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Weird. Kid B, a 6-year-old girl, saw the picture of the octopus hot dog and asked "Can I have that T-shirt?" I said, that's not a T-shirt, hon, that's food," and she starts hopping like a brewer and screaming "I want octopus hot dogs! I want octopus hot dogs!" Well, I can do that. But why'd she think it was a T-shirt?
And wasn't it good I wasn't scrolled down to that Masagi Glass Vibrator?
Oh, dang. I was hoping for cheesy potatoes. I love that dish so much that I requested my next birthday cake be a dish of cheesy potatoes with candles stuck in it. I know it's a big plate of heart attack, but ohhhhh it's so yummy.
it's okay. i'm glad to have been in the running.
however, i made things a little unclear....
you mix all the shit in ANOTHER bowl and then press it into the pan. 
sorry!
oh. i hate that the sad face looks like a mad face on haloscan. i'm not angry (as my grandma says: only dogs get mad, people get angry!).
"It's not nasty"
That's gotta be the best three-word food review, ever.
That is an exact quote.
You know what else is good?
Two ineptly fried eggs mashed into a bowl of instant mashed potatoes (the potatoes can be flavored if you want--it will make up for the utter lack of flavor in the anemic store-brand eggs). Add butter, salt, and pepper.
I feel kinda dirty, now.
I promise I'll try to post. I was going to, I swear, but in describing the day to my mom, I started laughing again. I laughed so hard trying to get the words out that I had to pull out the Albuterol and take a hit.
Okay, the Rapist's Rights conversation wasn't funny, but the rest of the day rocked.
I can't believe you ate so much beige and yellow food at once. You might as well have included that "Yellow meal". =)
Sounds like quite the... interesting... food experience.
As a life long Picky Eater, I just have to say, that all looks absolutely hurl-o-riffic. Except maybe the Cheesy Potatoes.
Okay -- a repost of the top three, right in a row, is in order for us to add to our receipe files!
We had Pancake Night just a few nights ago. Thank God for pancake night.
I love the cat tie-breaker.
I'm going to go fuck my way to fitness now (but since I'm a loser rather than a winner, I'll just have to figure out how on my own...)
oh, thank you! this was the funniest food contest ever! [i was planning hot dog night tonight, for the 5 year old nephew currently staying with us, and WOW! will he be a happy camper.]
I'm glad smussyolay clued you in, b/c I was gonna say that my version got mixed in a separate bowl. I imagine you had clean-up issues even though you greased the pan.
Also, rather than melting the butter and then just having it congeal on top of the frozen hash browns, just cube it really small and mix it up with the rest of the stuff. Trust me, you'll get good distribution, and it will melt.
The best thing in the world for mixing up this dish is a Kitchenmajig. No, I don't know where you can get one; my mom gave me mine 22 years ago when I got married because she knew I'd steal hers otherwise. I lifted my favorite paring knife from her kitchen the minute I left for college.
The Kitchenmajig also works for mixing up meatloaf for those of you who dislike sticking your fingers in cold, raw meat and eggs.
Oh, spiritrover, they've got special computer printer paper now that you can use to make your own iron-on transfers. So give Kid B her very own designer t-shirt to wear while she eats her Octopus hot dogs. If Flea will send you a print-out worthy copy of the pic.
Reminds me of the time I really steamed my baby sister -- she was up here in Nellyville looking at Big, Expensive Private U. That Sounds Like It Should Be In Another State, and I took her to the Art Museum, which is practically next door. In the Contemporary wing, I stood in front of a whole wall of modern paintings and pronounced, "Y'know, those'd all make great t-shirts!" just to watch her have a mild case of apoplexy. The artsy-types are so damn pretentious at that age... (Been there myself.) Yeah, I know, there's no challenge in someone who sets off that easily. But it was my kid sister; I was honor-bound to do so. They'd take away my Oldest Sister licence otherwise.
For quick and embarrassing food, it is hard to beat oatmeal, the three-minute variety, with either vanilla ice cream or chocolate sauce or, as I made it today, chocolate chips. This is yet another example of "if-you-put-enough-stuff-in-it-anything-is-edible" food.
Also, Craig R. was not truthful with you about the actual quick meal that he most frequently makes, which is ramen egg drop, or the second most frequent quick meal, which is salad made of iceberg lettuce with, let's see, creamy French dressing, raisins, cubed ham, cubed cheese, bacon bits (real or fake), apple chunks, croutons, grapes (sometimes) and anything else that does not run away first. You can kind of see the iceberg at the bottom of the bowl, cowering under all the extras that it is meant to hold up under but does not. God-awful.
"it needs salt and hot sauce"
Okay, how did my father get into your food tasting day?
More the hot sauce than the salt - I think Tabasco was probably one of the first brandnames I recognised as a small child.
OK, the salad-thing sounds nasty, but ramen egg-drop soup is one of my favorite comfort foods. Do you let the egg retain its integrity, or do you stir it into the noodles?
Shoot, Flea, you didn't write how you had to keep doling out ice cubes to one of your moppets because his mouth was burning. I vaguely recall being hunched over on the stepstool when you asked him why he "drank hot sauce?"
I think it came to all three of us at once -- he'd finished Neighbor's plate of Jackpot Caterole, which Neighbor had doused with hot sauce. Poor kiddo.
I'm not allowed to make the one-skillet meal. Hmmph.
However, yes, I will admit to the ramen egg-drop soup. Sometimes I stir up the egg so you get shreadded yolk as well as shredded whites, and sometimes I don't, which gives you shreadded whites and huge orange lunps of well-cooked yolk.
And, for the salad, you left out the tomatoes.
And, at 30+ minutes, the skillet meal is nowhere near the speed of either the raman egg-drop or the salad. (What takes it out of the "fast food" category is that you have to actually Be A Responsible Cook and make sure the chicken is really cooked)
(However, I am certain that *my* one-skillet would have been the bigger hit. So *there*) :}
BTW, I'm totally making the Chicken Pot Pie later this week -- not with Veg-All, because DH can't have peas or lima beans -- and I'm actually looking foward to eating it.
Oh, and Jacob asked for Octopus dogs for dinner last night. The nanny was, understandably, really confused.
I am deeply honored...my laziness won something!
Even without tasting it (especially without tasting it?), I would have voted for the octopus hot dogs.
You are a brave woman indeed.
my 5 year old nephew was thrilled beyond words with the octopus hot dog and green noodle combo.
That picture of Ben is soooooo cuuuuuute!
I read the whole long original thread in which people were submitting recipes, and I'm still toying with the idea of trying that canned tomato and bread side dish.
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