Re: Barbara

BeH <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]: 

> 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...

Did you say jelly?

> 
>>>> 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.
> 
Don't knock 'til you tried it...

>>>>>> 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!?
> 
[X] Yes

>>>>>> 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?
> 

Not yet. I should do that soon since I heard postage rates are going up 
because nobody mails anything anymore.

>>>> 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.
> 

Yuck!