Case in point: "Very Green Juice Smoothie".
I happened to be home yesterday when K came home for lunch. We each fixed ourselves something to eat. ME: a salami and cheese sandwich on sourdough bread, some barbecue potato chips, and some sweet tea. K: some of this ^ stuff and some "cranberry almond grain medley with barley, wheatberries, wild rice, and quinoa." *quin....what?*
I'm sure my dad would have said, "It looks like its already been eaten once."
She tried to hide it, but I saw her take a little bite of the stuff that's usually found in a feed bag, then take a little sip of the green stuff, then make a face like she'd just licked a car tire.
I don't think many men would put themselves through that. We're apparently less scared of dying than we are of eating cranberries with almonds, barley, wheatberries, wild rice, and quinoa.
Especially after I looked up quinoa and found this:
Quinoa (/ˈkiːnwɑː/ or /kɨˈnoʊ.ə/, Spanish: quinua, from Quechua: kinwa), a species of goosefoot (Chenopodium), is a grain crop grown primarily for its edible seeds. It is a pseudocereal rather than a true cereal, as it is not a member of the true grass family. As a chenopod, quinoa is closely related to species such as beetroots, spinach and tumbleweeds.
Goosefoot? Tumbleweeds?
So, how bad do YOU want to live?
S
EDIT: Now she's just being gross. K just left for work with her "breakfast":
Some purple stuff mixed with her green stuff to make mud colored stuff, blaspheming my Texas Tech tumbler in the process. :(
I think I'll take my chances with food that is bad for you, but taste good. Can't live forever.
ReplyDeleteSame for me Steve. Life is too short to eat from a feed bag. ;)
DeleteIf we listen to scientists, everything we eat and do is eventually going to kill us so why not enjoy life while we can. I love pepper and I'm enjoying it before they take it away from me like they did salt.
ReplyDeleteI will NOT eat stuff I don't like (and that includes carrots - blech!), but I actually like quinoa. It's a harmless little rice/pasta type dealio (but beware when cooking it yourself - it gets EVERYWHERE, just like grits - or is that just me in the kitchen?).
ReplyDeleteSometimes it comes down to fiber....
ReplyDeleteOMG, get that girl a cheeseburger. With bacon. Right now!
ReplyDeleteI like to eat healthy food (balanced with chocolate and ice cream...), but 1. It has to taste good, and 2. I want to EAT it, not drink it.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to visualize the face K had made, so I asked my husband to go in the garage and lick a tire. He was not amused.
Thanks a lot there low flyer, I have to lose 5 pounds I gained this winter. No helicopter flying for me unless I do, but no way I could eat that.
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