Poor single people eat weird things

[Belial]

crunched-up saltines with milk and sugar poured over it

Wait, WHAT?!

[The Sleeping Tyrant]

I used to make, and eat, spaghetti and mayo sandwiches. Plain, cold spaghetti with mayo. Not even good mayo either.

I have no idea what I was thinking; I lived at home and there was undoubtedly better stuff to eat somewhere.

[Girl™]

crunched-up saltines with milk and sugar poured over it

Wait, WHAT?!

I DON'T EVEN KNOW! Every time he did that, I was like, "What the hell, dad, we have real food. With nutrition and everything!" But that only resulted in Boomhower-style mumbling.

[Phenriz]

crunched-up saltines with milk and sugar poured over it

Wait, WHAT?!

I DON'T EVEN KNOW! Every time he did that, I was like, "What the hell, dad, we have real food. With nutrition and everything!" But that only resulted in Boomhower-style mumbling.

my father did/does the same thing.

i still can't figure out why.

[Belial]

crunched-up saltines with milk and sugar poured over it

Wait, WHAT?!

I DON'T EVEN KNOW! Every time he did that, I was like, "What the hell, dad, we have real food. With nutrition and everything!" But that only resulted in Boomhower-style mumbling.

Doesn't *everything* result in Boomhower-style mumbling, with your dad?

[Mighty Jalapeno]

crunched-up saltines with milk and sugar poured over it

Wait, WHAT?!

I DON'T EVEN KNOW! Every time he did that, I was like, "What the hell, dad, we have real food. With nutrition and everything!" But that only resulted in Boomhower-style mumbling.

my father did/does the same thing.

i still can't figure out why.

Could you hear him getting fatter?

[kcr]

Tuna Salad and Cole Slaw are vile abominations, mockeries of food.

So true. I'll add potato and macaroni salads to that.

I always feel like I should love potato and macaroni salad because I love all the stuff in them. But whenever I eat it, it's at best "meh."

Big points for the nutella and peanut butter sandwich. So good.

The weirdest thing I used to eat was when I was little, and I'd always do it when my family went to this local diner... I always got a grilled cheese sandwich. Took the cheese that melted out of the sides of the bread and wrapped it around a fry, then dipped one end in ketchup and one end in maple syrup.
Healthy? Hell no.
Delicious? Absolutely.

[Mighty Jalapeno]

My favorite beverage when no-one was looking.... Sprite, orange juice, and Cool Whip. It was sparkly, creamy, and tasted like an orange.

[Phenriz]

Could you hear him getting fatter?

Yes i can, in fact i can hear him getting fatter two thousand miles away, like giant sloshing footsteps. Which only the whippoorwills seem to drown out, in a maddening cacophony.

[Fantastic Idea]

Look, just because I'm super-virile doesn't mean I go around impregnating EVERYONE who feels the same way I do about macaroni salad....

Well, you never know... you can impregnate the same woman three times, despite the fact that you're not supposed to be able to... you might be able to spontaneously knock me up through the internets, even despite my IUD.

Wow, you actually remember stuff about me? You're good... and, yes, it has happened before. Anna Nicole's baby?

Mine.

I'm good at remembering stuff I've read, whether I mean to or not. Stuff like accidental pregnancies... that's just scary to me so I make note of it.


To return to the actual thread content though... I think I'm going to have to make potato salad tonight. Because I just might have all the ingredients in my house, and I'm poor and single and can't afford to make actual meals.

[MFHodge]

My favorite beverage when no-one was looking.... Sprite, orange juice, and Cool Whip. It was sparkly, creamy, and tasted like an orange.

That actually sounds pretty great!

[Sprocket]

Free JP Licks in Davis^2 for the Boston(ish) resident who posts the best essay.

[Mighty Jalapeno]

Free JP Licks for the Boston(ish) resident who posts the best essay.

The.... fuck?

[SecondTalon]

I'm assuming that makes sense in Boston.

[Sprocket]

That's a terrible essay.

I figured y'all er posting about being poor and eatting crazy things, so I'll take someone out for ice cream at JP Licks.

[SecondTalon]

It's also, roughly, 980 miles from where I am to where you are. For the gas alone, I could go get icecream at Graeters ... a lot of times. At least 20.

[Sprocket]

Tuna Salad and Cole Slaw are vile abominations, mockeries of food.

Tuna Salad (as in that stuff one puts on smamiches) is one of the greatest foods on EARTH! I just call it tuna fish, though. If I'm eatting sushi or a tuna steak, then it's just tuna. Bumble Bee mixed with helman's and chopped cellery on rye bread with tomato and extra sharp cheddar, and I'M IN HEAVEN! (Tuna fish was my first word.)

[SecondTalon]

When I hear Tuna Fish, I think that.

