Blogcritics: Comments on Happy food

Comment by CW Fisher

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 21:35:02 EDT

Why, this is no thread anymore! Why, it's a.. it's a MUSICAL! Hey, everybody! Let's dance and sing and jump all over the tables!

Food, glorious food -- we're anxious to try it. Nude, totally nude, no blogger denies it. Just picture a great big snake (or a clam)-- Fried, roasted or stewed. Oh, food, Wonderful food, Hopefully not chewed, Glorious food.

Thanks to little N. Davis of Blog City, ST

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:24:38 EDT

just don't mix them up, Ms Tek

Comment by Ms. Tek

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:17:15 EDT

Hmmm I wouldn't mind breeding puppies and draft horses and brewing beer. *sigh*

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:57:49 EDT

the beer you eat with a fork

Comment by Kurt Nordstrom

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:45:58 EDT

Unless it's a "Lite Beer", pimpin' from the low-carb angle. Whoinheck wants low carb beer? Somebody pour me a Guinness.

Comment by Ms. Tek

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:32:51 EDT

Beer. Now there is happy "food".

Comment by Dwaine AKA Scooter AKA D.J.

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:25:08 EDT

Balls, Balls, They always fall. Fuck a happy food, I'm not in a happy mood. I can't say "boob", I might get sued. Me balls ran away, Oh well. I wasn't jackin' anyway.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:24:05 EDT

combine this post with the Barking Dogs post and you have Vietnamese lunch (ba-dump-da)

Comment by Natalie Davis

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:18:56 EDT

"Oliver!", of course, which posed the musical question, "Is it worth the waiting for? / If we live 'til eighty four / All we ever get is gru...el?" "Food, glorious food -- we're anxious to try it. Three banquets a day, our favorite diet. Just picture a great big steak -- Fried, roasted or stewed. Oh, food, Wonderful food, Marvelous food, Glorous food." Damn, I'm hungry. And not for gruel.

Comment by CW Fisher

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:58:45 EDT

Please, sir, may I have more gruel... I'll give 50% off my next post to the first person who can cite that reference... AND write the lyric to what follows. Fifty percent. (low whistle)

Comment by Eric Olsen

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 07:29:49 EDT

if you are really hungry, most food is happy food

Comment by Natalie Davis

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 03:43:32 EDT

An omelette -- now there is a happy food. (Sigh)

Comment by boomcrashbaby

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 01:20:30 EDT

there is no real food in restaurants anymore. Yeah, there is. In restaurants where there is a chef instead of a cook. They are more expensive, so you might not be able to eat out as often, but when you do, there are good places to choose from. One thing I thought of while reading this thread, in regards to my own 'happy food', is the atmosphere. There's several different elements that can go into making a really good meal. Fine dining by a fireplace while being pampered by waiters can really enhance a plate full of escargot.

Comment by CW Fisher

Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:33:35 EDT

I'm with ya, boomcb, but here's the thing: there is no real food in restaurants anymore. I'm sure of it. Mashed potatoes, phwa. Nobody's going to peel whole potatoes anymore! Way too expensive. Scrambled eggs? No such thing in most restaurants. It's "egg mixture" in a boil bag. Five pounds of "eggs" in about 40 minutes. There are thousands of other examples, but I can't thing of any more. I don't think they can fake an omelette. Now THERE's a happy food. A well-made Denver. Like they made it at the cab stand at O'Hare, with green olives!

Comment by boomcrashbaby

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 21:07:22 EDT

There's nothing wrong with the chicken (beyond being fried, which is unfortunately when it's the best). If someone in elementary school was traumatized, it was probably just cuz he was so young and saw raw chicken being cut up. The mashed potatoes I was referring to, was just in one store, I'm sure. But it made me unable to eat dehydrated potatoes to this day. Just because I'm now aware of something I didn't really think of before. Basically, the vat of boiling water (boils all the time the store is open, refilled when needed) became oxidized. I mean those vats boil every day for years. Iron flakes or nickel, etc. in the water. I'm sure it's not across the entire chain, to be fair, and it wouldn't be limited to KFC either. But I just skip mashed potatoes unless I know I'm at a restaurant that makes it from scratch.

Comment by CW Fisher

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:25:51 EDT

Not so close to dinner anyway.

Comment by Eric Olsen

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:21:31 EDT

pizaa cannot be adequately discussed in such an offhand manner

Comment by Kurt Nordstrom

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:04:20 EDT

Heheh, friend of mine went on a field trip to KFC like, in elementary school and couldn't eat fried chicken for years afterwards, based on what he saw. I'm really lazy about my fried chicken personally. I like chicken strips, cuz bones are a pain. As for pizza, we all know that best pizza in the UNIVERSE is NYC pizza, but if you have to order corporate pizza, go with Papa John's. They'll do ya okay.

Comment by Tom Johnson

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:52:18 EDT

You've piqued my interest, Boomcrashbaby. I will probably regret asking this, but . . . what's the deal with the potato products (and are we talking mashed potatoes or fries, or both?)

Comment by boomcrashbaby

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:42:39 EDT

Tom, I used to work for KFC years ago. Stay away from the potatoes.

Comment by Tom Johnson

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:33:22 EDT

Pizza Hut is not happy food. It's fried pizza, that's what it is. Look at it - taste it - they must baste their pizza in generous amounts of grease and then bake it to the point where the grease boils, effectively "frying" the pizza. I feel WAY nasty after eating Pizza Hut. That said, like KFC, there's a strange period every year, usually only once, that I absolutely HAVE TO have Pizza Hut (and, alternately, KFC.) I apply the rule the father character Mike Myers played in So I Married An Axe Murderer - "he (the Colonel) puts an addictive chemical in his chicken that makes ya crave it fortnightly." I couldn't handle it "fortnightly," once a year is good enough for me. Happy food? Chocolate chip cookies, hands down - especially fresh-baked ones.

Comment by CW Fisher

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 16:25:37 EDT

Aw, Natalie, chai-ness is no excuse. Get out there and slug down a nice fat whopper like the rest of us slugs. You can do it! Heck, my mother-in-law, after she died, oh. Sorry. Anyway, we found all these pieces of cake wrapped in aluminum foil (which you can't see through), and placed in odd, noncakelike containers: a coffee can, a sandwich box, Tupperware for pizza slices. It all in varying stages of decay, some merely stale, others deydrated to bricks. Good though.

Comment by Natalie Davis

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 12:43:08 EDT

I have never been obese a day in my life. I work hard to keep from being overweight, so potato chips are something I do rarely. (Hence, I am rarely happy.) Chai lattes aren't sweet if you don't put sugar into them. I make mine myself -- tea, spices, skim milk, baby.

Comment by Bob A. Booey

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 02:15:41 EDT

Diabetes is all about managing obesity. Potato chips are horrible nutritionally: they're the worst possible combination of sodium, fat, and starch (which by the way, turns right into glucose). Chai lattes are all sugar as well, as are most Starbucks products. RJ: Tell your boyfriend you're skipping the nightcap after dinner next time. Say you have a headache or something :) Anyone ever get pizza hangover in college? It's a whole different thing than an alcohol hangover. And it doesn't involve the runs. You wake up in the morning with your stomach feeling funny and thirsty as hell after eating that large pizza. That is all.

Comment by Natalie Davis

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:29:25 EDT

Gross. And I'm talking about Pizza Hut. Another happy ingestible: the chai latte. Mmmmmm, creamy, dreamy good.