|
Source: (consider it)
|
Thread: Habit, routine, or obsession?
|
Galloping Granny
Shipmate
# 13814
|
Posted
A younger friend fell about laughing when I mentioned that the Grandad and I each have a banana every day with our lunch ( it ended in fact for him when his potassium levels went up in a reaction to medication).
But don’t we fall into such habits as we age? We’ve learned what we like and so we stick to routines and don’t have to make small decisions all the time.
I like Weetbix for breakfast but I also like rolled oat porridge, so I alternate. We like doing crosswords, so we do a couple each morning while we have our coffee – I with Edam cheese on two Sesameal crackers, he with matured cheese on three Snax crackers.
An older cousin, who observes everyone and makes diagnoses from their habits, concluded from her brother’s alternation of breakfast spreads (toast with Marmite one morning and marmalade the next) that he was somewhere on the Asperger’s spectrum (for other reasons I think she may have been right).
Well, that’s okay by me. Albert Einstein, anyone? Temple Grandin? I guess there are some pretty special Aspies on the ship too.
But diagnoses apart, what odd routines do other shipmates have, older or younger?
GG
--------------------
The Kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it. Gospel of Thomas, 113
Posts: 2629 | From: Matarangi | Registered: Jun 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
I open the mailbox every time I pass it-- going in, going out, first thing in the morning, first thing coming home, every damn Sunday-- hell, I have opened the mailbox ten minutes after I took the mail in.
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
# 4544
|
Posted
Wow. I avoid the mailbox like the plague. There have been a few times when the letter carrier gave up and took everything in my stuffed mailbox back to the main office for me to pick up. Or not. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
I go to sleep most nights to the sound of You Tunes ambient rain recordings. Works like a charm. ![[Snore]](graemlins/snore.gif)
--------------------
"Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
Posts: 21377 | From: CA | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Boogie
Boogie on down!
# 13538
|
Posted
Habit is both your worst enemy (smoking, snacking, vegging in front of the TV etc etc)
And your best friend (exercise, visiting friends, good, healthy eating etc etc)
It takes 30 days to establish a new habit. I am trying to do a workout every day before my shower - slowly my brain is starting to want to do it instead of being forced!
ETA - I hate cleaning, so I have built up a good habit of cleaning the bathroom every time I get out of the bath, the kitchen sink every time I wash up etc. So I clean a LOT, but never 'do the cleaning'. I works for me!
![[Smile]](smile.gif)
[ 31. December 2014, 07:34: Message edited by: Boogie ]
--------------------
Garden. Room. Walk
Posts: 13030 | From: Boogie Wonderland | Registered: Mar 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
QLib
Bad Example
# 43
|
Posted
I don't know about odd, but I like to get up early, make a hot drink, do my yoga (15 mins), wash or shower, get half dressed (top half) and take hot drink - a whole flaskful - back to bed for (ideally) not less than half an hour of reading, surfing or tweeting. I get really cranky if I can't do this, so I guess that's a sign of ageing.
The other day, I had to catch a 5:30 train and, though I wasn't stupid enough to set the alarm that early, I was actually pleased that journey fever woke me before 4:00, so I could do my routine.
--------------------
Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
Posts: 8913 | From: Page 28 | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
lilBuddha
Shipmate
# 14333
|
Posted
I need routines in order to do routine things. If I am interrupted in the routine I will forget to do part of it. I've missed eating, brushing teeth and the like often. I've walked out the door unintentionally barefoot several times and once topless. Fortunately, it was a bit cool and I realised before getting to the car.
--------------------
I put on my rockin' shoes in the morning
Hallellou, hallellou
Posts: 17627 | From: the round earth's imagined corners | Registered: Dec 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Ad Orientem
Shipmate
# 17574
|
Posted
I don't like odd sets of things. For instance my pool cues and case all have to be the same make. I always eat a roast dinner and English breakfast the same way. The roast dinner I also east the greens first and then the meat, potatoes and Yorkshire pud I divide up so that I have a bit of each in every fork full. With the breakfast, no cutting up into little bits and mixing up. I also build a barrier either with the sausage or toast crust to stop the bean juice getting on the egg.
