Parenting
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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.
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In the finest Fern traditions, we've taken the Parenting thread and converted it to the "shittiest flatting stories", thread.
I suspect we could fill a whole new thread with these stories, unless that's just my experience.
Uni hostel, 1st year flat, year 2-4 "progression"... where do I start???
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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!
One year, in their wisdom, Auckland RU ran the club comp so that there weren't any divisions in the first round. Must have been 1992 ish?
They set it up so that there were two pools based on the finishing positions from previous year. 21 clubs, 10 in one pool, 11 in other.
Meant we essentially played 2 games per week, usual Saturdays plus a Tue or Wed under lights, or Anzac day / multiple games over Easter etc etc.
So throw in the need to maintain two trainings a week so many much $1 cheeseburgers kept me alive.
Waste of fucking time as I'm pretty sure we lost most (all) games we played ...
Maccas was good though.
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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.
Tegal free flow chicken pieces. I miss them.
Almost as much as sizzlers.
And can you still get those boxes of free flow lamb chops? Always a go to after footy practice.
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In the finest Fern traditions, we've taken the Parenting thread and converted it to the "shittiest flatting stories", thread.
I suspect we could fill a whole new thread with these stories, unless that's just my experience.
Uni hostel, 1st year flat, year 2-4 "progression"... where do I start???
And your parents were never concerned?
So apparently recent meals include a frozen leftover curry that Mrs Boo and I saved late last week (don't forget the naan bread), subway that doubled as lunch and dinner, and something else left over that I can't remember.
I did go shopping with her begore we dumped her off, and got her salads and stuff (like the pre made Caeser with extra chooken from the deli), but lazy. Which I totally relate to.
