I’d say last night was the dumbest idea I’ve had in a long time, except it wasn’t my idea.
Let me talk about the events leading up to this near-disaster first.
Continue reading “DNF.”Tag: food
Theoretical binge eating.
Yesterday, a hypothetical question circulated at work.
“What is the largest food item you could eat 600 of?”
It wasn’t even me who came up with the question. My answer was among the most conservative:
“Blueberries. Preferably freeze-dried.”
Of course, I questioned the amount chosen. 600? Daniel explained that it was because 600 was a lot of anything. Grains of rice? That’s still a fair amount of rice.
The others were overly confident in their ability to eat massive amounts of:
Continue reading “Theoretical binge eating.”Title of my autobiography: “But why?”
When I finally write this autobiography, people will invariably ask, “But why?” And I’d be like, “Exactly.”
So, when a friend confessed that soup was one of his favourite things, I wanted to ask, “But why?” My friend isn’t a senior citizen, nor are his teeth plastic like mine. What kind of Millennial chooses soup as their favourite food?
My favourite food used to be sushi, but since visiting Japan in 2014, I’ve been disgusted by the quality of most of the sushi found here: the rice is often poorly prepared, and restaurants tend to go overboard with the specialty rolls. 2016’s trip to Mexico, thankfully, did not ruin burritos for me, so as long as I’m not in Japan, vegetarian burritos are my ichiban (that’s Japanese for number one).
Now that I’ve got an acrylic sheath over my front teeth, preventing me from biting into food, burritos are no-go. My soup enthusiast friend saw this as the opportunity to defend his favourite meal and loaned me a cookbook containing 65 soup recipes. Along with this book, I also lugged a 10kg tome of assorted recipes to be served on a plate home.
I was ready to give one of the soup recipes a try until I came across this on Reddit. It’s a rice bear sleeping in a beautiful garden of broth:
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