Posts: 2606 | From: Finland | Registered: Feb 2013
| IP: Logged
|
|
Pre-cambrian
Shipmate
# 2055
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Ad Orientem:
With the breakfast, no cutting up into little bits and mixing up. I also build a barrier either with the sausage or toast crust to stop the bean juice getting on the egg.
I'm another one not keen on the mixing of juices ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) . Until Mum gave up imposing gravy on me, my Sunday lunch plate would have a row of roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings round the rim escaping from the rising tide.
--------------------
"We cannot leave the appointment of Bishops to the Holy Ghost, because no one is confident that the Holy Ghost would understand what makes a good Church of England bishop."
Posts: 2314 | From: Croydon | Registered: Dec 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
|
Posted
I always have to count up to 10 before I do anything. Not 9 or 7 but 10 - just the right number. I guess it started because I took literally the advice to 'count up to 10' before doing or saying anything rash, but it soon became my favourite number and that's why I do it now. It's a very satisfying number and helps me to get ready.
Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Galloping Granny
Shipmate
# 13814
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by crunt:
I habitually eat all the fries before I start on my burger (or steak).
That's logical. Fries are delicious hot and yukky cold, and they cool quickly.
There are two ways of eating mince/beans/egg on a square slice of toast. I cut the toast in to strips and then cut each strip into several pieces as I eat it. The Grandad starts by cutting and eating each corner. A survey taken at a conference found a group equally divided.
GG
--------------------
The Kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it. Gospel of Thomas, 113
Posts: 2629 | From: Matarangi | Registered: Jun 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leorning Cniht
Shipmate
# 17564
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
There are two ways of eating mince/beans/egg on a square slice of toast.
I don't do either of those. I cut a mouthful-sized square from a corner, and eat it. Then I cut another mouthful adjacent to the first, and continue until the toast is consumed. It would never occur to me to either eat all four corners before the middle or to make a complete cut across the toast and then chop the slice up.
Posts: 5026 | From: USA | Registered: Feb 2013
| IP: Logged
|
|
Galloping Granny
Shipmate
# 13814
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
quote:
Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
There are two ways of eating mince/beans/egg on a square slice of toast.
I don't do either of those. I cut a mouthful-sized square from a corner, and eat it. Then I cut another mouthful adjacent to the first, and continue until the toast is consumed. It would never occur to me to either eat all four corners before the middle or to make a complete cut across the toast and then chop the slice up.
Things you learn on the ship!
GG
--------------------
The Kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it. Gospel of Thomas, 113
Posts: 2629 | From: Matarangi | Registered: Jun 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by crunt:
I habitually eat all the fries before I start on my burger (or steak).
Same here! Slightly cold burger is easier to endure than cold fries. They must be hot and crispy.
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
If I'm eating an egg on toast, I try and cut it so that each piece of toast has a more-or-less equally-sized piece of egg on top.
OCD, moi? ![[Paranoid]](graemlins/paranoid.gif)
PS And whenever D. and I are eating together, we do (or try to do) a Guardian crossword ... ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Ariel
Shipmate
# 58
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
There are two ways of eating mince/beans/egg on a square slice of toast.
There are probably as many approaches to beans on toast as there are people. You've overlooked random triangles, and the getting-to-grips approach by serving beans and toast separately, and tearing pieces off the toast to mop up the beans and juice. There's also folding the slice or fragment of toast to make an impromptu, if messy, sandwich with bean filling.
When beans get boring, a sprinkle of Worcester sauce, or black pepper, or chilli powder, or grated cheese will liven them up.
Two days of the same food in succession is usually enough for me - after that I lose interest and remainders then sit there in the fridge until they grow old enough to be thrown out.
