Parenting
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@mariner4life I had a flattie once who pinned the top sheet to his duvet to help him make his bed. I swear he only had one set of sheets all year and I don't recall them being washed. First meal was not only horrible (spaghetti boll using tomato sauce not tomato paste) it was also meagre. A cardinal sin
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@mariner4life did they actually cook them? We knew of a flat where they were starting from scratch in terms of cooking knowledge. That flat produced a mince dish that was legendary in its awfulness. I think someone was sick while eating it, let alone what happened to the poor bastards afterwards.
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@paekakboyz said in Parenting:
@mariner4life did they actually cook them? We knew of a flat where they were starting from scratch in terms of cooking knowledge. That flat produced a mince dish that was legendary in its awfulness. I think someone was sick while eating it, let alone what happened to the poor bastards afterwards.
Reminds me of my first meal; mince with liberal quantities of bbq sauce. Rice added for colour.
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think my first meal was a large bowl of mussels (probably as cheap as Maggi noodles at the time). Steamed them open in pot, washed them down with lots of cheap beer. Then obviously put the empty shells in neighbours bin because as student you always did stupid things and didnt want to have to clean my own bin.
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@no-quarter said in Parenting:
I used to love Sizzlers but now I can barely stomach them. They're on par with dog food for me.
They are still a guilty pleasure for me. Like Cherrios!!! (Especially in a pub in Wellington!!! @Smudge )
Any pub that serves Cheerios by the pound deserves my returning patronage.
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@paekakboyz said in Parenting:
@mariner4life did they actually cook them? We knew of a flat where they were starting from scratch in terms of cooking knowledge. That flat produced a mince dish that was legendary in its awfulness. I think someone was sick while eating it, let alone what happened to the poor bastards afterwards.
Mate of mine called up his mum to ask how to make mashed potatoes and she walked him through the process - or so she thought. It didn't go well.
Phone call the next day between them:
Mum: "How was the mashed potato?"
Son: "umm very watery"
Mum: "You did drain the water before mashing them, didn't you?"
Son: "No, you didn't tell me to!" -
I was reading a thread about stories of newbie staff getting things terribly wrong. One guy was put to work separating up some kind of crustacean and did a great job. Till he threw the good stuff in the bin. Or the baker who didn't think to tell the new guy to use gloves when grabbing a tray from a hot oven.
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@paekakboyz said in Parenting:
@mariner4life did they actually cook them? We knew of a flat where they were starting from scratch in terms of cooking knowledge. That flat produced a mince dish that was legendary in its awfulness. I think someone was sick while eating it, let alone what happened to the poor bastards afterwards.
Mate of mine called up his mum to ask how to make mashed potatoes and she walked him through the process - or so she thought. It didn't go well.
Phone call the next day between them:
Mum: "How was the mashed potato?"
Son: "umm very watery"
Mum: "You did drain the water before mashing them, didn't you?"
Son: "No, you didn't tell me to!"That really is quite excellent!!
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I used to buy a packet of Jatz crackers and a jar of salsa and eat that for lunch.
Breakfast was milk with ice cream eggs and Nestlé Quick.
Dinner was usually cheap and nasty schnitzels that I burnt the shit out of. I used tomato sauce to make it edible.
Fark I abused my body in my 20s.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Parenting:
Dinner was usually cheap and nasty schnitzels that I burnt the shit out of. I used tomato sauce to make it edible.
Rancid schintzel @Rancid-Schnitzel?
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Parenting:
Dinner was usually cheap and nasty schnitzels that I burnt the shit out of. I used tomato sauce to make it edible.
Rancid schintzel @Rancid-Schnitzel?
Tis no coincidence.
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Went to uni in Wagga in the mid 90s - there was a servo in town you could get 75c hotdogs with unlimited toppings.
Worth the petrol money for a night time run. Probably the most vegetable-related material I ate at uni, in terms of loading up the hot dog with tomato, lettuce, etc.
But fuck me didn't I get on it when Maccas had their 50c Cheeseburger anniversary special in third year!
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Went to uni in Wagga in the mid 90s - there was a servo in town you could get 75c hotdogs with unlimited toppings.
Worth the petrol money for a night time run. Probably the most vegetable-related material I ate at uni, in terms of loading up the hot dog with tomato, lettuce, etc.
But fuck me didn't I get on it when Maccas had their 50c Cheeseburger anniversary special in third year!
I have vague memories of some sort of Maccas cheeseburger promo here and our whole flat sent the only guy sober/with a license to buy about 50 or 60 in one go.
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My first year flatting there were 6 of us, three guys and three girls. Us three guys had our normal flatting staples, one did a spicy bolognese, one did a lasagne, and I did a fish pie (in hindsight that seems stupid as it was actually a decent amount of work). All pretty decent.
But the girls couldn't cook for shit. They'd even stuff up those chicken pieces you just roast in the oven. Messy too. TBF, they were from Northland.
KFC had the $5 quarter pack back then so it was usually after dinner KFC on the nights they cooked.
