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This education really isn't very demanding.

You know those things called supermarkets? When you go into them, just shop around the outside, don't go down the Aisles.

There, are you happy now, frinG?

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You clearly are divorced from reality. Your supermarket appears to be in some kind of fancy resort with islands and stuff. Must be nice to be soooo rich!

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I agree, but there's only a limited amount one can do other than inform people "if you're going to put it in your body maybe you make a minimal effort to find out what is in it," and leave it to them to take responsibility to do that or not. I have a lot of sympathy for people buying some of the faux-healthy sounding processed shit out there ("low fat" type stuff, Boston market, etc.), but very little for people drinking soda all the time being shocked - SHOCKED! - that it isn't healthy.

Though I thought that's what Home Econ. in HS was for - that sort of remedial "basic common sense life training" that the state, apparently rightly, can't trust your parents to give you. I recall being told point blank: if you make it at home, it will be cheaper, will have fewer calories, won't contain garbage you can't pronounce, and may well taste better even if you can't cook to save your life."

BR(the Mr. made his own steak sauce a while ago, which involved HUGE amounts of liquor and butter but which was still probably better for us than any store-bough marinade we've had. It is shocking to realize that deep-frying corn-dogs at home is usually better for you than eating mahi-mahi out, nevermind Burger King)C

Congrats Str8!
 

Thanks for remembering. It went amazingly well; the whole weekend was great, and I'm taking three days off this week to unpack and shit. When we get pictures or something I'll send anyone a link who wants to see. They even str8ened out the Tomato Basil soup, making it much more subtle.

Back to honeymooning.

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You scoff. And G3 was just trying to do the Wight thing.

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Are those homemade corn dogs or store-bought? The Home Econ comment reminded me of an incident with a friend's (well, acquaintance's) father when I was in college -- I was giving this putz (acquaintance) a ride home from school for some break (he was an Andover man who was not then smart enough to use his connections to get into an Ivy League School) and when we got to his house, I went inside, met parents, got drink, etc. before heading back on road to visit a friend for the break. His dad asked me what my major was and I said "Economics" and he looked at me kind of funny then said "So what do you plan to do with a Home Economics degree?"

Maybe you had to be there. I was dumbfounded, mainly because I couldn't even sew one of those freaking pillows in 6th grade home ec.

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I only speak for 1 red state, but we'll agree to let California go, or at least the Cali coasts, and maybe Oregon and Washington. We won't let NY go though. Oh, our first act as a 49 state country- greatly relax copyright protection for software and motion pictures.

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Sadly, there's a reason they qualified that with "may well." When I think of all the nice healthy base ingredients I've inadvertently slaughtered with culinary ineptitude, I feel terrible. But I do make a wonderful packaged-n-processed wild rice side dish--surely that wouldn't hurt anybody, would it?

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Nice. Was he surprised you were able to learn to get your driver's license as well? Or did he have no grounds to stand on there, what with the chauffeur negating his ever needing to figure that out himself either?

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In my home ec class, we learned valuable nutrition lessons like how to make cookies out of cake mix. Healthy.

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We had a choice and I took wood shop and made a nice lamp base. I am sadly lacking in a formal home ec education.

Movie food
 

Seriously, though, you'd be surprised how intimidating a raw vegetable can be to someone not prepared or equipt to deal with it. And it can be really hard to justify taking 1 1/2 hours to make a proper dinner for one's family when one's alternatives include (i) making reservations, (ii) Chinese takeout/pizza, (iii) frozen dinners ("Healthy Choice!"), (iv) McDonalds.

Randomly along the same lines, went to the movies this weekend (School of Rock - recommended, the audience applauded spontaneously 3 times during the movie, which was great for no discernable reason) and noticed people stocking up on HUGE amounts of the crap junk food they sell. Somehow, this never registered before. I always assumed that movie food was so overpriced that you only resorted to buying it when (i) your movie was about to start and (ii) due to scheduling snafus, you would starve/dehydrate to death if you didn't eat/drink by the time the movie let out, but surely no one in their right mind wasted their money on more of the stuff than absolutely necessary to keep body and soul together long enough to enjoy the movie. I mean, yeah, I'll pay 5x too much for a pack of twizzlers sometimes, occasionally get a drink if the Mr. will split it with me, but I always wondered who got the hotdogs and nachos and a separate 96 oz soda for every person in the group. Other people, apparently. I mean, FUCK, if you're going to spend $30 on shit-food for you and your date (or shitloads more when you are taking out a passel of kids), just go out to dinner first and then spend the movie holding hands. I mean, WTF???

Any commentary?

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Whoa, high school? People had home ec in high school?? I had it in jr. high. One semester home ec, one semester "industrial arts." Industrial arts included both wood shop and drafting. I loved the drafting. Hated the wood part. But both of them were better than sewing or cooking in home ec -- sewing just sucked and while I liked cooking, I didn't like the group approach.

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At least you've made something tangible. I took a drafting class instead and learned how to use a T-square.

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It is quite obvious to me now that my school system sucked. I had to do shop AND drafting AND cooking AND sewing. So fucking unfair.