[Sprocket]

That doesn't even look like a tuna fish...

[Girl™]

crunched-up saltines with milk and sugar poured over it

Wait, WHAT?!

I DON'T EVEN KNOW! Every time he did that, I was like, "What the hell, dad, we have real food. With nutrition and everything!" But that only resulted in Boomhower-style mumbling.

Doesn't *everything* result in Boomhower-style mumbling, with your dad?

Pretty much.

Where are you from, Phenriz? Maybe it's a southern thing? O_o

[elminster]

I saw someone had shreddies (A pure wheat breakfast in the uk) with just water, because he didnt have any milk. Ive heard of bland taste, but wheat and water must be near the top.

ps. I do tuna salad like: Tuna+Mayo+sweetcorn/cucumber/tomato (1 or more of them)
Potato salad is awesome, those who dont like it are very close relatives of satan (And they smell... bad).

A food poisoning case put me off cooked beef, im fine now, but the smell gets to me slightly.

[Phenriz]

Pretty much.

Where are you from, Phenriz? Maybe it's a southern thing? O_o

Houston, currently.

[Belial]

Then maybe it's just a texas thing

[wing]

When I was still living with KinkyChick(TM), who also happened to be the closing shift manager at a grocery store (In other words, she was in charge of the hopeless adults and the useless high school kids, because she was actually attending a university. She didn't actually make any more than a non-manager would have), we NEVER had food in the fridge. The bridge was reserved for beer. We never had food in the freezer, either. The freezer was reserved for mugs and shot glasses.

She just brought home whatever they were throwing out at the store because it was within 3 days of expiration. Except the meats, since they put out fresh meat daily, so they threw out the ENTIRE meat case at the end of day in her store. So we NEVER had any shortage of meat. My personal favorite dish had to be this chili, which was made of... Well, the entire surviving contents of the meat case.

Ground beef, bacon, sausage, steak, etc. Add in some peppers that had been sitting in produce for a few days, and some near-expiration beans, and ohmigawd.

[Fantastic Idea]

Free JP Licks in Davis^2 for the Boston(ish) resident who posts the best essay.

I'm not sure I can churn out an essay...

But being poor and single definitely affects my life and my roommate's lives... Because it used to be me and my boyfriend living with a third roommate, and then we broke up, so we're just three roommates.
This comes into context when I say that since we broke up, I almost entirely stopped cooking. My kitchen doesn't contain anything that I particularly want to cook lately, and I barely shop for groceries, and I travel every weekend. I have barely set foot in my kitchen in months.
This has had dangerous consequences, because my roommates and I are all at the same 'cleanliness threshold' for the most part, so the fact that I haven't cleaned the fridge yet means THEY haven't either.

Y'know how people divide stuff up when they break up? We didn't really do that. And we shared leftovers.
I cleaned out the fridge yesterday.

I found leftover casserole from Thanksgiving growing a lovely green-white forest of mold in some small piece of tupperware in the back.

There comes a time when you have to say to yourself, "I didn't really like that tupperware anyway."

I also found a jar of pesto sauce that had been unopened in the freezer when we moved in. Last September. The third roommate forbid me from getting rid of it, because she still eats it.

Yep.

[lone_psychonaut]

When I hear Tuna Fish, I think that.

When I think of anything, I create a "YTMND" page for it in my head. That way, if I ever want to, I can view the universe as if it's just a series of interconnected YTMND pages.

And sometimes my inner-voice sounds like Master Shake.

[UmbrageOfSnow]

You know those Italian breadcrumbs you can buy in like a blue cylindrical cardboard can? About a cup of those in canned tomato soup, basically doubled the volume and used something I had no more use for since I wasn't going to be cooking for anyone for a while. I've never had soup that grainy before, but it wasn't bad.

[Sprocket]

When I hear Tuna Fish, I think that.

When I think of anything, I create a "YTMND" page for it in my head. That way, if I ever want to, I can view the universe as if it's just a series of interconnected YTMND pages.

And sometimes my inner-voice sounds like Master Shake.

Hmm...you may be better off with Frylock.

[justbecause]

When I ran out of money while I was away at University...
Watchyagat Stew (What's in it? Whatcha got?)
I found out that you can get more for your money if you find the clearance bins at the grocery store.
I found out that you can still pretend that you aren't starving if you get 70¢ of fresh veggies.
And then I lived on biscuits (um, not British biscuits... flour+shortning+water and bake it).

When I actually got a loan and could buy food again, one of the first things I bought was a (marked-down demo model) rice cooker. Man, that would have made life worth living when I had no money.

So, all you young 'uns heading off to college - my advice to you is to a)not run out of money, or (at least) b) buy a rice cooker & a huge bag of rice before you run out of money.

