When 1/4" is too much

[LadyCrow]

This morning, I decided to make today one of my 3-4 times a year coffee-consumption days. So I went to a Dunkin Donuts close to work.

I purchased a large hazlenut coffee & bagel combo-thingy, & went about my merry way to the office. During the course of the morning, I consumed said combo-thingy, & noticed something peculiar about my coffee. I'd requested light & sweet, as I can't stand the taste of coffee w/out extra help.

At the bottom of the cup, there seemed to be quite a heavy concentration of sugar. Just for kicks, & because I was bored, I decided to see just how much sugar was there. Needless to say, I was quite surprised to discover a nice 1/4" layer of sugar.

Now keep in mind that I like sugar as much as the rest of the world does, but 1/4" was waaaaaaay too much for me.

Do you have any odd food stories to share?

[Klynne]

When I was in Thailand, my sister-in-law's family asked if I would like chicken for dinner. I said "sure". They scooped up a chicken and killed it in front of me. Now, I grew up on a farm, so I am accostomed to this, but it had been so long since I have been directly involved in the death of my food it was a little unnerving.

[Coffee]

Sweet coffee story.

A friend made coffee and asked if I liked sugar in mine. I said sure a little. He brings the cups and says "I forgot which one is which... try one, if it is too sweet it's probably mine, I like lots of sugar".

I take a sip of the 2nd sweetest coffee I ever had and hand it to him...the other cup had the sweetest coffee I have ever tasted. OMG, I saw him add sugar to his 3rd cup of coffee (he drank both of the first ones and I made my own first cup)...he dumpled like 7-8 spoons of sugar into his coffee. He had put 4 in mine the first time.

I'm down to about 1/2 a teaspoon in my coffee, and I ocassionally drink espresso with no sugar.

[Audreyvgs]

LC got my coffee. oops

[melissa]

Every morning I make my espresso with 2 small teaspoons of sugar and a bit of vanilla soy milk (the silk brand) and some cold water.


Whoops, this is turing into another coffee thread....

[Spicy Jack]

OMG peoples! Whats with all the gayed up coffee?

BLACK! That is the way to drink coffee.

[nycwriters]

I guess me putting Hershey's chocolate syrup in mine this morning would appaul you then.

[Spicy Jack]

[Coffee]

[LadyCrow]

Originally posted by Audreyvgs
LC got my coffee. oops

:: snaps fingers ::

Damn!



It was good coffee, though. A trifle too sweet towards the bottom of the cup, but good nonetheless.

"Best part of waking up is Coffee in your cup..."

[madasacutsnake]

MIL has an obssessive compulsive food disorder. This is what she eats, day in, day out, rain hail or shine, hell or high water. And you thought NYC ordered like Meg Ryan.

Breakfast:

2 slices wholewheat (NOT wholegrain) toast and honey

Bowl of muesli and natural yoghurt. She makes the muesli herself and it has 9 different ingredients including sunflower seeds and black (NOT any other colour) molasses

Pot of tea with a small pot of hot water and a jug of milk on the side. She drinks ALL of it, including the topped up with hot water part. (Insert story about waiting for her with our coats on and a fractious 18 month old for 1 1/4 hours while she drained the pot then got shirty because she didn't get to finish the last three mouthfuls. I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN).


Lunch


Day One: Beetroot sandwich (done in the microwave NOT pickled, all must be the same size when you buy them so that they cook evenly), wholewheat (NOT wholegrain) bread, spread with olive oil spread, not margarine or butter

Day Two (strictly alternated): Tuna (NO mayonnaise) sandwich, wholewheat (NOT wholegrain) bread, spread with olive oil spread, not margarine or butter


2 celery sticks

2 crispbread with cream cheese spread

a little bit of salt on the plate

cup of chamomile tea

cup of hot water


Dinner

NO red meat, NO tomato, NO peppers including chilli and paprika, NO curry, NO rice, NO fat (unless it is fish and chips dripping in lard, monounsaturated oils, saturated oils and free radicals - that's OK. Bloody poms). NO garden peas (she calls them "garden" peas to distinguish them from the more common processed peas, huh?) NO cheese

Boil the kettle twice

Remove mysterious half cup of cold water from the fridge. Place on table.

Make cup of chamomile tea

Boil kettle again.

Fill up hot water pot.

Place on table.

Yell at DIL if she turns of the kettle while it is boiling for the fourth time for no apparent reason.


OK. So after a few days I get sick of having her in the kitchen, carrying on about what she can and cannot eat, even when I am making something that is NOT INTENDED FOR HER. And we decide to have fish and chips.

I have NEVER in my entire life known anybody who could actually make takeaway harder than cooking a three course gourmet dinner.

Mandatory boiling of kettle twice (once we were going to a market and picking up the f and c on the way back, approximately 2 hours later. She boiled the kettle before we left because "it would take less time to boil when we got back". This from the woman whose husband in Saudi said he would put some money in the mail for her that day and who then hung up the telephone and walked out to the mailbox to check if it was there.)

Set the table with the entire contents of the cutlery drawer. Every-one must have at least two knives.

Remove every condiment from the fridge including the mango chutney, and ensure that each has it's own teaspoon. If you run out of teaspoons, put the soup ladle on the table too.

Ensure that person collecting the fish and chips takes a plastic bag to carry it in otherwise it will get cold. (It's 35C out but seeing as you are a bit touched, you haven't noticed).

Preheat the oven. There's bound to be at least 6 chips left that will need to be kept warm.

Make a couple of salads. It's takeaway, right? Labour and time conserving.

Boil some eggs. It's takeaway, right? Labour and time conserving.

Open a can of bean salad. Argue with DIL when she drains it. Return the beans to the juice. Place them on the table with the slotted spoon from the utensil drawer.

Remove mysterious half cup of cold water from the fridge. Place on table.

Make cup of chamomile tea

Boil kettle again.

Fill up hot water pot.

Place on table.

Yell at DIL if she turns of the kettle while it is boiling for the fourth time for no apparent reason.

[priceyfatprude]

Time for a Xanax for Snakey's MIL.

Black coffee + skim milk = happy peefpea

OMG peoples! Whats with all the gayed up coffee?

FAGGED up. Caramel macchiato = fagged up coffee. Foofy.

[Avalon]

Snake's MIL and my MIL should have to live together..someplace far away from both of us. There, it had to be said.

OH! and I love foofy coffee!

[madasacutsnake]

Rotten witch can taste anythng out of the ordinary in her food otherwise I would crush up the entire imprest from the old folk's home and insert it in her beetroot.

Are liqueur coffees fagged up coffees?

Faggelico?

[priceyfatprude]

Imprest = fagged up.

LOL @ Faggelico.