Posts: 25445 | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
bib
Shipmate
# 13074
|
Posted
If I see a single word printed in front of me such as the word heaven(above) or on the tv screen, I frequently mentally divide the word into equal halves where they exist or identify the middle letter in an odd number of letters. I realise this is obsessive and bizarre, but I do this subconsciously and then suddenly realise what I'm doing. I am more likely to do this when I'm feeling stressed.
--------------------
"My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring"
Posts: 1307 | From: Australia | Registered: Oct 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
Heavenly Anarchist
Shipmate
# 13313
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by bib:
If I see a single word printed in front of me such as the word heaven(above) or on the tv screen, I frequently mentally divide the word into equal halves where they exist or identify the middle letter in an odd number of letters. I realise this is obsessive and bizarre, but I do this subconsciously and then suddenly realise what I'm doing. I am more likely to do this when I'm feeling stressed.
I did something similar to this as child, counting letters, I've always said it was the reason I was top of the class at spelling. I still count the number of letters subconsciously in new words I come across.
--------------------
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams
Dog Activity Monitor
My shop
Posts: 2831 | From: Trumpington | Registered: Jan 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
lily pad
Shipmate
# 11456
|
Posted
I have cereal or oatmeal porridge for breakfast every day. But as today was deemed a "special day", I had poached eggs on toast. The toast was cut in half and in half again and then each of those were cut to make 16 equal squares with egg on each. In reading this thread, I realized that I absolutely always cut the toast like that when I am at home but never when I have it out at a restaurant.
Now that I have a dog, she gets one of the squares. She loves eggs and toast!
--------------------
Sloppiness is not caring. Fussiness is caring about the wrong things. With thanks to Adeodatus!
Posts: 2468 | From: Truly Canadian | Registered: May 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kitten
Shipmate
# 1179
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by bib:
If I see a single word printed in front of me such as the word heaven(above) or on the tv screen, I frequently mentally divide the word into equal halves where they exist or identify the middle letter in an odd number of letters. I realise this is obsessive and bizarre, but I do this subconsciously and then suddenly realise what I'm doing. I am more likely to do this when I'm feeling stressed.
I thought that was just me
--------------------
Maius intra qua extra
Never accept a ride from a stranger, unless they are in a big blue box
Posts: 2330 | From: Carmarthenshire | Registered: Aug 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Aravis
Shipmate
# 13824
|
Posted
I don't like stepping unevenly on paving slabs. I'm ok with stepping on the cracks, but I need to step on the same number of cracks with my right foot and with my left foot, or step in the centre. If I step on cracks unevenly the soles of my feet start to feel twitchy and odd!
I can't think of any strange food habits but probably have some.
Posts: 689 | From: S Wales | Registered: Jun 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
# 12799
|
Posted
Any slightly unfamiliar word that ends with a vowel has to be read backwards to see if it makes any more sense that way.
I'm very good with codes...
--------------------
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Heraclitus
Posts: 3126 | From: A thin place. | Registered: Jul 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
Chorister
Completely Frocked
# 473
|
Posted
Eating all the chocolate off a chocolate covered biscuit or wafer, before eating the inside.
Tying the plastic wrapper in a knot, no matter how small. Folding the paper wrapper extremely neatly to show just the front picture, with the rest tucked in behind, as if a flat Christmas present.
--------------------
Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.
Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Eating all the chocolate off a chocolate covered biscuit or wafer, before eating the inside.
.
Twix.
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
|
|
Drifting Star
Drifting against the wind
# 12799
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Eating all the chocolate off a chocolate covered biscuit or wafer, before eating the inside.
.
Twix.
I do this with Creme Eggs.
Not in polite company, obviously.
--------------------
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Heraclitus
Posts: 3126 | From: A thin place. | Registered: Jul 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
balaam
Making an ass of myself
# 4543
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Drifting Star:
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Eating all the chocolate off a chocolate covered biscuit or wafer, before eating the inside.
.
Twix.
I do this with Creme Eggs.
Not in polite company, obviously.
Impolite company is much more fun.
New style car number plates are no good, I hates them. I used to try to work out mathematical connections between the numbers on the plates of passing cars.
