The 'Eat Your Food and Like It' Complaint Thread
Charlie Judge
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The title derives from a cook at the restaurant on the fishing pier where i used to work. If a customer complained about a wrong order she would come out from the kitchen and tell them "Shut up, eat your food and like it"
This discussion was created from comments split from: The Sky is Falling Complaint Thread.
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Thanks for all the birthday wishes everybody. I had a nice quiet one
This gives me a chance to talk about a concept I call "misecdoche", where a word stands in for something it was not meant to stand in for. Arby's puts roast beef on pita and calls it a gyro, when A) "gyros" is the singular form and B) the meaning of the word "gyros" is "turned", referring to how the meat is cooked on a spit. Therefore, an Arby's "gyro" is missing the most fundamental element. Most people associate sushi with raw fish, even though A) raw fish, served by itself, is sashimi, not sushi B) not all sushi contains raw fish, or even fish at all, and C) the only ingredient that is absolutely required for something to be considered sushi is vinegared rice. By that same token, we (at least in the US), have come to associate salad with vegetables, particularly lettuce, even though examples of non-vegetable salads (tuna, chicken, egg, fruit, etc.) are well-known.
That's just how life goes in the They'll Put Lettuce On Anything And Call It A Salad Complaint Thread.
I stayed at a Holiday Inn Hotel in Nuneaton in the UK with an interesting approach to customer complaints. This was about 2010.
I was having breakfast in the restaurant when a very large, rotund, red faced woman wearing white catering getup stomped out, put her meaty fists on her wide hips and yelled to everyone 'Right! Who Complained about my SAUSAGES?' And as she finished she made some swipes with the catering size ladle she had in her right paw. Then when nobody owned up, she yelled 'I know some little rag did. WHO WAS IT?'.
Definitely a novel approach I've not seen elsewhere.
Regards,
Richard
Much like the cook at the fishing pier where I worked. Fortunately she was a good cook and much liked by her cusomers so she could get away with it.
When I lived in Greece the still had their own coinage and if served poor food or service, a common tip to quietly get your point across as you left was to leave a half lefka coin. I still have some in a mug, along with assorted European coinage pre-Euro.
I want to get a female black molly and put her in a glass box full of water. I want to force her to swim for her food. Might make her eat fish food. Maybe Fluval bug bites tropical verity?
When I lived in the Washington DC area there was a restaurant near where I worked in Virginia that was known for it's confrontational owners. Stories abounded of rants and insults of either of the owners/cooks if you dared to complain. Our group would go there once in a while but I never witnessed the locally famous behavior, but the stories persisted. Kind'a like that couple from Amy's Baking Company on Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares.
Complaint: Too many Fahrenheits!: Mid 80sF (30C), and humidity of 77% until Saturday when hopefully it rains a bit and is a couple degrees cooler, then back into the 80s again till next Tuesday.
My air-conditioner (now mostly cleaned of mold) has revealed that it's dying.
I can't get really cold air out of it anymore and it refuses to go below 74F even when left running all night with the outside air being moderate. 
The only place I have for a window airconditioner is my upstairs bedroom. I'd prefer if it could drop the upstairs bedroom to 68F and let the cool air drift down the stairs into my office/livingroom/museum to get it below 80F on hot days. These last few hot days have seen me reviving my Florida behavior and sitting around the house nearly naked, conserving energy and turning off all heat generating equipment except the TV, refrigerator and clocks. I'd considered getting a new air-conditioner a few weeks ago, but now that perfect purchase at Amazon is out of stock.
Wheee, just saved $400, now the next equivalent is $500.
Unfortunately I may have to go ahead and get one because even if the weather does this year what it did last year, i.e. be hot for only 4 weeks, then settle into tolerable weather for the rest of the summer/fall I'll need a new A/C for next year anyway. The problem is I can no longer manhandle an A/C unit anymore. It nearly killed me (literally) the last time I did it taking it out of the window last October when I had my heart attack. A new A/C means removing the old one, getting it downstairs, getting a new one to the house and up the stairs and into the window, and dealing with the shipping carton too.(*Sigh*) And it means robbing my savings account again, just when I'd finally stabilized it.
I have been able to open a couple windows upstairs and put an exhaust fan in the downstairs bathroom window to pull cooler air through the upstairs window to keep the bedroom from getting too hot & stale, and keep air moving through the house. I also have a fan blowing on me while watching TV or sitting at the computer. Even at 74F with a fan blowing on me and sleeping nearly naked on top of the sheets I sweat all night.
A few moments later
Non-complaint: I did it. Went to Amazon and picked another model of A/C, on sale (LG instead of Frigidaire). It was the last one in stock.
My last A/C (a Frigidaire) lasted about 12 years. I hope this is the last A/C I ever have to buy.
Since your hope could be satisfied as soon as your purchase has cleared the bank or credit card, I hope your hope doesn't come to pass for a loooooong time.
Twelve years would be nice.
I'd be 88 and a half. (It's OK to mention half years after 80.)
I hope this cheese pizza will help my hunger issue. I put extra Colby Jack on it so it is really cheesy!
Yikes! Maybe hire someone to do it for you? Be careful of yourself.
