I HATE MY LIFE....

[LynneSin]

...but only because I'm sitting here at work fantasizing about skinny-dipping in a great vat of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

Why must junk food taste so damn good and vegetables taste like crap

:cry:

[VelmaD]

1. Awwww honey...

I know just how you feel. Although today it isn't cookie dough I'm daydreaming about. :hug:

[Ediacara]

2. Well....

Chocalate Chips are made mostly of vegetables. There's WHEAT flour, and CANE sugar, and don't forget the COCOA BEANS in the chips. It's just that pesky stick of butter and eggs that sour the deal....

[Whitacre D_WI]

3. Same here.

Except replace "cookie dough" with "Maker's Mark."

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

16. Except replace "cookie dough" with "Salma Hayek"

Nuff said

[Whitacre D_WI]

18. Except replace "cookie dough" with "Salma Hayek...

...floating in a pool of bourbon!"

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

21. MMMMM, Salma Hayek swimming in bourbon....

I need to speed dial my girlfriend RIGHT NOW!!

[Whitacre D_WI]

23. Your girlfriend has some bourbon?

Damn, you're a lucky man!

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

29. No, I've got the Maker's

She got... well... you know what she's got. :evilgrin:

[Whitacre D_WI]

30. I assure you, sir, I do not.

I don't know what sort of stories you've been hearing about me; but I am quite certain I've never known your girlfriend.

She has much higher standards than me!

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

35. Seriously - have you ever SEEN Whitacre?

[Whitacre D_WI]

36. Ghost Dog!

[NicoleM]

4. Vegetables don't taste like crap

if you cook them in enough fat. :)

[Crunchy Frog]

27. And put LOTS of butter on them.

:9

[boobooday]

5. Jello is less fattening

And more fun to swim in!

My weakness is salty stuff -- specifically, bbq potato chips.

http://www.wgoeshome.com

[Fenris]

6. Because, as Madeleine L'Engle says

"God is a shit."

How else could you explain it? Only a total prick would make vegetables bland and the shit that can kill you delicious.

If there was a just and loving God, asparagus would taste like chocolate.

[HEyHEY]

7. You haven't dipped your vegis in the proper amount of bad for you stuff

[Angelus]

8. I've always wondered the same thing myself.

I really hate vegetables because of their lack of taste. The only way to make them taste better is to soak them in butter/salt. :(

Today...I'm fantasizing about skinny-dipping, but not in chocolate chip cookie dough...I'm fantasizing I'm skinny-dipping with Charisma Carpenter. :evilgrin:

One can dream, can't he?

[jpgray]

9. You have to get rid of all the junk food--go cold turkey

Because I at least would have an emotional attachment that was pretty hard to shake, even if I was partaking only in moderation. I would medicate myself with junk food--because damn if you don't feel pretty good for five minutes eating twenty or so fresh baked chocolate chip cookies. :D

But you know, after eliminating junk entirely, I really don't miss it.

[ZenLefty]

10. I just so happen to have a vat of choc chip cookie dough

Made fresh this morning - yum!! Feel free to come over anytime. :D

[Bonhomme Richard]

11. Funny, I'm skinny-dipping in a great vat of Chocolate Chip

Cookie Dough and thinking about work.
Weird how life is sometimes.

[LynneSin]

12. If I was skinny-dipping in a vat of choc. chip cookie dough, I would NOT..

...be fantasizing about work.

I'd be fantasizing about Viggo Mortensen joining me in the vat!!

[FizzFuzz]

25. now that was hilarious!

[Mr.Green93]

13. Deep fried vegetables are great

[procopia]

14. Yeah, if they are breaded

and served with enough dip. :)

[TX-RAT]

15. It's because you have too many cats.

I'll take Abbott off your hands.

[LynneSin]

19. Abbott would run away from you and come back to me

He :loveya: me way too much to leave me!!!

[MallRat]

17. Potatoes are vegetables, too.

Try 'em fried. I hear they're pretty good with ketchup.

;-)

-MR

[Crunchy Frog]

20. Ketchup is a vegetable too.

Just look for some old quotes by Ronnie Reagan on that subject.

If you have fries and Ketchup as a regular part of your diet, you should do just fine.;-)

[LynneSin]

22. How can Ketchup be a vegetable when it's made from a fruit

:crazy:

[Crunchy Frog]

24. You'll have to ask Reagan about that

or at least one of his current spokespersons. He was All Wise, and All Knowing, so I figure he must have known what he was talking about.

