Oh come on! You know you write it because you love it. Not saying it’s not soul crushing, and it’s not hard work. Just please don’t try and tell us you’d stop writing if you didn’t have the money to do so. You would absolutely keep writing. I’m grateful. Grateful enough to subscribe! But I’m not going to pretend I’m keeping you from starvation. You just went on a 3 country tour ffs. I haven’t left the country since 2019…
The two herbs I could most do without, cilantro and dill, were not on your list.
I missed yesterday’s pizza post. But looking at the photo of the leftovers, I must disagree with your answer. You said you had each eaten the same amount of pizza. It appears to me that the amount (or volume, if you will) of the pizza you ate from the interior would have amounted to somewhat more than half of the entire pizza originally served to you. Of course there is no way I could really know that after the fact (or without instruments of measurement); appearances can be deceiving. But if we were to use weight as the measurement for the amount of pizza you consumed, I would be much more confident in saying that the weight of the pizza “interior” you consumed was more than the weight of the leftover crust. Sorry this analysis was so boring but at least I paid for the space.
Re/ GWAR: My college roommate went on a blind date, wearing a cute white shirt, jeans, and spiffy green sandals. She returned to our digs utterly bedraggled, her hair stuck to her head in clumps, her shirt and jeans spattered in fake blood. Turns out her date had chosen to squire her to a GWAR show… There was no second date😝
1. Gene, I liked your workaround to stress the pronoun "I." I wonder if that was influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by DC's "Eye Street."
2. I was disappointed, but not surprised, by parsley's unpopularity. Supermarket parsley, especially the curly variety, is often insipid and limp. It's also overused as a garnish. Growing one's own, especially the flat-leaf variety, might change some opinions, though.
3. At your funeral, will you receive a 21-clock salute?
Geometrically speaking, the person who ate all of half of the pizza got significantly more pizza than the other person. By far the most pizza by area and volume is in the crust ends.
Philistine! Good pizza crust (and yours looks good) is a sublime minimalist ending to the bacchanalia that is the sauce, cheese, and toppings part. It centers the eater before the next slice; more than a simple palate cleanse, it is a paean to the craft and art of the baker who has made the whole glorious pizza possible. The crust is a must.
In my opinion (humble or not) two types of people eat pizza. and I date back to 1951 when our new neighbors introduced us to pizza. They picked up dough at a bakery just about every day and made their own. Thick. And my mother, from Texas, tried to make her own but really it was a pan of hot rolls with toppings. What did I know. I loved it. Mostly sauce and hamburger. And I still like bread and a thick pie. In my opinion, people who like thin crust are interested in toppings and not so much bead and they leave the rims intact. I like the rims. They leave a different flavor with me. But there is no accounting for taste. ENJOY!! And likely I am wrong about two types of people. Some believe that and the other type do not.
Gene, Gene. Your answer to the pizza puzzle was Bill Clintonesque: “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘amount’ is.” You and Rachel may have eaten the same number of slices (or partial slices), but you did not eat the same amount of pizza. And, I have to say it, you had a lot of crust to give the answer you did.
In your woe-is-me plea for subscribers, we really didn’t need to hear about your prostate problems. Or as Detective Sipowicz in the old NYPD Blue series called it, his “prostrate”.
He at all his slices, just half of them, leaving the crust. She ate half her slices, crust and all. I’ll give him that the amounts were roughly similar. What I’m disappointed about is the verbal legerdemain involving the amount on the pan vs the plate. I know people who leave their crusts in the pan so as not to clutter their plates, which tend to be small in tony pizza places.
Since the hair-splitting "pan" vs. "plate" distinction was so unsatisfactory, here is the solution I didn't bother to send in yesterday: Rachel had eaten half of some third person's pizza. (The set-up does NOT rule that out.) I also liked the answer about Gene dropping half of his on the floor.
Parsley, you say? You seem to have overlooked the veggie/garnish, to say nothing of superfood of the minute, watercress. I believe it may now have even replaced kale at the top of the "told-to-eat" list. Speaking of kale, just to up the produce ante are kalettes, a hybrid of kale and Brussels sprouts, assuring a steady supply of vitamins A, C, K and flatulence.
