i want!!!

[Kristev]

Guess what I saw yesterday in line at work? A good parent. Yes! Her little boy had taken one of the toy cars and brought it up to the register as she was checking out, and she made him put it back. He kept whining and started to cry, and she refused to yeild. She told him he could not have it, in English and Spanish. Then she left the register for a moment, but left her older daughter there, just long enough to take the toy car back.

By the way, she was on WIC (I noticed the check) and at least half of what she was buying were . . . fresh vegetables.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

My grandparents always say people in Hell want ice water. And my mom just said no.

My mom's favorite answer to that is: Wantin' ain't gettin'.

Of course, I've been known to say people in Hell want air conditioning too. And that ain't happening no time soon either.

[Bardmaiden]

My grandparents always say people in Hell want ice water. And my mom just said no.

My mother would just turn around to me and say "I want never gets" or "we don't have the money for that" very quickly I stopped asking.

[Amina516]

those kids are going to be hellions when they get older.

Or just very, very poor.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

i want i want i want!!!
i don't understand why some parents cave every time their kid says the words "i want!!!" i had a woman today with 3 boys under 10. she bought almost $30 because her kids kept wanting things. and i had to ring her up 3 different.
first order was 2 dozen mini cookies, 4 regular size, and 3 kids "novelty" cups with soda.
then one of her kids wanted a smoothie instead.
then one of them decided he wanted an m&m cookie instead of a chewy fudge.
holy crap woman learn to say no!
those kids are going to be hellions when they get older.

And I want to put it in Megan Fox's butt. But she's recently married, and not to me.

Looks like none of us will get what we want.

Why would I want fries with popcorn?

Fries with popcorn sounds like something I'd eat. But only after putting the phone number of a cardiologist on speed dial.

[EricKei]

Fries with popcorn sounds like something I'd eat. But only after putting the phone number of a cardiologist on speed dial.

Just slightly off topic, here, but I don't feel so bad because this is a tangent anyway...Back at "DaddyJim's" pizzeria, we had out own little "not on the menu" recipes that we liked to make form time to time when the crew wanted to eat (NOTE: This is distinct from "Crew Food", aka "orders that were canceled after being made, or where the customer wasn't home")...My personal favorite was simply cheese-stix (a flattened small pie with garlic butter instead of red sauce) smothered in bacon (and sometimes onions as well).

We also had our "just about every damn meat topping in the store" pies, with names like "The Coronary" or "The Artery Clogger Deluxe". We even managed to do what every other location on the planet simultaneously managed to do, and that was to make BBQ chicken pizzas for internal consumption within zero point five days of the release of chicken strips as a side item...several years before Corporate thought of offering same as an actual pizza.

One of our weirder ones was a type of pie which -- I am almost 100% certain -- was stolen from smaller, more traditional pizza places -- the idea of taking a 14" pie, making it as usual, and then slapping out a 10" crust and laying it on top to make an ersatz calzone (albeit circular instead of folded), complete with slits in the top and melted garlic butter on top. I forgot our name for it, might anyone have the REAL name for such a concoction?

Oh yeah -- We also had the "special sixteen" -- IF someone ordered an XL (16" pie) when we had run out of (usable) 16 patties, they would get offered a "16 thin crust"....in other words, a 14" patty slapped out to 16" size...it wasn't pretty, but it did the job. Wouldn't work with more then 3-4 toppings, tho >_>

[BookstoreEscapee]

"not on the menu" recipes

I did that in college. I worked in the little campus fast-food-type place (more like short-order cook). We did milkshakes - chocolate, vanilla or black-and-white (vanilla ice cream and chocolate milk). One of my coworkers taught me to make a faux Orange Julius - basically a vanilla shake with orange juice instead of milk, a bit of vanilla extract, and sugar (I still make 'em sometimes, but without the extra sugar). My senior year we got a Friendly's ice cream station, which included Fribble mix. I would make a chocolate Fribble with a couple spoonfulls of maraschino cherries. Good stuff. (I wonder where I could find unflavored ice milk for that...) Not a recipe, but we also ate raw chocolate-chip cookies straight out of the freezer.

[Syriilord]

I never understood how you can have a medium without both a large and small. "Medium" is a relative term.

It's true that medium is relative, but it could just be that it is the medium size from the manufacturer's point of view. The company may not actually stock the small, so their smallest size would then be the "medium"

[Erin]

One of our weirder ones was a type of pie which -- I am almost 100% certain -- was stolen from smaller, more traditional pizza places -- the idea of taking a 14" pie, making it as usual, and then slapping out a 10" crust and laying it on top to make an ersatz calzone (albeit circular instead of folded), complete with slits in the top and melted garlic butter on top. I forgot our name for it, might anyone have the REAL name for such a concoction?

That's a double crust pizza here in Omaha in most of the local old timer been-around-since-the-30's Italian restaurants.

One local place does a really good hamburger and onion double crust.

Now I'm hungry for pizza from that place. I guess I know what's for dinner now.

[ExRetailDrone]

One of our weirder ones was a type of pie which -- I am almost 100% certain -- was stolen from smaller, more traditional pizza places -- the idea of taking a 14" pie, making it as usual, and then slapping out a 10" crust and laying it on top to make an ersatz calzone (albeit circular instead of folded), complete with slits in the top and melted garlic butter on top. I forgot our name for it, might anyone have the REAL name for such a concoction?

I've seen it called a stuffed pizza at a couple of chains that I have been to. It was the hubby's and my favorite from the "Take 'N Bake" pizza chain we used to go to before we moved

[EricKei]

a faux Orange Julius

Ohhh, that sounds so good >_> I haven't seen an Orange Julius stand in well over a decade.

Not a recipe, but we also ate raw chocolate-chip cookies straight out of the freezer.

Heeheehee. I don't think more than 20% of ALL cookie dough to enter my house over the years has EVER made it into the oven before being consumed ...

[BookstoreEscapee]

Ohhh, that sounds so good >_> I haven't seen an Orange Julius stand in well over a decade.

I used to always get Orange Julius at Great Adventure. They're long gone, though. It is really yummy...if you make it without the extra sugar it's more like a creamsicle. I've even done it more like an ice cream soda, when I don't feel like dealing with the blender...just OJ and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

Heeheehee. I don't think more than 20% of ALL cookie dough to enter my house over the years has EVER made it into the oven before being consumed ...

Hehe. We had Otis Spunkmeyer cookies...they came in a box of frozen dough balls. We'd get one out and break it up on a plate and eat it. Not sure which is better...frozen dough or fresh baked from the oven (because there was always at least one from a batch that didn't make it to the display case .)