Anyway, don't the food pyramids usually classify fruits and vegetables together?

[AntiCoup2K4]

45. But now Reagan is a vegetable himself

so he would be unable to comment.

[gpandas]

47. i thought he was dead

[stellanoir]

28. In the early 80's, Reagan declared ketchup a

vegetable so it could be included in a federal subsidy for a school lunch program.

Tomatoes are indeed fruit.

That's why it was so funny. Not so funny now, how disingenuous Republican nomenclature has "evolved" since then.

I had a friend at the time who was obsessed with the first lines of novels. . ."One Hundred Years of Solitude" had his then favorite.

He intended to write an autobiography at the time that started with. . ."It was 1981, and ketchup was a vegetable. . . ."

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

26. Shit! Now I'm gonna sit here at work and fantasize about you doing that!

I hate my life too!

[DemBones DemBones]

31. If you really believe that "vegetables taste like crap," you need to

re-educate your tastebuds. Many veggies are delicious raw or slightly cooked but "taste like crap" when overcooked.

Junk food is either overly sweet or overly salty. And I say that as someone who loves Cheetos! Much of it, including soft drinks, is full of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) -- Google that and learn why you should limit your consumption of HFCS. (Hint: it's like the nicotine they used to add to cigarettes.)

If you eat more fruit and vegetables and cut down on the amount of salt you use (taste your food before you shake salt all over it, and use less salt than recipes call for), you'll soon realize how nasty a lot of junk food really tastes.

I know this sounds like I'm a health food nut but I'm far from that! I've just learned not to eat anything unless I really enjoy it. If you don't eat veggies that taste like crap to you, why would you eat desserts or snacks that taste like crap?

I still love Cheetos but I have only eaten them twice in the past year or so. If I'm going to take in extra calories, there are foods that are better tasting than Cheetos.

[K8-EEE]

32. My Advice, Go To Your Local Farmer's Market,

If you start with the really fresh stuff, a mix of whatever is in season, steam it up just right, and maybe broil a little cheese on top and maybe some fresh salsa or black pepper -- that is one of my favorite things to have for dinner! Maybe some brown rice with it too...

If you buy the farmer's produce on Sunday, it will last all week -- at the supermarkets it's already 2 weeks old at LEAST by the time you buy it!

The other trick is to wash it, cut it up and have the steamer basket all set up when you come home from work, voila! Fast food!

[LynneSin]

33. I'm thinking of just juicing all my veggies

That way I can just drink all the veggies I need. I can chug just about anything no matter how crappy it tastes. But if I have to physically chew the stuff :puke:

[icymist]

34. Junk food is good because junk food is good.

I don't ask why!

[The empressof all]

37. Try this it helps me

I have the cookie dough monkey too- I sometimes make cookie-dough soda's. DaVinci's makes a sugar free cookie dough syrup. Mix with carbonated water and a little milk or cream. It lacks that great melty soft gummy lumpy feel in your mouth-but it tastes good.

[legin]

38. You got to cook them properly

Kasha Dragomirov

Buckwheat Groats boiled in just the right amount of salted water.

On top:
Nice lot of mushrooms fried in butter.
Towards the end double cream and black pepper added.

:9

[supernova]

39. Here's an answer for us low carbers

I really like the milk chocolate almond. It's a candy bar without the sugar.

[LynneSin]

42. Yeah, thank goodness for lo-carb chocolate

However, too much of it can cause some major MAJOR gastric distress!!!

[legin]

40. Tuna Curry

Fry white cabbage in pan with oil.

sling in garlic, cook for a bit.

sling in tin of tuna, cook for a bit.

Add tin of tomatoes, 1 tsp cummin, 1/2 tsp corriander, 1/4 tsp tumeric, 1/4 tsp chilli powder.

cook for a bit, serve on rice.

Very cheap and tastes OKish (once you get used to it).

[Padraig18]

41. White grapes in yogurt with a pinch of curry!

Proof that things that are good for you don't have to taste like crap. :)

[legin]

43. Mmmmm... interesting. I will have to try that one n/t

[Padraig18]

44. We love it with pork and chicken.

:)

[PVnRT]

46. It could be worse

You could have a master's degree and no job at all, and no prospects on the horizon.

[GOPisEvil]

48. And to top it off, the Cardinals are STILL stuck in neutral.

x(

I was wondering where you'd gotten off to. School, I figured.

Good luck on the job hunt.