I'm gearing up big time for the season premiere of Lost tomorrow night. I still have a couple more episodes of season two to complete, but it has gotten me thinking. If I was on the island, I would probably do OK because I love fish and fruit. There always seems to be a plethora of mangoes on the island and seeing as they are one of my favorite fruits, particularly for breakfast, I would be happy for a while. But the mundanity of eating the same thing day after day, lunch after lunch would probably start to crush my spirit.
I would miss bread tremendously. The smell of bread baking has to be one of the greatest things in the world. And meat, especially beef, would be one of my main cravings I am certain, and no amount of wild boar would replace a New York Strip or a big old bacon cheeseburger. Oh yes, Cheese. Glorious cheese. I would be missing cheese big time and all forms of dairy. And of course candy. And donuts. Coca Cola classic. Coffee. I could go on and on, but I want to hear what you would miss if you were trapped on an island with the others and some mysterious magnetic station.
And you know, WFL?
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Spices... i know they arent really a food but i cannot imagine having every meal without any flavor.. ugh.. i guess you could start trying random little shrubs in the forrest but with how that island is trying to kill me, i prolly wouldnt press my luck.
i would miss my starches and grains too but if there was some type of bland tuber i think i could survive bread free...
Another WHOLE night til lost? well that ear fucks a bit...
Lunch today was a bland roast beef au jus sandwich.
the only parts of that title that were true were that it was some part of a cow (thus beef) and that it had a hoagie roll involved so it could defined as a sandwich...
ugh.. is it friday yet?
i'd miss wine. and i'd miss eggs. and i'd miss cheese too.
going to lunch today with an old friend...i should eat healthy b/c i'm gonna get a burger tonight. oh, i'd miss hamburgers too.
oh, and do you know that congressional pages are known as the "fluffers of liberty"?
Well, I have given this topic some thought, and since I hate fruit, I'd be pretty much fucked.
I would miss beef a lot. And cheese. But more than anything, I would miss booze. They stretched those little airplane bottles, but I'd be through those in a day or so.
Actually, I'm thinking I need to learn how to ferment fruit into booze, you know, just in case.
My first thought was that I would miss hash browns. Then, I realized that there is probably some sort of tuber I could dice and fry up somewhere on that lush tropical island. Ditto some sort of wild onion.
Jada, I gotta agree with you. It's the cheese I would miss most. The hash browns would be good, but they just aren't the same unless they are smothered in cheese, preferably the variety from cow milk.
Even worse, I'm pretty sure I would spend some time figuring out a dairy source (the implications of which I have not fully explored in my head, but I tend to believe they would be horrifying), and then I would spend some time trying to figure out how to make cheese (which, given my lack of intimate knowledge of cheesemaking, I have no doubt would have equally horrifying results).
Messy.
Lunch today? Man, I don't know. I came in crazy early today, and I'm running around answering stupid questions for people that I don't want to answer. Maybe I'll celebrate by going to that deli around the block where they serve your sandwich on a small loaf of bread.
It'll be something with lots of cheese.
ps - ht, they call it prison wine. Ask mikeysunshine about it. And, I would miss booze, too. Really, really miss it. Of course, I would probably have oodles of it hidden in religious statues somewhere while I was pretending to dry out.
Well on the Lost island we have to differentiate to pre hatch and post hatch. Pre-hatch I could probably do alright on fish and mangoes. But I hate coconut so that would have been horrible. I dig boar so I could eat alot of that. Not sure how I feel about Polar bear. I'd miss spices but you figure they would have salt right?
Post hatch they have all that food at their disposal so I'd be just fine.
3 meetings in a row today so lunch will be in about an hour. No idea what it will be.
I took a survival class a few years ago and am prepared to live off the land indefinitely, and when I was a kid my dad taught me how they used to turn pineapples into booze when he was in the peace corps, so I'd be set.
I be rollin with yellowtail sushi about 3 times a week, pulled boar Barbecue for days after a successful hunt, heaps of bannana, cocanut smoothies (sorry watchdog, none for you)fruit and nut salads all the time and heaps of tea made from the roots of all sorts of plants & shrubs. Oh and I'd trip my balls off on the haiwasku. A milky liquid distilled from the crazy cactus that makes you trip... i mena commune with the spirit world for days at a time. I figure I can enjoy tripping about as long as the pineapple booze takes to make itself, then I can drink to come down off my mind bender and have a few coctails down by the beach.
ALso there better be some topless native women around.
A man can not live by fucking the holes he cuts in mellons alone.
Earthquake. I love the NY deli. The little bread loafs are great.
HT, yeah in the most recent edition of 'Please Steve, don't eat it' he gives two ways to make prison wine. With a new keg of Magic Hat in the living room for the baseball playoffs, I don't think I'll be brewing any of that shit any time soon, but with no income, I may resort to it soon.
After a few weeks of bad performances, El Jefe, he come and take away el Ultimo Dragon's Television. Dragon not know what is lost, but knows how to eat everything under sun.