...the cost for an air conditioner (there is a programme here for seniors on low incomes to get a free one) and even installation of the unit is not the issue (building maintenance handles the latter). The real issue is what it does to the monthly power bill, particularly as our utility recently smacked us with an 18% rate increase.
Summer is about the only time that my power bill is somewhat reasonable.
For being only 24 years old my building seems almost as "well insulated" as a 125 year old Victorian house, hence in winter, I have to use the heater much of the time.
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@Charlie Judge, Congratulations on winning the thread on your birthday.
I hear that. I have lived in military housing where you could lean against a wall at night while in bed, during the winter and feel the wind blowing through the tissue-thin walls. I thought when I retired it would be better, but found the same developer had built the houses off base too.
My apartment may not be great, but the monster apartment across the way, 20 - 30 years old and visible around Denver, is unable to be filled fully due to its poor condition, numerous calls for the fire department to check out wiring, fires in the HVAC, or ill people. Terrible eyesore. And no dog park. They sneak across the street to ours and then snear at us.
Yeah, my neighbor in the other half of the house is sort of the maintenance man here (stepson of the landlord) He lifted it into the window for me a few weeks ago. Now I have to ask him to do the exchange for me too.
Amazon will deliver to the door, but after that it's my problem.
Have you considered those little personal air conditioners? Okay, they're more water-cooled fans, but they work remarkably well (or, at least, the ones I had did)...and they're fairly cheap (less than $50USD). The ones I had worked 4-6 hours before needing to be refilled with water, but I understand the newer models last 8-10 hours between refills. They're not so great with large areas, more of a supplemental cooling source that can be placed wherever you need it and they work great in that capacity.
Black Mollies also love fresh veggies like Zucchini, Cucumber and occasionally some green peas. Fish also love eating baby fish and my obsession was to save them. About 7 years ago, I started out with a few fish and a small tank. Now, 2 x 75 gallons, a 40 gallon, 2 x 10 gallons and 2 x5 gallon hospital tanks later I often think why not use the aquariums as planter boxes? The problem is fish are insecure and require the stimulation of being in a group so they need to be in shoals of 5-7 (sort of like social media for fish) and they love to mate. A male fish needs at least two females, so while he is chasing one the other gets a rest and gets to eat. The fish hobby is almost as addictive as DAZ. If you want just one fish a Betta (also known as Siamese fighting fish) are not only beautiful, they need to be saved from that tiny jar the stores keep them in. But only buy one because they are territorial and too aggressive to be housed with other fish. A 5 gallon tank is perfect for one. But Bettas do not eat veggies. They are carnivores.
I'm confused by this thread. What is the topic or is there one? I have no milk for my cereal and its too damn hot, the dog smells, and he peed on the sunflowers.
why she called Brianna 9 HD when you need to buy the HD separately.
This thread is related to the "Confuse-A-Cat" situation.
I would assume the effectiveness is inversely proportional to the humidity. I beleive older houses in hot areas have a trough in the windowsill; that would be filled with water and a cloth hung so it dnagled into the water, giving a degree of evaporative cooling to the incoming iar (again, subject to humidity).
Non-complaint: A minor mini-adventure this morning. Breakfast at BurgerKing and a quick toddle to the grocery store near there, then an uber home. Mischief managed, and spreadsheet updated.
Complaint: The grocery store was out of my preferred bags of salad greens, nothing left but Caesar Salad mix bags with included croutons.
I hate croutons. Why put lumps of sand in a crisp, moist salad.
And since when did two bags of groceries total to nearly $100, even from a proper grocery store?
Complaint: It rained last night but didn't help the humidity or heat situation. It's back into the 80's (F) again for another week. New A/C won't arrive for 5 more days. Old A/C is trying, bless it's heart, but it's on it's last legs and losing the race.
Yep, those evaporative air coolers work OK in a dry environment (think Arizona). Back in '65 my parents had bought a new Buick Sportwagon (the one with those dark glass skylights) and we took a trip from here (Jamestown, NY) to Melbourne, Florida and dad bought an evaporative cooler for the car from the Sears catalog. It sat over the hump in the front seat between driver & passenger. Wasn't worth the money to blow it up. It ended up staying in the car for years, being used only as a coin tray and map holder.
His next car had real A/C, but by then I was away at college.
Nostalgia: Sigh, cars back then had real style and were not just pastel M&Ms.
where are the side window vents and the fender vents. That was cooling..all the breezes. these new cars are terrible with the windows down. Sucks your ear drums out or leaves you deaf with the wind noise.
That's a beautiful poem... Haiku? Senryu?
I'm confused by this thread.
What is the topic?
Or is there none?
I have no milk for my cereal.
It is too damned hot.
The dog smells.
He peed on the sunflowers.
-daveso 2025
Complaint: Cut the tip off my index finger while making the food I'm supposed to like and eat.
Thread of chaos spins,
Cereal waits, milkless bowl,
Heat and dog mishaps.
Lost in this wild thread,
No milk, just summer’s hot breath,
Dog's mischief blooms tall.
Ouch!
That was clever. Or was it cleaver?
You should write a "How To" book. Or perhaps a "How Not To" book.
And yet you can still type. Or has the Lidocane not yet worn off?
An explanation of the title is in the first post. However, I am amiable to changing it if a suitable title comes along.