Communism and tacos

[tropicsgoddess]

taco trees, obviously. Fields upon fields of them. In the early morning you can smell the cheddar wafting on the breeze.

hard taco....soft taco...black taco....taco....

[ta2ooed1]

hard taco....soft taco...black taco....taco....

TACO!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG3PnQ3tgzY

[HawaiianShirts]

Trucker: Damn. I didn't know you could make tacos!
Me:

Ow.

That actually reminds me of one of my roommates in college. Mom sent me a cake mix in a box and a can of frosting (I don't remember why anymore). I know how to make cake and frosting from scratch, but I didn't have the time with all my homework and such. So one night when I had a spare fifteen minutes or so, I broke out the "do-it-yourself-cake kit" and baked a cake.

Cake mix from the box.
Eggs.
Vegetable Oil.
Milk.
Mix it all together.
Pour it in a pan.
Bake it.
Spread the canned frosting on it.

Easy.

My roommate was STUNNED! He said, "You can make cakes?! WOW! We always BOUGHT our cakes! This is the best cake I've had in a LONG time!" Then he called up his girlfriend to tell her I baked a cake "from NOTHING!"

Sad.

[PepperElf]

no way to make ice tea?

O_o

personally i've been lazy with my tea. i make it in the coffee pot now. i use a filter if it's loose leaf. otherwise i just toss 2-3 bags in the filter-holder and brew. if i want to have it chilled, i dump it in a giant container in the fridge.


not much of a fan of sun tea myself
but only because sun tea bacteria scares me

[Soulstealer]

My roommate was STUNNED! He said, "You can make cakes?! WOW! We always BOUGHT our cakes! This is the best cake I've had in a LONG time!" Then he called up his girlfriend to tell her I baked a cake "from NOTHING!"

Sad.

Considering he thought you baked from scratch. Yes, yes it is.
Not that baking a cake from scratch is that much harder for most recipes.

[Grrrrrrr]

What does he believe in the taco fairy?

Great. Now all I can think about is a fairy who brings you taco's.

Semi ironic: I was reading this post while making burrito's.

[Kristev]

And people wonder why teachers suggest boys take home-ec classes.

[Geek King]

And people wonder why teachers suggest boys take home-ec classes.

Hee...I had a councilor in HS that was trying to force me into a home Ec class so I wouldn't have four study halls my senior year (I'd already taken all the college prep courses*, except those only offered to seniors ). I finally got him off my case when I told him, "Look Mr. Magoo (not real name), I've been in the Scouts for over ten years now. I can cook anything they do in the ovens over a campfire, and do repairs on my own clothes." I had all four study halls that year.






*Note: Most schools at that time didn't handle smart kids very well. Most curriculums were aimed at shoring up skill in basic courses, then taking "Honors" or AP classes the last couple of years. I, and a few others, started taking our AP classes during our Freshman years, so there wasn't much left by senior year. Out of a 7-class day, I ended up taking AP English (literature, really), Calculus, four study halls, and a Psychology course the new teacher they hired offered to teach. Not a bad year since all the homework I had to do outside of school was typing up papers and library research. I still find it amusing that the year after that, the school district started a deal with other local schools to jointly fund a program for advanced students.

[LadyAndreca]

And people wonder why teachers suggest boys take home-ec classes.

My sister's home ec class taught her to make microwave popcorn and cake mix from a box. As someone who had been already taking a turn at making dinner for several years at that point, she complained loud and long about being treated like she was stupid...until it turned out that most of her class didn't know how to do either of those things and was getting mad at her for making them look bad.

After that, the one friend who agreed with her started coming over to OUR house to learn how to cook, and they just took the easy A for the class.

[Flying Grype]

Not that baking a cake from scratch is that much harder for most recipes.

I remember a friend being all admiring when I said I made pancakes from scratch and never bought pancake mix. Dude, what's in the box? Flour, baking powder, fat, sugar. Add milk and egg and off you go. All you have to be able to do is measure.

[Jester]

...It makes me sad, and more than a little frightened that these men are on the road driving big dangerous trucks. The lack of brain cells is astounding.

Now hold on a moment. It is a proven fact that people can be very intelligent and/or talented at one thing and completely moronic at another. I am a perfect example of this, in many ways. One amusing example: I have a calculator for a brain and can do math astoundingly fast...and taxes, a common application of mathematics, is a completely foreign thing to me. My friend Mouse, who went to two ridiculously prestigious universities, and is brilliant in many ways, is an absolute blithering idiot behind the wheel of a car. Etc., etc., etc.

taco trees, obviously. Fields upon fields of them. In the early morning you can smell the cheddar wafting on the breeze.

This reminds me of a pasta place that used to exist just off of campus at ASU. On their menus, there was the "story" of their spaghetti farms with spaghetti trees, and how their workers harvested the noodles. More than one fellow student that dined with me took that menu story as gospel. And I'm not talking about dopey people majoring in The Tao of the Keg, but engineering students, among others.

Amusingly, another illustration of my first point above.

Great. Now all I can think about is a fairy who brings you taco's.

One of my less favorite Mexican places down here in KW used to be located right down by the gay bars. Sort of makes you look at the phrase "taco fairy" in a whole different way!

[Stryker One]

Emphasis

Maybe what was really saying was "Damn. I didn't know YOU could make tacos!"

[Hyena Dandy]

C...Communism?

Taco communism?

Taco communists...

Mexican Food Joseph Stalin!

[AccountingDrone]

no way to make ice tea?

O_o

personally i've been lazy with my tea. i make it in the coffee pot now. i use a filter if it's loose leaf. otherwise i just toss 2-3 bags in the filter-holder and brew. if i want to have it chilled, i dump it in a giant container in the fridge.


not much of a fan of sun tea myself
but only because sun tea bacteria scares me

I have a mr ice tea or whatever the mr coffee company calls it. We go to the effort of buying stash loose tea to use in it. Better quality tea, less tea used and it tastes fantastic =) Our icemaker can just keep up with how much we drink in the summer. We just got a mr coffee iced latte maker to go with it [brews and makes froofy iced coffee blender drinks like the starbucks outragously expensive ones]

I used to make birthday cakes, not even wilton decorated at my last job and it amazed them. I even duplicated the Olive Garden's lemon cream cake for one person. The one most requested was a miracle whip dutch chocolate with cooked fudge frosting that my mom has traditionally made for my brother since the early 1960s. The job before that I used to bake danishes and bring them in - the favorite there was a lingonberry jam and creamcheese filling. I love baking pastries, I did a lot of them when I was still a chef. One of my favorite thing is custard tarts with glazed fruit arranged on top. I really wish I could actually *eat* them still

[Magpie]

This reminds me of a pasta place that used to exist just off of campus at ASU. On their menus, there was the "story" of their spaghetti farms with spaghetti trees, and how their workers harvested the noodles. More than one fellow student that dined with me took that menu story as gospel. And I'm not talking about dopey people majoring in The Tao of the Keg, but engineering students, among others.

My sister fell for that when my parents and great-aunt and -uncle were discussing that. In her defense, my parents didn't take her seriously when she questioned them if they were teasing (they figured that she couldn't possibly believe them, and told her that of course they were serious), and my mom normally cracks up earlier than she did.

And if you could see some of my classmates or the undergrads around here, you'd understand why I'm confused at you using "engineering students" in a way that suggests this implies smartness. I think we have a higher rate of failing at life than other faculties do.