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[R^2]

Actually I make fantastic fried chicken. And grits. Or polenta, if you're feeling classy.

[Büge]

You can buy polenta in big tubes like cookie dough here. I never know what to do with it though.

[R^2]

what tubes why would you I don't even

Slice it and fry it. Polenta cakes are a substitute for potatoes or rice as a meal starch. Slice it thin and fry it crispy and it makes good chips to eat with soups or suchlike.

[Büge]

Of course! It's so obvious!

Thanks, R^2. I'll forward a recommendation for you.

[R^2]

My Southern fry-everything instincts win out again!

[Joxam]

Really I figured R2's problem is more that he IS a chef in a region that considers chicken 'n grits fine dining.

WOAH WOAH WOAH NOW HOLD THE PHONE. Are you saying you have a problem with chicken and grits?

[R^2]

In class today, I'm finishing a tuna tartare with a lemon vinaigrette; searing halibut and plating it with braised fennel and swiss chard in a cardamom sauce, braising rabbit and plating it with a bean puree and ginger sauce, and frosting a chocolate cake with ganache and serving it with toasted-almond ice cream.

Part of my grade will be on how attractively I can plate these items to make them look contemporary and elegant.

Tomorrow I am eating with my father and his wife, probably at a local meat-n-three where choices of entree range from meatloaf to pork chops and vegetables vary between "mashed", "deep-fried", and "stewed with fatback".

I'm not saying the latter option is bad* we're just talking about two very different levels here.

* - Except possibly in the sense that if you eat this way your whole life you may very well die of heart disease by age forty.

[R^2]

My Southern fry-everything instincts win out again!

I made a flowchart! If you want to cook like you're from the American south:

[Büge]

vegetables vary between "mashed", "deep-fried", and "stewed with fatback".

Really? They don't come in "pickled" or "boiled grey"?

[Ziiro]

What are you, English?

[Royal☭]

Worse.



Canadian.

[R^2]

Canadians could have had American technology, British culture, and French cuisine. Instead they ended up with American culture, French technology, and British cuisine.

[Mongrel]

That is... accurate.

[teg]

samus_aran: -customer calls on the phone around eight
samus_aran: -says she has some copies to do
samus_aran: -I tell her the approximate cost and what time we close at
samus_aran: -she comes in fifteen minutes before closing with 160 copies to be done (note that she only gives them to me a few at a time, so I think it can be done in time)
Ada Bee: oh boy, here we go
samus_aran: -pages are all different sizes; some are bent or torn in half and very easily jammed; one is an entire newspaper page that must be carefully aligned
samus_aran: -it takes more than half an hour to finish the job; the toner runs out at least once and asking my manager for help changing it gets me nowhere fast
samus_aran: -finally finish this huge fucking order, still with my own closing duties to be done. Other staff are waiting to go home.
samus_aran: -she complains about the price
samus_aran: She was one more insulting comment away from me answering her by saying "well, since this isn't satisfactory I'll just shred these and you can go to a different store"
samus_aran: And then actually doing it.

Also I finally submitted my record of employment, so I should have an income again soon. And tomorrow I'm going to meet with the guy in the apartment downstairs, who does some sort of home call center gig that nets him 12.50 an hour.

[Büge]

samus_aran: -customer calls on the phone around eight
samus_aran: -says she has some copies to do
samus_aran: -I tell her the approximate cost and what time we close at
samus_aran: -she comes in fifteen minutes before closing with 160 copies to be done (note that she only gives them to me a few at a time, so I think it can be done in time)
Ada Bee: oh boy, here we go
samus_aran: -pages are all different sizes; some are bent or torn in half and very easily jammed; one is an entire newspaper page that must be carefully aligned
samus_aran: -it takes more than half an hour to finish the job; the toner runs out at least once and asking my manager for help changing it gets me nowhere fast
samus_aran: -finally finish this huge fucking order, still with my own closing duties to be done. Other staff are waiting to go home.
samus_aran: -she complains about the price
samus_aran: She was one more insulting comment away from me answering her by saying "well, since this isn't satisfactory I'll just shred these and you can go to a different store"
samus_aran: And then actually doing it.
Ada Bee: "I ask the lady what her novel's called, since it seems so goddamn important that she's gotta keep me past closing to copy it, and she says 'THE ARISTOCRATS!'"

Also I finally submitted my record of employment, so I should have an income again soon. And tomorrow I'm going to meet with the guy in the apartment downstairs, who does some sort of home call center gig that nets him 12.50 an hour.

Next time, post the whole thing, you knob.

[R^2]

Probably-unpaid stage on Friday.

[Envy]

So I've been at my job for 3 weeks, and it turns out my Co-Workers are awesome. I was kind of half expecting some punks that don't wanna work. Well that turned around as I got to know them. They all work pretty hard. My boss is pretty amazing, she gave me my requested days off with no question. I'm getting about 30+ hours a week too. All in all I'm pretty happy even if it's fast food. It's going to last me for awhile till I get back on track.

[Joxam]

So, on the same day that the three biggest local police departments decided to have this get together in our town, some dude decides to escape police custody. The police used our theatre parking lot as their base of operations while looking for him. Two helicopters, two swat armored cars, at least two dozen police cars. It was wild :D I guess they went a little overboard, but they had like every non-essential emergency vehicle and personnel in the surrounding 200 miles at their disposal.

[Niku]

After month of working nights I've switched for at least this week to working morning shifts.  Man, as long as I can properly teach myself that 10pm is the new 1am, these hours RULE.  5am to 1pm, and for once I have a nice long stretch of the day where I can do whatever the fuck I want.  And as a bonus, assistant manager today was all like "man you did a good job, I need to ask them to keep you on mornings." 

It's also really nice because mornings are basically like, four hours of setup with very few interruptions, which means once the day really "starts" I'm halfway done.

[R^2]

I got a job offer! It is for a good company in a good position for good pay in a terrible location and at the worst possible time!