Shopping, the good the bad and the wtf?

[Sliceanddice]

there is a second benifit of a leash when in a crowded place like the mall.

A snatcher cant just wait for your child to wonder away from you to kidnap them, they would have to com within about 5 feet of you and either remove the harness (which you or others around you would notice) or cut the leash (most people would notice it the leash they are holding suddenly got looser especially if they had a runner) and your close enough that you would hear the child call for mommy.

Child leashes are great anti-kidnapping devices.

[iradney]

Let's ease up on the leash discussion, mk? It's something that's a little better suited to fratching.

[Magpie]

SHW, I'm not sure you realise this, but they were actually trying to poison you at the sandwich place - light mayonaise contains colour. Clearly someone who had heard about the dangers of tartrazine (I'm still not sure that it's bad for everyone, just that some people are insanely sensitive), and misunderstood it. You were making her look bad by being a decent human being, and she thought that you should be taken out.

[chainedbarista]

i'm not a fan of the leashes, but there are times when i wish they'd have existed when babychains was little; he was a fast little bugger, and after work, i had low/no energy to chase him down, but for the most part, he wasn't a difficult child, just had his moments.

to use the leash as a means of 'correction' or to lift, oh hell no, that's much like whipping them-painful and unnecessary.

[greek_jester]

to use the leash as a means of 'correction' or to lift, oh hell no, that's much like whipping them-painful and unnecessary.

That depends on the leash. The one I wore in the late 70's/early 80's was exactly like a climber's harness minus the straps around the legs, with a double-ended leash clipping on each side of my waist. Getting lifted up by it wasn't uncomfortable at all (particularly since mum always made sure I was at least wearing a cardie), & if I started getting fractious in a queue she'd pick me up with the leash a few inches & let me swing gently - I'd be squealing with laughter within seconds, since I loved to 'fly', & would sometimes go into a strop when she had to put me down to pay!

I was the worst possible combination as a child, being a bit deaf, overly intelligent & insatiably curious. I'd get distracted by things & stop or wander off at the drop of a hat, so going leashless, particularly since my little sister is less than 18 months younger than me & was in a pram at the time wasn't an option.

Re: the bad - good grief. That's the sort of server who gives the rest a bad name. A nice server I'd have let the mistake go, but that one, making cracks about needing light mayo? That'd be when I'd (politely) kick up a fuss, refuse to accept anything except the sandwich I ordered, & if necessary talk to the manager about her attitude.

[MoonCat]

Bleah, light mayo tastes like it's gone stale, no matter how fresh it actually is. And they were incredibly rude.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Again, we are not debating on if use of a child leash constitues sucky parenting or not.

I mean, ya'll can if you want. Just not here.

Also, if someone said I needed "light" anything in front of me, they would be wearing the foodstuff in question. I am not even joking.

[superhotelworker]

Kink> I really should have.

[Shalom]

Re: the bad - good grief. That's the sort of server who gives the rest a bad name. A nice server I'd have let the mistake go, but that one, making cracks about needing light mayo? That'd be when I'd (politely) kick up a fuss, refuse to accept anything except the sandwich I ordered, & if necessary talk to the manager about her attitude.

Oh hell yes. I'm a bit on the pudgy side, I'll be the first to admit it. But if someone tells me (or someone else in my hearing) that I ought to be eating light anything, they will be informed that it's not any of their damned business what I eat, except insofar as that it's their business to deliver what I ordered.

Especially when what was delivered was not what I ordered, and when what I actually did order didn't have any goddamned mayonnaise in it to start with. It was entirely their idea, so they have no right get on my case for it.

I just hate the stuff. Embarrassed the hell out of my wife once when I was eating by her mother's and reacted to seeing a blob of mayo in the avocado salad by instinctively recoiling from the plate. I couldn't help it, that's just what mayonnaise does to me. To each their own, I guess, but my own has no mayo in it if I can help it.

(Except in baba ghanoush. For some wacky reason I can tolerate mayonnaise if it has roasted eggplant in it, even if I can see it. Go figure that one out, I can't. Sometimes potato salad is OK too, depending on the recipe. Otherwise, no. I'll put condensed cream of mushroom soup in my tuna salad instead. Or celery soup, even better. Yum.)

It's not the taste per se, since if it's so thoroughly blended in that I can't tell it's there, it doesn't bother me that much. De gustibus non est disputandam, I guess.

[Magpie]

Except in baba ghanoush. For some wacky reason I can tolerate mayonnaise if it has roasted eggplant in it, even if I can see it.

And you're going to have to share this recipe. I've never seen a baba ganouj recipe with mayo in it, so now I'm curious.

[LadyAndreca]

Or celery soup, even better. Yum.

I'd never have thought of this, but now I'm curious to try it. Hmm...I think I have both ingredients on hand....

[Whiskey]

And you're going to have to share this recipe. I've never seen a baba ganouj recipe with mayo in it, so now I'm curious.

ditto. I dont think you were eating baba ganouj

[Dilorenzo]

One good way I've found to not get comments like that about my weight was to wear my full lenght leather trench, grow a long beard and let my hair grow out.

Of course, mileage may vary on that depending on various factors.

[Andara Bledin]

I'd never have thought of this, but now I'm curious to try it. Hmm...I think I have both ingredients on hand....

Well, considering that you used to put celery in tuna salad (most people sub in sweet relish and celery salt these days), it sounds like an outstanding idea. I'm going to have to try that at some point.

^-.-^

[Shalom]

And you're going to have to share this recipe. I've never seen a baba ganouj recipe with mayo in it, so now I'm curious.

Unfortunately I couldn't tell you. I don't make the stuff myself; I just get it in tubs from the kosher supermarket. (Usually this brand, but there are a few others.) They also have something similar without the mayo, but they just call that one "eggplant salad". Wikipedia says that baba ghanoush with mayo is the Israeli version, but it's the only kind I'm familiar with.

(And why do they all say "Eggplant Babaganoush" on the labels? Isn't that redundant? What the hell else can you make baba ghanoush out of if not eggplants? Sheesh.)

I do know that over Passover, the stuff doesn't taste as good, because Passover mayo has cottonseed oil instead of soy oil and it just tastes weird.