i hate wasting food and eat as much half chewed food my kid didn’t finish as anyone. but man, i draw the line at eating half a cardboard pizza that’s been congealing unrefrigerated in a backpack for presumably 4+ hours.
on the hot lunch days my kid comes home and i ask, why’d you bring this home? and most of the time the container has decomposed and it’s leaked all through his backpack. and he says the teacher made him and i’m like, who does she think is going to eat this tiny container of mac and cheese that’s been sitting out for half a day?
I used to work at Boston Pizza for 5-6 years as a cook and closer, during the cup run in 2011.
One evening I was working with my colleague to close everything down, and I stuck my entire right hand into an active deep frier. That was the 2nd dumbest thing I ever did. The 1st dumbest I ever did was, after rinsing my hand frantically with cold running water and giant blisters started forming on my palm, I made the incredibly wise decision to peel one of them off.
Went to ER, waited about 30 minutes, doctor had a look, nurse slathered white cream all over my hand, wrapped it in bandaged and off I go~. First night I couldn't sleep at all because, you know, I had a deep fried f***ing hand. But 2nd day and onward, I felt nothing anymore. Next 3 weeks I had to go to Burnaby Hospital super track every other day to change the dressing, and have the nurse cut off some of the dried dead skin. Lucky for me, I seem to have the healing power of Wolverine, and made a 100% recovery with no loss of function and no scars. My right hand was good as new
and ready to conquer the world for the glory of my Communist overlords again.