Re: Barbara

On 14.01.2024 16.02, Merlyne wrote:

>>> I can eat pancakes whenever I want.
>>> Try and stop me.
>> Barbarism!
>>
> 
> Yelling isn't going to make me stop.
I'm not yelling. I'm not a great fan of yelly...

>>> What if someone works the night shift and their breakfast is at the
>>> same time as other people's dinner? Pancakes cover all the bases.
>> Breakfast is the first meal after sleeping no matter how someone's 24
>> hour cycle is organised. That's when you want some high carbohydrate
>> foodstuff to get the motor running, so to speak. Dinner is when the
>> high protein food should be ingested to regenerate muscles while
>> resting after a day of toil.
>>
> 
> If I have chicken and waffles for dinner, the chicken part is protein.
Yes. And the waffles are incongruent.

>>>>> Anyways,I don't think there are rules about what you have to eat.
>>>> There are loads of rules. Just ask your doctor. Also for example
>>>> there are rules for the sequence of what you eat if it's a multi
>>>> course meal. Dinner is soup - fish - poultry - steak - dessert -
>>>> cheese or how many of those you wish to include.
>>>>
>>> Or waffles and chicken.
>>> What does the order of food matter?
>> Tradition! It's how it has always been done.
>>
> then it's time for a change.
Do you know what change leads to? Communism, that's what. And total
collapse of society. Cats and dogs living together, people marrying
box-turtles and women wanting to vote...
Is that what you want!?

>>>>> Part the benefit of being an adult is you can eat what you want
>>>>> when you want. On the downside, it seems unwise to eat 2000
>>>>> calories and then go to bed.
>>>> Clearly. One will obviously need a cigar and a couple of glasses of
>>>> port after. And then maybe something a little stronger for a
>>>> nightcap. 
>>>>
>>> I can hear your arteries closing from here.
>> I doubt that. The sound will be drowned out by the teevee...
>>
> Does the tv need to be so loud?
I can't hear it over the sound of my arteries closing otherwise...

>>>>>>>>> It's also not hot inside in the air conditioned comfort.
>>>>>>>> So I'll have to bring a sweater as well? Maybe a cardigan in
>>>>>>>> festive colours.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The kind with leather elbow patches so you look scholarly.
>>>>>> Obviously. And if at all possible also cast metal buttons with
>>>>>> floral patterns. Pewter maybe.
>>>>>>
>>>>> I have a sweater with those. We could repurpose them.
>>>> You would give up your pewter sweater buttons for me? I'm touched.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Stop touching yourself.
>> I wasn't. It was metaphorical touching. By your kindness and
>> sacrifice. 
>>
> You're lucky I'm such a nice person.
Truly blessed, indeed. Did you mail the buttons?

>>> Can't you buy ice cream at the grocery store there?
>> Yes, but I think that's just left-over stock from summer. The Ice
>> cream stalls with the freshly baked waffle cones and the extensive
>> selection of ice cream flavours for scooping close for winter, I'm
>> pretty sure. It might have changed nowadays what with all the foreign
>> tourists and their strange dietary habits.
>>
> You need to be more open-minded about food.

I'll have you know I'm very open-minded about food. I once ate a
plateful of calamari.

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BeH

"No nation can be free if it opresses other nations"   - F. Engels