Many would say, Ultimo Dragon, we can not eat that. Ultimo Dragon say, go hungary than. More for Dragon.
Sunshine, we are in the same boat - let me know when it's time to resort to prison wine. Wasn't there talk last year of some OWFLers making dandelion wine?
I suppose i'm echoing a common theme here, but I would miss beer most of all. And cold beer specifically, so i suppose I would also miss refridgeration.
As for food, i'd be all about bear meat. And i'd take away Piggy's glasses so I could start a fire and cook that shit up real good.
Then i'd have conch salad. Did I mention that i've got the conch?
Cheese would be such a terrible loss! But for you ladies who will be there for Girls Night Out(side) this weekend..no loss for us! There will be plenty of cheese fondue and grilled cheese sammies made with my new hobo pie maker!
I'd really miss coffee and camels too.
Mamon, I could be wrong here, but couldn't the salt situation be remedied with the ocean? I don't know the science behind making that work, but I feel sure it can be done.
I said the thing about salt earlier!!!
PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!
COffee grows in the islands. You know Juan Valdez? he come from island. worry not Dragon Fans. Coffee will not be missed.
Salt, she comes from the ocean,so also no worries ther
Is Ultimo Dragon stuck on this island with other fools or is he alone?
Could you cook food that you wished to be salty in sea water? Would the heat kill the other bad things, and keep the salty taste?
As for cheese, don't forget about Fromunda cheese!! Plenty to be had...especially with no shower facilities
Gross watchdog...gross.
just trying to help the cheese lovers out there!
I join you all in your lust for cheese and alcohol, plus I'd really, really miss garlic and onions, b/c they make anything better. But I'm sure Sun could scare up some sort of wild substitute. My two true concerns about island living are (2) my allergy to mango skins and (2) the high odds of the stress from being stranded somewhere sending me rushing back into the arms of the Marlboro Man only to find that nobody has any smokes. So, if we were all trapped on a desert island, would someone peel mangoes for me and help my find some wild tobacco?
Lunch today was Baja Fresh--Steak burrito Ultimo. It's been about an hour and a half since I finished lunch, and I'm still uncomfortably full. But it was yummy.
I am officially suckling from the government teet. Well, not yet, but I'm all signed up to do so. You can do that online now, which is convenient.
However, if I need to make a stop at my local One Stop Career Center, I've been assigned to the CVS/Unemployment Office on South Capitol St. in SW. GG, I'm coming to your hood. You know, to pick up deodorant, tampons, and tips on finding a job...
do you use wet wipes mamon?
HT, I need teat lessons.
If you are willing to come over and teach, I can get you drunk on draft been and take advantage of you
I mean your knowledge.. take advantage of your knowledge
Don't believe him HT! Sunshine didn't come to my birthday party!
Nice topic, Jada. Man, I can't wait for Lost. But I have a conundrum. I missed Project Runway last week & the re-run is during Lost. So do I just give it up & miss it? Or do I watch Lost? I'm thinking I'll give it up, b/c hey, it's Bravo, it'll probably be on 100 times again in the next month.
As for what I would miss, ummmm. Everything. Pretty much everything everyone's mentioned already. I could do ok for awhile on the mangos (oooooh mangos), assuming a knife was available & the wild boar (that someone else would probably have to catch for me - me not so fast & strong to overpower wild beast with big tusks), but eventually, it would be the little things. Pasta. Spices. Diet Coke. Hummus. Siiiiigh. And yeah, baked bread. Mmmmm. Nothing like that smell.
Remind me never to eat cheese anything at WD's house.
Oh, and lunch today was 1/2 a fancy turkey club at this new restaurant in Ballston, thanks to my preggers Mormon friend's driving. It's a new restaurant called 'Willow' (for you DCer's: the chef is a former chef at Kincaid's - ooooooh, fancy). It was excellent. And also huge, so the 2nd half is chilling in the fridge for lunch tomorrow. I was really full after finishing it! Amazingly enough!
I don't get how people can pee on the seat in an office and not wipe it off. Actually, I don't see how people can pee on the seat in the office period. I mean, I don't think they clean my bathroom, like ever, but I just use one of those paper things & sit on it. WTF is wrong with people? How do you pee on the seat if you're sitting? I just don't understand the physics of it all.
That's an easy one.
Guys don't sit down.
Actually, I had a case last summer where a boy was sitting down, I assume to poo, and when he went for the acompanying pee, his wiener was pointed so when he let go, the pee went straight throurh the little space between the seat and the bowl.
That's like peeing on the seat... the bottom of the seat.
For the record, Xzavier, the boy that this happened to, also gave e the quote
"I don't know... Somebody must have peed on my pants."
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's hysterical. I guess I mis-read. I was under the assumption this guy was sitting. I guess that was Mamon, though. Sittin' & readin' his paper.
Yep, that tears it. Boys are gross.
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