Dumn. You had pizza left. Here’s the proof: If the waiter had delivered just the non-crust center and claimed, “Hey, you ordered pizza,” you’d have been miffed. The crust is pizza.
Am I missing something here? You left half a pizza, too. It just happened to mostly be crusts. I can be monumentally dense, so please explain. The crust is part of the pizza, no?
That was the whole point. I had eaten exactly as much pizza as Rachel, when we went home. I had removed each piece from the pan when I ate it, and left the crusts on my plate, like everyone. Whhen we were done, Rachel had a half pizza left to take home, and so did I.
it is not semantics. you take a slice. after a bit, you put it on your plate. eat the meat, leave the crust on the plate. why put it back in the pan, something that you've already gnawed? At the end dump your plate into the box to take home.
Deceptive language. A trick of the light. The answer depends on where you put your crust. Some people put the crusts back in the pan, especially because the plates in those artisanal joints are so small. I like the vox populi answers better.
Oh come on! You know you write it because you love it. Not saying it’s not soul crushing, and it’s not hard work. Just please don’t try and tell us you’d stop writing if you didn’t have the money to do so. You would absolutely keep writing. I’m grateful. Grateful enough to subscribe! But I’m not going to pretend I’m keeping you from starvation. You just went on a 3 country tour ffs. I haven’t left the country since 2019…
And you, like me usually, are up before 5!
No. Seldom. But usually before 6. Lexi makes sure of that.
I’m not! I’m in NZ, am a night owl (Morepork), Gene, obviously, is up all hours with writers angst. And more power to him
Karyn, can you adopt all of us who wish to leave the shithole we have become in the past 2 1/2 months?
Absolutely. Well not adopt, but you are welcome here 💞 I have a spare room
Mind you, if I was trying to sleep in his house I’d get rid of the clocks…
Word
Psssst… not sure if you noticed but Pat the Perfect liked my post. I’m fangirling hard out right now
The two herbs I could most do without, cilantro and dill, were not on your list.
I missed yesterday’s pizza post. But looking at the photo of the leftovers, I must disagree with your answer. You said you had each eaten the same amount of pizza. It appears to me that the amount (or volume, if you will) of the pizza you ate from the interior would have amounted to somewhat more than half of the entire pizza originally served to you. Of course there is no way I could really know that after the fact (or without instruments of measurement); appearances can be deceiving. But if we were to use weight as the measurement for the amount of pizza you consumed, I would be much more confident in saying that the weight of the pizza “interior” you consumed was more than the weight of the leftover crust. Sorry this analysis was so boring but at least I paid for the space.
Leaving crust is a pizza sin.
Not if you take it home and eat it later, with the dog.
Maybe “share it with the dog” would be a better way to say that.
The dog should always be eaten separately.
Accurate!
Re/ GWAR: My college roommate went on a blind date, wearing a cute white shirt, jeans, and spiffy green sandals. She returned to our digs utterly bedraggled, her hair stuck to her head in clumps, her shirt and jeans spattered in fake blood. Turns out her date had chosen to squire her to a GWAR show… There was no second date😝
You called it! Charlottesville to be exact… I think they played at Trax (RIP) that time🧌🎸
Hey, hats off to the fella for being unique — albeit a bit OTT for a blind date😉
Ahhh Trax! There's a memory!
This is a Virginia story if I every heard one! Good thing her sandals were green
1. Gene, I liked your workaround to stress the pronoun "I." I wonder if that was influenced, consciously or unconsciously, by DC's "Eye Street."
2. I was disappointed, but not surprised, by parsley's unpopularity. Supermarket parsley, especially the curly variety, is often insipid and limp. It's also overused as a garnish. Growing one's own, especially the flat-leaf variety, might change some opinions, though.
3. At your funeral, will you receive a 21-clock salute?
Though I answered “Parsley” because it has the least distinctive flavor to me, the first four are integral to preparing my Scarborough Fair chicken.
Geometrically speaking, the person who ate all of half of the pizza got significantly more pizza than the other person. By far the most pizza by area and volume is in the crust ends.
