{"id":981,"date":"2009-10-15T16:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T23:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=981"},"modified":"2009-10-15T16:49:02","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T23:49:02","slug":"dan-vs-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=981","title":{"rendered":"Dan vs. Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was an IM exchange from several months ago that I’ve just learned my wife not only saved, but passed around to friends.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kat: so tonight for dinner, chicken and rice and grilled zucchini<\/p>\n

Dan: two out of three ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bad. gonna grill on the panini?<\/p>\n

Kat: you just have to try it, yep<\/p>\n

Dan: has zucchini changed in some major way since the last time I tried it? Because I have never, ever liked zucchini.<\/p>\n

Kat: when did you last try it?<\/p>\n

Dan: cucumbers, sometimes I have talked myself into them. Zucchini smells bad to me and tastes bad to me. I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even consider zucchini an option<\/p>\n

Kat: try a small piece, if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like it I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bug you again<\/p>\n

Dan: you said that last time<\/p>\n

Kat: then I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bug you til I forget and bug you<\/p>\n

Dan: in Encyclopedia Amrich, zucchini is notable for being what Derek Smalls stuffed down his trousers and little else. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In a culinary context, zucchini is treated as a vegetable, which means it is usually cooked and presented as a savory dish or accompaniment. Botanically, however, the zucchini is an immature fruit, being the swollen ovary of the female zucchini flower.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d OMG<\/p>\n

Kat: it makes great bread<\/p>\n

Dan: I am not interested in eating swollen ovaries<\/p>\n

Kat: you are such a baby!<\/p>\n

Dan: just because I choose to research vegetables to understand them and perhaps make them MORE appealing does not mean I am a baby<\/p>\n

Kat: you eat the flesh of animals, but are squemish about veggies<\/p>\n

Dan: I recall my parents having fried zucchini and\/or italian dishes with zucchini. Because the animals are tasty. I will try it. Again.<\/p>\n

Kat: that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all I ask<\/p>\n

Dan: and perhaps this time we will mark the date so it can be remembered as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the last time you tried this\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Kat: how come you have no memory of what I tell you, but food you remember?<\/p>\n

Dan: Because your voice is melodious, and I get wooed by your siren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s call, but zucchini is traumatic and I weep<\/p>\n

Kat: If I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think it is very tasty I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have you try it<\/p>\n

Dan: wow, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s as close to a guarantee. What is it supposed to taste like, besides hot, which is not a flavor but a sensation<\/p>\n

Kat: squash<\/p>\n

Dan: see, I hate squash smells too. I was actually thinking \u00e2\u20ac\u0153well at least it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not squash\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201d not kidding<\/p>\n

Kat: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a dense buttery cucumber<\/p>\n

Dan: but cucumbers are interesting because, like carrots, they are crisp and light, and if you recall you actually got me eating raw carrots.<\/p>\n

Kat: true<\/p>\n

Dan: I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t love them but I can eat them now and sometimes even CHOOSE to so we have raw carrots and lettuce\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inching its way toward a salad. If I can just get over the tomato issue.
\ndress it up with garbanzo beans (another Kat victory) and a few sprouts (which you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like) and maybe a little feta as a reward for eating a salad in the first place.<\/p>\n

Kat: lol<\/p>\n

Dan: so why fuck that up by grilling squashesque vegetables? but doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it just make them hot and mushy?<\/p>\n

Kat: Cause I like them and everything isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t about you<\/p>\n

Dan: lol\u00e2\u20ac\u201dvery little is about me but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just pointing out that you were on a path to progress, and this is a weird detour. sadly I find no recipes online that contian both the words \u00e2\u20ac\u0153zucchini\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153tequila\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Kat: I can dip it in tequila for you<\/p>\n

Dan: that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a waste of good tequila<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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