Bad Compliments

Part of maintaining a long term relationship is compliments: letting your partner know how and what you appreciate about him or her. This is particularly true with cooking. When someone has taken time out of her/his busy day to make you food, you should be thankful and complimentary.

That being said, not all compliments are created equally. This is my bottom three list of compliments to give your spouse/partner on his/her cooking.

3. Buttery Rolls
Well, insert any adjective in front of rolls and it's still bad. Yes, a roll is another way of saying bun, but NO ONE wants to hear anything about their rolls regardless of how delicious/amazing/etc. they are.

2. This tastes great with ketchup!
I love ketchup, so this was a hard one for me to learn. Most people make food to be eaten on its own. If they want a sauce on it, it's usually cooked in or served with said sauce. Destroying an original, from-the-heart creation by drowning it in sweet, vinegary, pulverized tomatoes and then complimenting it, is a faux pas of the worst sort.

1. "This is the best X you've ever made!"
This might be a very good compliment, but you need to do some detective work beforehand. If the meal is take out, heat and serve from the grocery store, or--worst--thawed leftovers of something you, yourself, made, you are in big trouble!

Know any other bad compliments? Leave a comment and let me know.

Orange-ku VIII

I imagine my oranges in sun.
They don't dance, don't frolic, don't move in any way.
They just soak up light, making glorious fruit.

I imagine my oranges at sea.
In crates, in darkness they bob and drift and slide.
Afraid, alone, suddenly homesick.

I imagine my oranges in store.
Unsure, hopeful, watching every passerby.
Then I come, say, "You won't be consumed in vain."

20 Orange Round Up!

Can you believe I've already eaten 20 oranges? It's only been 2 weeks!

Here are the results thus far:

The average/mean is 10.1 segments per orange.

The mode is 10, as is the median.

The standard deviation of this sample is 1.209610638

I only have one orange left from our first box, so I'll have to replenish the stock over the weekend.

Check out the blog page for a look at the distribution chart. It's got the makings of a nice bell curve, if you ask me.

I'll leave you with Orange-ku VII:

There is just one orange left to eat
It's skin is getting dry and hard,
but it feels extra mushy inside. Yum?