hongry

[fflo]

My appetite is back, cum a vengeance.

Got new windshield wipers. The back one still isn't meeting the surface of the back window. Gonna try fiddling & then maybe get professional advice there.

I don't mind Hugo Chavez saying "Go to hell, gringos!" That thing about calling Condi his "little girl" was a bit irritating. But this grab of expanded executive powers is troubling. I'm not saying it's more troubling than W's. Just that it's troubling.

What else goes on. Pfizer to lay off 10,000, closing 3 sites in Michigan. Antidepressants linked to increased fracture risk. Leftover chicken chipotle refrieds in Lisa's fridge. (Hongry.)

Of all the foods never served in the home of my nuclear family of origin, refried beans must be right up there on the list of comestibles most often consumed by me since. You got any of those? Something you eat often that was unheard of in your childhood consumption? Others of mine include asparagus, tortillas, and garlic. Though I guess I don't eat a whole lotta garlic. And tofu and soy milk and stuff like that, of course.

Back to work. (It's a long work day.)

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Oh, NOW you're troubled.

[(Anonymous)]

George Bush has yet to close down one opposition newspaper. Chavez, otoh, has been closing down the opposition press for months. Only now you find yourself troubled?

The guy will end up declaring himself President For Life and will be there long after Bush has left office, as we conservatives predicted.

[paperkingdoms]

Tortillas. Actually, properly seasoned Mexican anything. I discovered that I *liked* taco meat when it's not made with Heinz Barbecue sauce [I've never found a barbecue sauce that I've really liked].

A big part of my issues with my childhood consumption, though, were kind of cyclic... we were all various sorts of picky, so Mom tended toward plainer food... which [I've since discovered] is less tasty, and thus tended to make me, at least, more picky. [She also just generally tended towards plain food... I'm slowly teaching her about the wonders of spices.]

[Mmm. garlic.]

[disclaimerwill.livejournal.com]

On a road trip a couple years back, my friend Jess and I discovered that, because neither of us was allowed Lucky Charms as a kid, we each gobble as many Lucky Charms as we can at every opportunity.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

sour cream and yogurt, my mom didn't like them but I like both. Ditto Broccoli and asparagus. Come to think of it, we ate veggies out of a can, which I never do now.

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

I'd say it's tacos--inauthentic unhealthy ones, I must specify--that would top my list of food unheard of in my childhood home.

everything?

[shmizla.livejournal.com]

virtually everything i eat now was never eaten at my house, courtesy of various injuns with whom i live and who cook things my parents couldn't imagine digesting.

at the same time, we do occasionally eat roasted chicken and potatoes (my favorite), and then some other, 'plain' things. i think 'plain' is not much in demand in this house, although i do like it once in a while. it's not plain in my book, and we eat it when the european contingent is in ascendance.

[atleastdefiant.livejournal.com]

The only thing I eat a lot that I didn't as a kid is fast food and restaurant food, things we never ate because we didn't have the money to waste when we could just eat when we got home.
I have way more foods that I enjoyed as a kid that I never get anymore cause I either can't make it like mom, or I just don't feel like going through the trouble: indian rice (rice cooked in milk, topped with shallots, peanuts, coconut, pineapple, and anything else in the house), bbq goat meat, meatloaf.
The one thing I do get now that I didn't as a kid is real ice cream.
We had ice milk, which doesn't deserve to have "cream" in its name.