Pete Talks Food
Hey there friends, are you well? I should certainly hope so! The weather is intermittently getting warmer which is sweet. I actually wore sunglasses for the first time in months on Saturday (and not just because I was mildly hung-over). Waking up that morning was actually pretty funny – glad no-one was there - I was having this dream where I was swimming in a pool of marshmallows… You know, chewing my way about inside it and stuff… Woke up to find I had chewed a hole in my sleeping bag – gutz…
So, food and drink eh? Two things I quite like *Nom nom nom*. One of my personal favourites is the water-melon. It’s one of those good “all-rounders” an excellent food that you can both eat and drink. I mean, you can do the same with yoghurt, but Watermelon is kind enough to try and wash your face while you consume – no such niceties from yoghurt.
I think the secret to enjoying food and drink is experimentation. Not like putting fluffy hand-cuffs on your mashed potato, rather trying new things. And before you get ahead of yourself, I’m not just talking about trying new foods, in readying this column I did some little experiments of my own. Some worked and others didn’t, I’ll give you the highlights in bullet point form:
- I managed to find a sneaky little shortcut to breakfast in bed – sleeping in the kitchen. It makes for easy access to a cool glass of water at odd hours of the night too – stoked!
- Last weekend I went into a restaurant in which the lunch menu said “available at any time” – I ordered a chicken panini during the Jurassic period, they gave me a regular chicken panini – can’t say I’m too surprised…
- Learned something you all might like to keep in mind – it is not possible to make pumpkin pie by dividing the pumpkin’s circumference by its radius2 – I’m sure you can imagine my disappointment.
- I’m still wondering about this one, as it was hard to prove or disprove but maybe you can find an answer for yourselves: do chickens find rubber people funny?
It is with these thoughts that I welcome you to another issue of In Unison and a fresh new week at Unitec.
Staying hip in changing times:
Fitting in with the theme, I’m going to get you up to speed with the food world: Organic produce is in people! I say, down with artificially ripened tomatoes and high fructose corn syrup in eeeeverything! And tell McDonald’s they aren’t fooling anyone with their “healthy options” – seven grams of fat in a SALAD? You must be joking… Start a garden, shop smart, and take care of yourselves!