So, have you ever gotten food at the salad bar, and something from a nearby container has fallen into the container of whatever you're getting and you don't notice until you're eating it... only to find out that it's really GOOD?
That's fairly specific, I know. But a couple weeks back I was getting tuna salad from the salad bar so I could make myself a sandwich. (If you get the tuna and the pita at the salad bar, it tends to cost about $3.00. If you buy a tuna sandwich, it costs $4.25. Further proof that I'm a cheap bastard.) Anyway, the tuna is next to the chow mein noodles and I wound up having a sandwich that had a few crunchies in it.
Today I went to the salad bar, couldn't decide what I wanted, and finally wound up dumping chow mein noodles and tuna salad together in a pita for a crunchy tuna effect. SO GOOD. And yet, I somehow feel as if I actually ate this concoction in front of people I would be berated and scorned.... or at least stared at like Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club when she puts popcorn and pixie sticks on her sandwich.
But I'm telling you, TRY IT.
Comments (7)
Actually, that does sound pretty good!
Posted by: statia | November 18, 2002 3:24 PM
Actually, not to nitpick, but she puts on Captain Crunch cereal and pixie stix powder.
But I know just what you mean. I like putting small pieces of pretzels in my tuna sandwiches. Something about the slightly salty crunch that goes well with tuna. Yum!
Posted by: Josh | November 19, 2002 10:19 AM
Wow! Someone correcting Joy over something in The Breakfast Club?? Now I don't know *what* to believe!
Posted by: rOD | November 19, 2002 11:49 AM
Well, I can explain that, I think.
See, as a child my mother would not allow my brother and me to have sugared cereal. I don't think I have ever actually eaten Captain Crunch. I will say that I have never noticed that it's NOT popcorn - maybe she puts on both? I dunno. But the idea that it's Captain Crunch certainly lends credence to the horrible sound that emerges when she bites into it - a sound that I have long thought to be terribly unreal if it was popcorn.
As for the pixie sticks versus pixie powder debate.... po-tay-to, po-tah-to. You knew what I meant.
Posted by: Joy | November 19, 2002 1:46 PM
They're playing "Breakfast Club" as the midnight movie at the Landmark here this weekend!!
Posted by: Sassy McSmartpants | November 21, 2002 12:27 PM
Oh, the incredible insane jealousy... I saw Breakfast Club on the big screen when it originally came out but haven't seen it on anything larger than a 25" TV since then. And it's my FAVORITE movie.
Posted by: Joy | November 21, 2002 12:39 PM
It is Captain Crunch....no popcorn.
Posted by: Bubbles | March 17, 2004 8:54 AM