Bonzacat | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:37 pm     Wad - LOL! Hamsterlady - yes, as long as you also serve a crisp White Zinfandel with the combo! |
Wadsters | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:37 pm     As long as the clams don't mind, then yes, it should be OK. |
Costacat | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:38 pm     Catnip is OK with everything! As are bellinis! |
Hamsterlady | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:43 pm     Ahhh, bellinis. |
Catfat | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:53 pm     Basic five food groups: Grease, sugar, caffeine, meat, beer |
Cangaroo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:55 pm     Can chocolate be added to one of those food groups? It's so useful, if melted, it's a great condiment or drink, if solid it's a great staple and on and on. |
Whit4you | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:55 pm     I don't know - personally I see no point in even doing this PB&J deal if they are allowed all these condiments, think of all the things you can make with them. I think of all those who are living on cooked grass in 3rd world countries and am pretty disgusted with them complaining about all the things they can eat on 'pb & j' days. If those who are starving toddeath and only able to eat a cup of rice, or cooked grass could have an endless supply of all the condiments and so on these folks have they'd be in heaven. You could make tomato soup with the catchup .. dipped with the bread it'd be good. You could make cinnimun buns with the sugar cinnimon and bread, or cinnimon toast. You could make jelly rolls, peanut brittle of sorts. There are so many things you could make with all these condiments it's not even funny. They are whimps. |
Cangaroo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:56 pm     If it's milk chocolate, is it considered dairy? |
Lancecrossfire | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:56 pm     yes--chocolate is a food group for sure!! And a universal condiment and a staple. |
Needmylifeback | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:03 pm     Here's one kind of off topic but DS came up with this question and You all are perfect to answer it: Is Popcorn a vegetable??? (Think carefully...in its original state it is a vegetable..so what makes it stop being one if it isn't!) |
Cangaroo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:07 pm     Wow, I would think a vegetable, but if the HGs put in on bread that's been spread with PB...then it becomes a condiment doesn't it? Oh, what a puzzler. |
Jmm | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:09 pm     Needs, Let your son check out this site. It has a very interesting answer to his question. Popcorn, The Vegetable |
Needmylifeback | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:14 pm     Thanks Jmm...I've bookmarked it for him! (When we lived in California ...we grew our own corn ...and when DS was two...he'd walk back and pick an ear and then shuck it on his way back to the house (we had about a half acre fenced yard)...and just begin eating it! ...It was the best corn I've ever tasted!) |
Jmm | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:25 pm     You're very welcome Needs. I must tell you that I had to laugh at the question though, it sounds like some of the ones that my DS comes up with (he's 10). So I've become fairly good at using Ask Jeeves to get answers to his questions. |
Costacat | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:26 pm     Yeah, but is popcorn a condiment or a staple? |
Cliotheleo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:30 pm     Not only is popcorn a vegetable, but it may also be a fruit. One of the weird things I'm proud of is that I know the difference between a vegetable and a fruit. A vegetable is ANY part of a plant that you eat. A fruit is a part of a plant that you eat that contains the seeds or other reproductive "parts." That's why a tomato is BOTH a fruit and a vegetable (and a cucumber too for matter.) I'm not entirely clear on how corn reproduces naturally, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that it has something to do with the kernels and that would mean that popcorn is ALSO a fruit. |
Cangaroo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:34 pm     Then isn't it a grain also? After all, we're eating the "seed" portion. If you look at a spear of wheat, they look slightly similar. |
Cliotheleo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:36 pm     Yep, popcorn may just be the world's most perfect food. We'll have it in the meat and dair categories before the night's over with. (ha ha) Sadly, marconi and cheese is NOT a vegetable. I tried my whole life to convince my mother that and she NEVER believed me! |
Costacat | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:39 pm     You can make fake meat patties with popcorn. So that takes care of the meat portion. And you can make milk from fresh corn, so that's dairy! |
Jmm | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:41 pm     Clio, While mac and cheese is not a vegetable, my kids would tell you it is definitely a staple. LOL |
Cangaroo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:41 pm     Then is chocolate considered a nut since it started that way? I truly want it to be part of an important food group. |
Cliotheleo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:42 pm     Jmm, sounds good to me! Canga, not only is chocolate a nut but it's both a fruit AND a vegetable. Whoohoo!!!!!!!!! |
Cangaroo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:42 pm     Jmm...my kids would be right there with yours and including pizza. |
Cangaroo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:44 pm     Clio...I'm a very happy camper now...I keep telling my hubby that milk chocolate is dairy too. |
Cliotheleo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:52 pm     And if you want to count ex-lax, you could call it a fiber too. |
Cangaroo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:54 pm     LMAO...wow Clio...I didn't think of that...are we sure we even want to go there? Is Viagra then considered a baking ingredient? After all, it raises something from practically nothing... |
Cliotheleo | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:55 pm     No, it's considered a miracle cure. |
Whit4you | Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 10:07 pm     I think the next BB should take place in the rec room of a physciatric hospial... no doubt we'd all feel right at home there. |
Needmylifeback | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 07:13 am     My DS thanks you all! He just got up off of the floor after I read him this thread! I wonder if Movie Theaters should start advertising to parents..."Bring your kids to the Movies and get them their daily requirement of vegetables!" HA! |
Dan | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:00 am     If beer taken straight from the bottle or the can is considered a "penalty nomination" food group, what about pourring it over a peanut butter sandwich, would it then be considered a condiment? |
Alinthehouse | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:20 am     Dan- Maybe beer could be used as a dip, like au jus (sp.) for french dip sandwiches. That might qualify as a condiment. But, could you imagine a pb&j sandwich with beer soaked bread...yeck!! |
Naja | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:28 am     I think hops are considered an herb/spice. So beer is a condiment  |
Cliotheleo | Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:33 am     And it's also a vegetable, possibly a fruit. |