salad con larinos
Once or twice per week, my friend, Jon, and I eat a D2 lunch, Virginia Tech’s Dining Program’s supposed claim to fame. Honestly, the D2 vegetarian selection is respectable and the occasional immaculate concoction will emerge from the all-you-care-to-eat mix.
Today, I found some sweet potato fries and Waldorf salad, both of which my past D2 vegetarian experiences were not familiar with. The Waldorf salad was interesting - I had heard of it before but had never given it a chance. I thought the yogurt in the salad was interesting… strangely not tasting like yogurt.
So, I chance to look up Waldorf salad on my Dashboard dictionary widget, and I discover that it is “a salad made from apples, walnuts, celery, and mayonnaise”. Mayonnaise? Really, wouldn’t it taste so much better with a very light amount of yogurt substituting for that lard? Perhaps I could remix Waldorf salad in the near future in order to clear my conscience of the sour taste. Trying to imagine a voluntary consumption of mayonnaise is borderline horrific.
Once you see that jar of fat in high school Phys.Ed & Health, you’ll think differently about mayonnaise.
To return my diet to normalcy, tonight I will whip together the most plain vegetable soup I could conceivably assemble. How sweet it is.
December 12th, 2006 at 12:50 am
I’ve seen that jar of fat and I still make sure both pieces of my sandwich bread are covered in that beautiful tasty soybean oil.
So, I chance to look up lard in the Oxford English Dictionary, and I discover that it is…
1. The fat of a swine
2. The internal fat of the abdomen of a swine
3. a fat person
Also, in the 1997 Addition Series:
1. lard-ass: slang (orig. N. Amer.), (a term of abuse for) a person who has large buttocks or is fat (especially when attributed to laziness)
If you’d like that used in a sentence OED supplies that too - “How can you just..surrender Easley [House] to that lard-assed bitch down there.”
So stop slandering my wonderful Mayo, lard-ass.
December 12th, 2006 at 12:51 am
Ugh, no markdown in the comments?
December 12th, 2006 at 1:24 am
No, I would rather manage them manually since I always forget to activate my spam filter. Maybe over winter break I will look into that.
Until then, enjoy that ridiculous thing you call a sandwich.