Nope, you eat it
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@Zerosquare said in Nope, you eat it:
@HardwareGeek said in Nope, you eat it:
Your eyes are bigger than your stomach
Huh, interesting. I didn't know that this exact saying also existed in English.
I forget where you're from? It exists in Dutch too.
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@Zerosquare said in Nope, you eat it:
@PleegWat said in Nope, you eat it:
I forget where you're from?
France.
Figures that a saying about overeating would originate from the land of pain
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@HardwareGeek said in Nope, you eat it:
I also remember my dad saying, "Your eyes are bigger than your stomach,"
"Big-eyes" was literally my wife's nickname as a kid, from this very saying.
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@PleegWat said in Nope, you eat it:
@Zerosquare said in Nope, you eat it:
@HardwareGeek said in Nope, you eat it:
Your eyes are bigger than your stomach
Huh, interesting. I didn't know that this exact saying also existed in English.
I forget where you're from? It exists in Dutch too.
Seems to be very widespread. Confirmed in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Dutch, French, and according to leo.org it exists in Russian and Chinese, too.
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@Carnage said in Nope, you eat it:
My parents had a strict diet of "eat what's served or cook yourselves, you lazy fucks".
That is also how I would describe my childhood, but...
@HardwareGeek said in Nope, you eat it:
our everyday fare consisted of things we all liked
... that's in a large part how my mother describes it now.
(and both are not exclusive!)
Basically, at some point parents have a choice between being sure that a dish will turn the dinner table into drama, or just cook something else to start with. I'm not saying they always pick the latter, but I am also very much saying that they often do.
(also my mother tended to "balance" meals, in that a dish that she knew we wouldn't like might be served with a side dish that we loved)
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@remi my mother had a daycare and knew how to deal with kids. Drama meant that everyone except you got ice-cream after the lunch/dinner for instance.
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@Carnage I'd still be surprised if she never took kids' preferences into account when picking meals. Unless she was a sadist or very dumb.
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@remi said in Nope, you eat it:
@Carnage I'd still be surprised if she never took kids' preferences into account when picking meals. Unless she was a sadist or very dumb.
She didn't go out of her way to give the kids food they disliked, but eith 12 kids to feed, you can't cater to the whims of any of them.
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@Carnage said in Nope, you eat it:
you can't cater to the whims of any of them.
If that's how you understand "taking kids' preferences into account" we have a communication problem.
With 12 kids to feed she would also necessarily have thought about whether picking something that she knew would create drama was worth it or not. Because with (small) kids, ice cream for everyone else or not, you know that some food will start a drama.
That doesn't mean she would have always gone for the no-drama option (for one thing, just a grumpy kid can start a drama even with food they usually love, and then there are obviously many other reasons to not just serve chicken nugget and fries at every meal). But that means she would have to be very dumb to never do it.
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@remi said in Nope, you eat it:
@Carnage said in Nope, you eat it:
you can't cater to the whims of any of them.
If that's how you understand "taking kids' preferences into account" we have a communication problem.
With 12 kids to feed she would also necessarily have thought about whether picking something that she knew would create drama was worth it or not. Because with (small) kids, ice cream for everyone else or not, you know that some food will start a drama.
That doesn't mean she would have always gone for the no-drama option (for one thing, just a grumpy kid can start a drama even with food they usually love, and then there are obviously many other reasons to not just serve chicken nugget and fries at every meal). But that means she would have to be very dumb to never do it.
She had a pretty fixed list of foods she made, all optimized for ease of cooking. She did not give a single flying fuck if some kid did not like any of the options. In fact, parents were awestruck at what the kids ate during daycare because the parents could not make the kid eat it. And as I said, drama was dealt with, if drama was severe enough, you got to sit in a timeout. Which if it was about food, lasted until you ate your food, while the other kids got some ice cream, and then went off to play. And there was no other food presented.
So your option was to eat food you didn't like, or eat the same food you didn't like, only it was cold. Or sit and wait while hungry until your parents picked you up, and then you'd be given your plate the next day for lunch.
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@Carnage still not convinced that never happened (even unconsciously) but that's just me doubting you.
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@remi The standard meal was boiled potatoes with some cooked vegetable and meat. I've never been a fan of the potatoes (though to be honest more often than not the real problem was in the gravy). Nobody ever complained about the meat, and there was just no pleasing some people with vegetables, though I rarely minded. The only person who never had to eat a single dish they didn't like was my mum.
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<>Looks like we're reaching @remi's point, or the thread is moving on to some other vaguely related topic.</>
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@remi I do think she started allowing for us more as we aged. When we were young there was a certain amount of "I don't care if you didn't like it last time, last time was a year ago and you're eating it again". Probably justified.
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Status: Having what remains of a bottle of alcohol-free wine. Not sure how we ended up with one of those, but it is relevant to this thread...
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@dkf If you're having it, it doesn't.
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@PleegWat It could be worse. Shiitake mushroom
crispschips for example...
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@Zerosquare said in Nope, you eat it:
@dkf said in Nope, you eat it:
alcohol-free wine
E_NO_SUCH_THING
They serve it at communion every week
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@Tsaukpaetra It isn't the same thing though! It had... something done to it, something that put the drink into the uncanny valley between grape juice and wine.
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You mean... vinegar?
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eat anything in any shade of brown
@Zerosquare said in Nope, you eat it:
"You're all getting Gouraud-shaded carrots. Happy now?"
That's ... not how that works, but I'm happy you made that joke anway.
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@HardwareGeek I'm no Baker, but my money is on dead yeast or utterly failing on one of the measures.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Nope, you eat it:
@HardwareGeek I'm no Baker, but my money is on dead yeast or utterly failing on one of the measures.
Baking it would be a good idea.
But yeah, you need to wait for it to be really itchy before scraping the thrush.
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@cheong I assume that's not what the Chinese text says. What is the proper translation?
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@HardwareGeek Grilled Chicken w/ Mushroom Sauce
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@cheong said in Nope, you eat it:
@HardwareGeek Grilled Chicken w/ Mushroom Sauce
Classic autocarrot. Someone semi-familiar with English orthography probably wrote "mashroom", got it marked as misspelled and picked the suggested correction.
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@cheong How does that work with the first character being the number five?
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@da-Doctah Five spices.
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@da-Doctah said in Nope, you eat it:
@cheong How does that work with the first character being the number five?
The "Five spice" part is completely ignored in the translation.
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@LaoC He's right, and yet very wrong. He's right that microwaves are bad at warming pastry items, but using a radiator for it is very much not right.
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One TikTok user wrote that "my Canadian self is laughing at the comment... we've been eating snow since we could crawl".
And just look at how you turned out. Not only are you on TikTok, you're Canadian! Eating snow obviously causes severe cognitive deficiency.
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More proof that there really is a better Korea.
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@DogsB
Most North Koreans would die for some fried toothpicks
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@boomzilla said in Nope, you eat it:
At least they're not doing literal translation of "God Penis Wine".
Btw, from the smaller Chinese text below, this seems to have gecko's testicles immersed inside.
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@cheong said in Nope, you eat it:
@boomzilla said in Nope, you eat it:
At least they're not doing literal translation of "God Penis Wine".
Something to do with anagrams of kombucha.
https://youtu.be/_g3Rb5oMIUU?feature=shared&t=28