they tasted good because theywere the wrong shape. Heâd have to ask Sally how to get them to stay round.
But they tasted fine to him, and there was a whole pile of mashed potatoes. Heâd ask Sally how to get the lumps out of the potatoes, too.
Deet looked for quotations about cooking. Lots more quotations on food than on housework.
We each day dig our graves with our teeth.
âSAMUEL SMILES
Absolutely. Just what heâd been thinking. All that fat and sugar. And double hamburgers and giant bags of French fries. All those fat people in Kmart, sucking on big Slurpees as they stumbled along behind shopping carts, all the exercise they were going to get in a week.
I never see any home cooking. All I get is fancy stuff.
âPRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH
That was the Queen of Englandâs husband. Deet thought about that for a minute. He didnât knowenough about fancy food to decide if the duke was missing anything or not. But if mashed potatoes was home cooking, he did feel sorry for the duke. Deet could have lived on mashed potatoes.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
âBRILLAT-SAVARIN
That was a good one. But it wasnât as easy to write about as it had looked, because Deet found he didnât really know that much about food. He hadnât thought about all the different ways that people eat, and it took some time to think it out. There was hardly time to do his civics when he was finished.
If you were a vegetarian and ate only plants and things you donât have to kill an animal to get, like milk and eggs, this guy would say you were a kind person, a person who cared as much about animals as about himself.
Or maybe it just means that you think animal fat is the thing that causes heart attacks and soyou eat this way to protect yourself. So you would be self-protective, not kind.
If you ate nothing but Hostess Twinkies, like Donny Allen in our class, that would mean youâre kind of a baby, really, wouldnât it? All sugar, and not even having to chew hard.
Or if you eat the same things over and over, like my grandma and grandpa, it probably means youâre stuck in a rut. My dad says when he was little they even had a schedule: chicken on Sunday, baked beans and hot dogs on Friday, and so on. Thatâs weird.
Thereâs our friend Sally, whoâs just the opposite. Sheâs always trying something new, usually from some foreign country, like Greece or India. So Sally would be the opposite of stuck in a rut. Adventurous, I guess youâd say.
And Sally says lots of times her experiment is a failure, and she and her husband have to go out and get a hamburger! So I guess youâd say theyâre not tight about money, either, because it costs a lot to pay for two meals when it was supposed tobe only one. If you were stingy, youâd make only things you knew you could eat.
My mom fixed things she thought of at the last minute, and there was always something she didnât have, so Iâd always have to run down to Sallyâs to borrow it. So I guess youâd say the way we ate showed that nobody was thinking ahead.
If you eat only fancy stuff, like a duke, it probably means youâre rich. And if you eat only stuff from the supermarket deli, like those guys you see lined up there every night, you are probably very busy and donât have a wife to cook. Or maybe youâre not busy, but just lazy. Or maybe youâre married, but your wife canât cook.
Iâll have to think about this quotation some more, because I really havenât paid much attention to how other people eat.
His schedule wasnât working out so well, because heâd underestimated the amount of time it would take to get the girls to bed. Heâd have to be more flexible, he saw. So that night he washed the dishes after hefinished his homework. Before he made their lunches for school, he washed the girlsâ lunch boxes with bleach.
But they tasted fine to him, and there was a whole pile of mashed potatoes. Heâd ask Sally how to get the lumps out of the potatoes, too.
Deet looked for quotations about cooking. Lots more quotations on food than on housework.
We each day dig our graves with our teeth.
âSAMUEL SMILES
Absolutely. Just what heâd been thinking. All that fat and sugar. And double hamburgers and giant bags of French fries. All those fat people in Kmart, sucking on big Slurpees as they stumbled along behind shopping carts, all the exercise they were going to get in a week.
I never see any home cooking. All I get is fancy stuff.
âPRINCE PHILIP, DUKE OF EDINBURGH
That was the Queen of Englandâs husband. Deet thought about that for a minute. He didnât knowenough about fancy food to decide if the duke was missing anything or not. But if mashed potatoes was home cooking, he did feel sorry for the duke. Deet could have lived on mashed potatoes.
Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.
âBRILLAT-SAVARIN
That was a good one. But it wasnât as easy to write about as it had looked, because Deet found he didnât really know that much about food. He hadnât thought about all the different ways that people eat, and it took some time to think it out. There was hardly time to do his civics when he was finished.
If you were a vegetarian and ate only plants and things you donât have to kill an animal to get, like milk and eggs, this guy would say you were a kind person, a person who cared as much about animals as about himself.
Or maybe it just means that you think animal fat is the thing that causes heart attacks and soyou eat this way to protect yourself. So you would be self-protective, not kind.
If you ate nothing but Hostess Twinkies, like Donny Allen in our class, that would mean youâre kind of a baby, really, wouldnât it? All sugar, and not even having to chew hard.
Or if you eat the same things over and over, like my grandma and grandpa, it probably means youâre stuck in a rut. My dad says when he was little they even had a schedule: chicken on Sunday, baked beans and hot dogs on Friday, and so on. Thatâs weird.
Thereâs our friend Sally, whoâs just the opposite. Sheâs always trying something new, usually from some foreign country, like Greece or India. So Sally would be the opposite of stuck in a rut. Adventurous, I guess youâd say.
And Sally says lots of times her experiment is a failure, and she and her husband have to go out and get a hamburger! So I guess youâd say theyâre not tight about money, either, because it costs a lot to pay for two meals when it was supposed tobe only one. If you were stingy, youâd make only things you knew you could eat.
My mom fixed things she thought of at the last minute, and there was always something she didnât have, so Iâd always have to run down to Sallyâs to borrow it. So I guess youâd say the way we ate showed that nobody was thinking ahead.
If you eat only fancy stuff, like a duke, it probably means youâre rich. And if you eat only stuff from the supermarket deli, like those guys you see lined up there every night, you are probably very busy and donât have a wife to cook. Or maybe youâre not busy, but just lazy. Or maybe youâre married, but your wife canât cook.
Iâll have to think about this quotation some more, because I really havenât paid much attention to how other people eat.
His schedule wasnât working out so well, because heâd underestimated the amount of time it would take to get the girls to bed. Heâd have to be more flexible, he saw. So that night he washed the dishes after hefinished his homework. Before he made their lunches for school, he washed the girlsâ lunch boxes with bleach.
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