--------------------
Last ever sig ...
blog
Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
To those of you who have said you divide words in half or count letters, are you all cruciverbalists?
I'm sure I notice word-lengths and where the centres are more than I would if I didn't do cryptic crossword-puzzles.
[tangent ON]
Balaam, I quite agree with you about the new-style number-plates - not because I can't play mathematical games with them, but because they messed about with the regional letters and they no longer mean anything.
[/tangent OFF]
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Galloping Granny
Shipmate
# 13814
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Eating all the chocolate off a chocolate covered biscuit or wafer, before eating the inside.
Unlike my daughter, who would lick all the chocolate off choc-coated almonds, and then give me the almonds.
GG
--------------------
The Kingdom of Heaven is spread upon the earth, and men do not see it. Gospel of Thomas, 113
Posts: 2629 | From: Matarangi | Registered: Jun 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
# 2522
|
Posted
Hee. Sounds like my little students with cupcakes. They snorf off the frosting and leave the untouched cake behind,
Unlike me-- I gently break the cupcake top off, set it aside, eat the cake, then savor the creamy frosting part last. I have a big thnig about saving the best stuff for last.
--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leorning Cniht
Shipmate
# 17564
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Hee. Sounds like my little students with cupcakes. They snorf off the frosting and leave the untouched cake behind,
A small child not unrelated to me will butter a cracker (Carr's Water Biscuit or similar), lick off the butter, and present the "cleaned" cracker for re-buttering. The fact that this has never happened doesn't seem to prevent the hopeful wet cracker presentation.
Posts: 5026 | From: USA | Registered: Feb 2013
| IP: Logged
|
|
bib
Shipmate
# 13074
|
Posted
Yes Piglet, I am a fanatical cruciverbalist. I love cryptic crosswords and am also a member of the Australian Crossword Club. The members of that are as crazy as I am. I don't know if the letter counting came before the crosswords or if doing the puzzles caused my strange counting behaviour.
--------------------
"My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, accept the praise I bring"
Posts: 1307 | From: Australia | Registered: Oct 2007
| IP: Logged
|
|
The Machine Elf
Irregular polytope
# 1622
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
[tangent ON]
Balaam, I quite agree with you about the new-style number-plates - not because I can't play mathematical games with them, but because they messed about with the regional letters and they no longer mean anything.
[/tangent OFF]
They still give the region of origin, and certainly the ones I was most familiar with from the '70s (K-something for Luton) hasn't changed.
--------------------
Elves of any kind are strange folk.
Posts: 1298 | From: the edge of the deep green sea | Registered: Oct 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
no prophet's flag is set so...
Proceed to see sea
# 15560
|
Posted
Snorfing and crossword puzzles, good heavens! I specifically try violate some of these habitual obsessions when detected in others. Like eating pizza slices by the non-pointy end and randomly cutting out a trapezoidal-shaped piece of cake from the middle of it.
--------------------
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.
\_(ツ)_/
Posts: 11498 | From: Treaty 6 territory in the nonexistant Province of Buffalo, Canada ↄ⃝' | Registered: Mar 2010
| IP: Logged
|
|
Leorning Cniht
Shipmate
# 17564
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
randomly cutting out a trapezoidal-shaped piece of cake from the middle of it.
Cakes, clearly, should have slices cut through the middle, so you can press the two halves back together and not get stale bits.
Unless you're going to eat the whole lot in one go, of course, but even then, the wedge is a frightfully unhelpful shape for a piece of cake.
Posts: 5026 | From: USA | Registered: Feb 2013
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by The Machine Elf:
... the ones I was most familiar with from the '70s (K-something for Luton) hasn't changed.
They've taken BS away from Orkney (and actually lumped the whole of Inverness-and-all-points-north into just two sets of letters, neither of which was the original set), which is the work of Satan*.
We always felt a little thrill of "we're nearly home" excitement when driving up the A9 and seeing the first car with a BS registration (usually on a car coming from the ferry the other way), and that's all but gone, except for a few "cherished" numbers. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Sorry - it's a pet peeve of mine. Rant over.