Philistine! Good pizza crust (and yours looks good) is a sublime minimalist ending to the bacchanalia that is the sauce, cheese, and toppings part. It centers the eater before the next slice; more than a simple palate cleanse, it is a paean to the craft and art of the baker who has made the whole glorious pizza possible. The crust is a must.
In my opinion (humble or not) two types of people eat pizza. and I date back to 1951 when our new neighbors introduced us to pizza. They picked up dough at a bakery just about every day and made their own. Thick. And my mother, from Texas, tried to make her own but really it was a pan of hot rolls with toppings. What did I know. I loved it. Mostly sauce and hamburger. And I still like bread and a thick pie. In my opinion, people who like thin crust are interested in toppings and not so much bead and they leave the rims intact. I like the rims. They leave a different flavor with me. But there is no accounting for taste. ENJOY!! And likely I am wrong about two types of people. Some believe that and the other type do not.
When you weer a boy, did your mother cut the crust off the bread she used to make your sandwiches? Or was there curry powder on the pizza crust?
The answer to your poll is cilantro. There can be no other.
Gene, Gene. Your answer to the pizza puzzle was Bill Clintonesque: “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘amount’ is.” You and Rachel may have eaten the same number of slices (or partial slices), but you did not eat the same amount of pizza. And, I have to say it, you had a lot of crust to give the answer you did.
In your woe-is-me plea for subscribers, we really didn’t need to hear about your prostate problems. Or as Detective Sipowicz in the old NYPD Blue series called it, his “prostrate”.
I have been writing about my prostate for YEARS. I have said it is the size of a wather balloon. Or, alternatively, a beanbag chair.
Take pride! Mine is the size of a billiard ball and twice as hard!
Was that "water balloon" or "weather balloon"?
The logical question is "why?!" Aren't penises good enough? And yes, from the usually described walnut-sized to bag of walnuts-sized.
Who is Amy? And was she with Gene and Rachel? And how do you know?
Thanks for the catch. Even Gene didn't pick that up.
He at all his slices, just half of them, leaving the crust. She ate half her slices, crust and all. I’ll give him that the amounts were roughly similar. What I’m disappointed about is the verbal legerdemain involving the amount on the pan vs the plate. I know people who leave their crusts in the pan so as not to clutter their plates, which tend to be small in tony pizza places.
Since the hair-splitting "pan" vs. "plate" distinction was so unsatisfactory, here is the solution I didn't bother to send in yesterday: Rachel had eaten half of some third person's pizza. (The set-up does NOT rule that out.) I also liked the answer about Gene dropping half of his on the floor.
Parsley, you say? You seem to have overlooked the veggie/garnish, to say nothing of superfood of the minute, watercress. I believe it may now have even replaced kale at the top of the "told-to-eat" list. Speaking of kale, just to up the produce ante are kalettes, a hybrid of kale and Brussels sprouts, assuring a steady supply of vitamins A, C, K and flatulence.
Ah yes, good ole vitamin F.
Dumn. You had pizza left. Here’s the proof: If the waiter had delivered just the non-crust center and claimed, “Hey, you ordered pizza,” you’d have been miffed. The crust is pizza.
I didn't say I had no pizza left. I said there was no pizza left in the tray. The crusts were in my plate.
“Objection, your honor. Misleading the witness.”
“Sustained.”
Am I missing something here? You left half a pizza, too. It just happened to mostly be crusts. I can be monumentally dense, so please explain. The crust is part of the pizza, no?
That was the whole point. I had eaten exactly as much pizza as Rachel, when we went home. I had removed each piece from the pan when I ate it, and left the crusts on my plate, like everyone. Whhen we were done, Rachel had a half pizza left to take home, and so did I.
So, semantics? You left the crusts on the plate instead of putting them in the pan? Then threw everything into a box to take home?
it is not semantics. you take a slice. after a bit, you put it on your plate. eat the meat, leave the crust on the plate. why put it back in the pan, something that you've already gnawed? At the end dump your plate into the box to take home.
Deceptive language. A trick of the light. The answer depends on where you put your crust. Some people put the crusts back in the pan, especially because the plates in those artisanal joints are so small. I like the vox populi answers better.
Your name anagrams to "I'm phlegm sac."
Also, He’s lip magic.