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TV ClubHouse: ARCHIVES: Big Brother USA 2003 General Discussions Part 1: Staples and condiments?
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Bonzacat

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
As long as the clams don't mind, then yes, it should be OK.

Costacat

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Catnip is OK with everything! As are bellinis!

Hamsterlady

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ahhh, bellinis. :)

Catfat

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Basic five food groups:
Grease, sugar, caffeine, meat, beer

Cangaroo

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
If it's milk chocolate, is it considered dairy?

Lancecrossfire

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 08:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
yes--chocolate is a food group for sure!! And a universal condiment and a staple.

Needmylifeback

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Yeah, but is popcorn a condiment or a staple?

Cliotheleo

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
Jmm...my kids would be right there with yours and including pizza.

Cangaroo

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:44 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
And if you want to count ex-lax, you could call it a fiber too. :)

Cangaroo

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 09:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
No, it's considered a miracle cure. :)

Whit4you

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 10:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
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 EditMoveDeleteIP
I think hops are considered an herb/spice. So beer is a condiment :)

Cliotheleo

Monday, August 18, 2003 - 08:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
And it's also a vegetable, possibly a fruit. :)