* Actually it was the work of Tony Blair, which amounts to the same thing ... ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Baptist Trainfan
Shipmate
# 15128
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
Actually it was the work of Tony Blair, which amounts to the same thing ...
I doubt if he did it unaided.
[ 03. January 2015, 07:27: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
Posts: 9750 | From: The other side of the Severn | Registered: Sep 2009
| IP: Logged
|
|
Adam.
Like as the
# 4991
|
Posted
Apparently I'm more of a creature of habit by nature than by design. My watch strap recently broke so I though, given I'd had this one since summer '09, I might as well get a new watch and donate the old one to St. Vincent's. I went to Amazon to pick out a new one and, after about five minutes of browsing, picked out the watch I thought would be perfect. It turned out to be the exact watch I was about to get rid of.
I overruled my boring subconscious, though, and bought it with a different color of face.
--------------------
Ave Crux, Spes Unica!
Preaching blog
Posts: 8164 | From: Notre Dame, IN | Registered: Sep 2003
| IP: Logged
|
|
Hugal
Shipmate
# 2734
|
Posted
My mum is very dyslexic but it was not picked up at all. I would read the titles and any other information she needed to watch a TV programme. I still read the TV now. My wife (Gill H on the Ship) goes so long before reminding me she can read. As I am moderatly dyslexic myself it helps me anyway
--------------------
I have never done this trick in these trousers before.
Posts: 1887 | From: london | Registered: Apr 2002
| IP: Logged
|
|
Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
# 1654
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Eating all the chocolate off a chocolate covered biscuit or wafer, before eating the inside.
quote:
Originally posted by Drifting Star:
I do this with Creme Eggs.
much easier to do when you put the creme egg in the fridge for a while first, to solidify the fondant
--------------------
- insert randomly chosen, potentially Deep and Meaningful™ song lyrics here -
Posts: 9841 | From: further up the Hill | Registered: Nov 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
ArachnidinElmet
Shipmate
# 17346
|
Posted
Re: watching TV. Having spent most of my formative years living with my deaf Granddad, I habitually watch the telly with the subtitles on. Un-subtitled programmes look odd to me now, but it a useful skill for use with foreign language series.
Also at the end of a meal, a little of each food has to be kept back for the perfect final forkful.
All chocolate bars and biscuits should be eaten in their separate component parts. They just taste better and think of the calories you're working off. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
--------------------
'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
Posts: 1887 | From: the rhubarb triangle | Registered: Sep 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Gill H
Shipmate
# 68
|
Posted
I can't think of many myself - I hate routine and am very bad at establishing good ones!
But I have noticed that Hugal eats all of one component of his meal at once, eg all the meat, then all the potatoes, then all the veg etc.
I tend to alternate bites of different items - for me, part of the point of the meal is how they taste together, and I get bored otherwise! I have noticed, though, that I tend to save one mouthful of my favourite item for last.
--------------------
*sigh* We can’t all be Alan Cresswell.
- Lyda Rose
Posts: 9313 | From: London | Registered: May 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
The Intrepid Mrs S
Shipmate
# 17002
|
Posted
Re car number plates, I like to try and make the shortest possible word containing all the letters in a registration - they don't have to be in order, but it's a bonus if they are
Mrs. S - another cruciverbalist, but preferring the Telegraph to the Grauniad
--------------------
Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
Posts: 1464 | From: Neither here nor there | Registered: Mar 2012
| IP: Logged
|
|
Sioni Sais
Shipmate
# 5713
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Wet Kipper:
quote:
Originally posted by Chorister:
Eating all the chocolate off a chocolate covered biscuit or wafer, before eating the inside.
quote:
Originally posted by Drifting Star:
I do this with Creme Eggs.
much easier to do when you put the creme egg in the fridge for a while first, to solidify the fondant
I do like Mars bar out of the fridge. Not for too long, but enough to slice well.
