I cant believe I just ate.....

[Sundae]

I had a whole red onion at lunch.

I hadn't realised I already had onions last time I went shopping, so I bought another 3. Panicked by the fact I was becoming over-run with them I decided to use one of Nigella's tricks and soak the chopped onion overnight in lime juice. This made them crunchy and tasty without any of the "burn" you get when you eat them raw.

So I had cracked wheat, smoked salmon (trimmings, £1.18 a pack), red onion, sweetcorn with a lime and garlic dressing. And I don't smell of onions! Just garlic.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Marinated onions! Is that cool or what?

Aaand next on the platter: pickled!!

I do too know what pickled onions are! -- I just haven't eaten very many. First encounters with pickles -- that reminds me. A New Zealand friend of mine in high school got introduced to dill pickles on school lunch hamburgers. He thought they were absolutely awful. I tried to tell him about sweet pickles, or bread-and-butter pickles, but I don't think he ever believed me. He never did get a taste for them.

[DucksNuts]

I love pickled onions

[Clodfobble]

Minifob loves dill pickles. He'll eat them by the plateful. Now I know for sure he wasn't switched at the hospital.

[Dingleschmutz]

I had octopus for the first time last night. As chewy as expected, I'm afraid.

[ZenGum]

Originally Posted by Dingleschmutz

I had octopus for the first time last night. As chewy as expected, I'm afraid.

Visit a really top class sushi restaurant. They can bring a live octopus to your table, chop off a tentacle and drop it, still writhing, onto your plate, and you are expected to eat it immediately.
I have not had this. I've read, though, that the suckers on the tentacles will still be puckering and releasing as you chew ... suckering on to the roof of your mouth and the insides of your cheeks...


There now, your dinner wasn't so bad, was it?

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Visit a really top class sushi restaurant. They can bring a live octopus to your table, chop off a tentacle and drop it, still writhing, onto your plate, and you are expected to eat it immediately.
I have not had this. I've read, though, that the suckers on the tentacles will still be puckering and releasing as you chew ... suckering on to the roof of your mouth and the insides of your cheeks...


There now, your dinner wasn't so bad, was it?

You're supposed to put them down your pants! It's AWESOME!!!

[Sundae]

Now I like octopus. But that is just grim.

[Dingleschmutz]

I didn't say it was bad, it was just chewy. It was just two pieces of nigiri, and it was cooked, so it's not like it was gonna ruin my dinner.

As for the writhing, sucking tentacle thing... Only in Japan.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

I've read, though, that the suckers on the tentacles will still be puckering and releasing as you chew ... suckering on to the roof of your mouth and the insides of your cheeks...

Just like in Oldboy (which I highly recommend, but not fucking dubbed like this clip is):

[wolf]

I get these coupons for up to $8 worth of hospital cafeteria food while momWolf is in the hospital. It's a kind of a bonus club. Instead of frequent flyer miles, I get food, a discount in the gift shop, and free parking.

Usually I'm there around or after lunch and I get the sushi plate (I'm a sushi wuss, so it involves some kind of seafood that's already cooked, like the crab, shrimp, or smoked salmon). Today I was there for dinner.

I had the meatloaf and the mac 'n cheez, some peanut butter cookies, and a Coke.

And two rounds of Tums. So far.

If you don't hear from me again, tell the CDC that it was the meatloaf.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by wolf

I get these coupons for up to $8 worth of hospital cafeteria food while momWolf is in the hospital. It's a kind of a bonus club. Instead of frequent flyer miles, I get food, a discount in the gift shop, and free parking.
--snip--

Count yourself lucky on this score.

My mom recently fell and went to the emergency room. The doctors decided to keep her overnight. I stayed with her, naturally. When I emerged from the hospital the next morning, I found a $60 parking ticket on the car. Where it was acceptable to park at 9 pm, it was ... expensive to park at 9 am. At least mom's ok.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by BigV

Count yourself lucky on this score.

My mom recently fell and went to the emergency room. The doctors decided to keep her overnight. I stayed with her, naturally. When I emerged from the hospital the next morning, I found a $60 parking ticket on the car. Where it was acceptable to park at 9 pm, it was ... expensive to park at 9 am. At least mom's ok.

Yeouch!

I have a couple of not quite legal places that I park (the area out back by the HR office, for example) and only use the parking garage when I absolutely have to. Even were I to pay for it, it's only $5, free if you're in there for less than an hour, which is never the case for me. One of the mysterious parts to the hospital parking situation is that while the self-park garage is $5, valet parking is $3.50 ... free if you're bringing a patient to the ER, because there is construction going on, so the ER spaces are no longer available as they are all reserved for ambulances, since they lost about half of their parking to the construction. The ER, though, is doing better than the radiation oncology center, which lost all of it's parking and their entire building. They're operating out of a series of trailers, as far as I can tell. This is a "city" hospital I'm going to, but one of the more suburban of the city hospitals, in terms of setting and feel. The real City Hospitals charge $10 an hour for parking, so I count myself lucky here.

[Aliantha]

A whole packet of pods after half a bagette with taramasalata

[wolf]

You know the yanks are going to ask ... what are pods? and that taramasalata thingy? Salata, I assume, means salad, but what's in it?