[PatrickRsGhost]

Another tip for you young 'uns...buy a slow cooker. There's a lot you can cook in those things, not just soups and stews. You can buy cheaper cuts of meat than what most people buy, and turn out 3- and 4-star dinners. You can buy a big five-quart, make it up the first day, and reheat it everyday, on the Low or Keep Warm settings. You can set it up in the morning (or whenever you go to class), leave it on while you're in class, and then come home to a nice hot meal.

[SecondTalon]

When I hear Tuna Fish, I think that.

When I think of anything, I create a "YTMND" page for it in my head. That way, if I ever want to, I can view the universe as if it's just a series of interconnected YTMND pages.

And sometimes my inner-voice sounds like Master Shake.

Mine's Carl.

[PictureSarah]

Tuna Salad, Potato Salad = Awesome. (I also have one of the greatest Potato Salad recipes EVER. That could be why.)

Cole Slaw, Macaroni Salad = Abominations.

I tried cole slaw once. I threw up. I have never tried it again.

Tuna salad= acceptable if there's nothing else in the house, and must contain sweet pickle relish.

Cole slaw, macaroni salad and potato salad= abominations.

Mayonnaise applied to anything except devilled eggs or the occasional tuna salad= unacceptable.

[Aglet]

My favorite beverage when no-one was looking.... Sprite, orange juice, and Cool Whip. It was sparkly, creamy, and tasted like an orange.

I would leave out the Cool Whip if I was to try it myself. I dunno if the texture would go well with the liquids.

And that'd better be pulpless orange juice.

[Bakemaster]

Tuna salad is godly. And very much worth the risk. The key is to use just enough mayo to get the right consistency, preferably horseradish mayo (can be made by putting horseradish—drumroll, please—in your mayo), and then add whatever else you like. For me that means chopped pickle, red onion, celery and sometimes red bell pepper. Never egg (blech).

I don't particularly like potato salad and I can't stand egg salad, but tuna... oh man. Godly godly doggy groggy win.

Also re: cole slaw, I used to hate it too, until I had the slaw at Redbones, which is like... actual vegetables. Not just shredded cabbage and carrots in some kind of vomitously sweet mystery sauce.

The only food that trips my gag reflex is garbanzo beans. I love hummus and falafel, but show me a chick pea salad and I'll show you the inside of my stomach.

[xooll]

I got bored at work (where I have unlimited soda-fountain access) and concocted the following drink:
8 oz. Sprite
4 oz. Coke
2 oz. pink lemonade
1/2 oz. vinegar

it's actually quite good.

[Earlz]

Mayo on fries!? you people are weird...I can't stand ketchup on anything though(but love bbq sauce)

I'm really not poor, but I have to make do with thihngs in the cafeteria at school...
there french fries are usually very dry and tasteless
first solution: Put lots of salt and pepper on them
second, winning solution: Dip them in ranch, yes, RANCH! (not mayo!)
Same solution for dry meat-substitute burgers..


for any meat(steak like) that is horrible tasting, just drown it in lemon-pepper and/or A1

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also, cheese and rice along are really good

umm...hmmm,...I'm not poor, so I don't have many interesting things..

[lesliesage]

Mayo on fries!? you people are weird...I can't stand ketchup on anything though(but love bbq sauce)

I love mayo on fries. I love mayo, mustard, and ketchup on fries... at the same time. Same for burgers.

I just ate pasta with mayo at 2am and it was the first time I cooked in days.
How far I have fallen.

[ishikiri]

something I invented back when I had packed lunches in middle school:

A sandwich of white bread, ham (cheap 'n' crappy remoulded variety is best) kit-kats and walkers salt and vinegar crisps.

TIP: make the top and bottom layer out of ham to hold everything in place.

Criky its been a while since i last had one. I wonder what it would be like with a yoghurt thrown over the top? I think i know what i'll be having for Linner when i get up tomorrow.

[Bakemaster]

Okay, this is a bit off topic, but did anyone else have that McDonald's fry maker that you'd crank some white bread through and then cover with sugar and cinnamon? It just came to mind, and I miss it. Way more than I miss eating at McDonald's.

[arcticfox.sq]

Mayo on fries!? you people are weird...I can't stand ketchup on anything though(but love bbq sauce)

I love mayo on fries. I love mayo, mustard, and ketchup on fries... at the same time.

Soft ice cream on fries. Or poutine (it's liek, the only Canadian food -- wait, are beaver tails Canadian?)

When cooking for myself, the only thing I can make successfully on a regular basis is omlette. I have one of those magic bullet things and I just crack the eggs in, dump in anything I can think of (like shrimp, peppers, onions, garlic, spicy sauce stuff, tomato, spam, and some cheese for good measure), then blend and cook. It turns out amazingly good every time no matter what's in it.