--------------------
"He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor"
(Paul Sinha, BBC)
Posts: 24276 | From: Newport, Wales | Registered: Apr 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Heavenly Anarchist
Shipmate
# 13313
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Gill H:
I can't think of many myself - I hate routine and am very bad at establishing good ones!
But I have noticed that Hugal eats all of one component of his meal at once, eg all the meat, then all the potatoes, then all the veg etc.
I tend to alternate bites of different items - for me, part of the point of the meal is how they taste together, and I get bored otherwise! I have noticed, though, that I tend to save one mouthful of my favourite item for last.
I was brought up in a large household (joint youngest of 8 children) and the advisable way of eating a roast dinner was always all the meat, then potatoes and then veg. This was because if you did not eat quickly enough older brothers who had finished would steal what was on your plate, so get the best bits eaten fast.
Nowadays I would save a piece of my favourite for last.
--------------------
'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams
Dog Activity Monitor
My shop
Posts: 2831 | From: Trumpington | Registered: Jan 2008
| IP: Logged
|
|
Piglet
Islander
# 11803
|
Posted
I'm another "leave the best bits till last"* one; if I'm eating a steak and it has a layer of fat on it, I'll cut off the fat** and eat it first with a bit of potato, then I've got the lean meat to look forward to.
For the rest: a bit of meat, a bit of potato and a bit of veggie in each forkful.
* or possibly more accurately, "get the bits I like least out of the way".
** When I lived at home, I'd cut off the fat and give it to my dad, who liked it. As he's nearly 90, it doesn't seem to have done him any harm ...
--------------------
I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006
| IP: Logged
|
|
Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
# 619
|
Posted
Or cut off the fat beforehand and render in the pan until crisp. Pour off all but the lightest slick in which to fry the steak. Crispy bits are cook's treat.
Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001
| IP: Logged
|
|
marzipan
Shipmate
# 9442
|
Posted
Chocolatey biscuit bars are designed to be eaten that way, aren't they? That's why there's a thick enough bit of chocolate around the outside to get your teeth into. Clubs used to be good for that, and Trios. Not to mention the Official Way to Open a Kitkat (thumbnail down the foil between the two fingers, and snap it open). We recently found some dark chocolate kitkats which still had proper paper and foil wrappers (instead of the plasticy foil they use on the milk ones) and enjoyed the opening ritual.
--------------------
formerly cheesymarzipan.
Now containing 50% less cheese
Posts: 917 | From: nowhere in particular | Registered: May 2005
| IP: Logged
|
|
Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
# 5521
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Piglet:
We always felt a little thrill of "we're nearly home" excitement when driving up the A9 and seeing the first car with a BS registration (usually on a car coming from the ferry the other way), and that's all but gone, except for a few "cherished" numbers.
New York State used to use letters in the license plate to identify the city, town or county in which the car was registered -- I don't know if they still do.
I once lived in a well-known resort town in upstate New York whose economy was heavily reliant on the tourist trade. The police would not issue parking tickets to cars whose license plates identified the owners as out-of-towners -- rather, they would issue a polite warning not to park illegally.
Saved me a lot of money, as my license plate was still from the original county of issue.
As for habits -- each time I visit a restaurant, I order the same dish as I had ordered there before.
[ 05. January 2015, 20:33: Message edited by: Amanda B. Reckondwythe ]
--------------------
"I take prayer too seriously to use it as an excuse for avoiding work and responsibility." -- The Revd Martin Luther King Jr.
Posts: 10542 | From: The Great Southwest | Registered: Feb 2004
| IP: Logged
|
|
Ad Orientem
Shipmate
# 17574
|
Posted
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
quote:
Originally posted by crunt:
I habitually eat all the fries before I start on my burger (or steak).
Same here! Slightly cold burger is easier to endure than cold fries. They must be hot and crispy.
You've got to leave some chips so that you have something to mop up all the juices from the steak. Or you could use bread. Or even better make a chip butty and mop the juices up with that.
Posts: 2606 | From: Finland | Registered: Feb 2013
| IP: Logged
|
|
Printer-friendly view
