what’s everyone else’s challenges for ‘08?
We’re NOT all blood-sucking conversational monsters?! Oh, my, I guess I’ve been misguided.
I want to set up my own website, too. Only I’ve also decided that it’s not going to be done unless I code the whole thing from scratch, which may be a bit overly ambitious. Actually, it’s certainly overly ambitious, considering that all I know is rudimentary HTML. Because my other goal is that my website NOT look hideous, which isn’t exactly in keeping with my coding skills. But I guess we’ll all just have to see how it turns out.
Hey now, I only know rudimentary html and my website isn’t hideous. It’s all about working with what you have.
True. I probably could set up something decent with what I know. I just feel like it wouldn’t be exactly the way I wanted it. We’ll see. Watch for it on a computer near you. Sometime next year. Yes. -soaring dramatic music- -end trailer-
What’s with this challenge thing? Is it like New Year’s Resolutions?
Yeah, kinda like new years revolutions, i was just interested to see what every wanted to achieve next year.
Getting a job is high up on my list. Moving to North Carolina is second. After that I’ll be happy.
Well good luck and have fun moving and finding a job!
You realise that tommorrow, we’ll be able to say tlk to you next year, then talk the next day and still be talking the next year..
i’m such a kid, that fascinates me…:D
Ha! I do that too! Me and my friend Trick do silly things like call each other up and say ‘HAPPY TOMORROW!’ at three in the morning. Because this is the sort of people gamers are.
Hehe, sounds fun.
There’s nowt like having a laugh at something daft. hee hee, it almost rhymes..
How mildly wicked are we talking?
Oh, and welcome back!
My challenge for ‘08 is to learn caclulus and algerbra from scratch, make $75k and put a deposit on a house.
Not overly artistic or excting, but I reckon I will get creative with my study methods.
I think we’re all mildy wicked here, ey?
Nice challenges to have.
Something I’ve always wondered…what exactly IS a “k”? what measurement?
k=1000
So $75k=$75,000
Not big biccies by any standard, but nice enough for a uni student.
Oh, I am just curious as to why Adam feels mildly wicked as apposed to wicked or innocent.
It is a kinda specific level of wicked.
It’s nice enough for a uni student and sounds like a massive amount of money to a year 10 pupil.
And thanks for explaining. I am officially un-confuzzled.
It is isn’t it…Hmm, Adam will have to enlighten us as to why he is only mildly wicked.
Good luck with that. Calculus is quite fun when it’s not driving you to commit suicide. And algebra is certainly lovely until you start applying it to calculus.