Susan, RE the chipotle mac & cheese, you didn’t happen to watch The Gilmore Girls on ABC Family recently, did ya?
Addendum To Life Goals
Go grocery shopping with welby. It should be fun. 
You’ve got it wrong. The acronym stands for Totally Domesticated Yaks. Which makes sense because FCM did say it was about training, after all.
Why the Navy needs domesticated yaks, I don’t know.
TDY does indeed stand for Temporary Duty. However, I like all of your definitions better.
I first discovered Nutella back in 1980 when my visiting relatives brought it from Germany. My then five year old cousin loved it to death. I didn’t like it even then.
I see it in the grocery stores around here, usually around the peanut butter and jelly selections. I avoid it like the plague.
Well, need to start the work day.
I pick on you way too much, buddy. We are, after all, kindred spirits.
How can you not like something with a hazelnut flavor? I luurve hazelnut. Espectially the hazelnut flavored Loacker Quadratini. Oh god those are addictive.
A long time ago, soon after I graduated from college, I was a newspaper reporter. I was interviewing some guy at the local community college for some story I was working on. When I got to his office he offered me some coffee. Naturally I took it. It was hazelnut flavored coffee. It was the first time I’d ever had flavored coffee or hazelnut flavored anything. Now back then I hadn’t realized I was gay and was still somewhat homophobic, a result of growing up in a Pentecostal church. My first reaction was that only gay men drink flavored coffee, so he must be gay. Conversely, since I “wasn’t” gay, I could not like it. But I did like it. That cup of flavored coffee really caused me cognitive dissonance. Later, I had to finally admit that I liked hazelnut flavored coffee. Even later, I had to accept that I am gay. So now I believe that drinking hazelnut flavored coffee turns a man gay.
Nutella : Europeans :: Peanut Butter : Americans
It’s not the hazelnut aspect that most folks find offensive, IMO, it’s more that the stuff is gawdawful rich. I find it okay in very small doses. My kids like it because they were subjected to it when they were young. Did you ever notice that you can eat some of the most offensive stuff if you ate it as a kid? Banana/mayo sandwitches would be a prime example… chances are if you didn’t eat that as a kid (or PB/banana) then you won’t eat it as a growed up. There’s lots of Thai foods that Mrs. Shibb could scarf down that I probably wouldn’t eat on a dare. Fish stomach soup, for one.
Companies I really hate at this particular moment:
Verizon
Verizon Wireless
Time Warner Cable
Superior Waste Disposal
Citibank
General Electric
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation
New York State Electric and Gas (for a different reason than I hate NiMo)
Proctor and Gamble
Microsoft
Apple
IBM
Sprint/AT&T/MCI or whothehellever it was
General Motors
Bell Canada or whatever the hell it’s called
Krispy Kreme
Dunkin’ Donuts
Certain firms that are limited liabilty partnerships but I’m not going to name names because of what they do for a living. You know what I mean.
Exxon-Mobil
The State of New York (not a company, per se, but just damn)
The bodega on Madison Avenue between Phillips and Grand
KFC
Popeye’s
General Elecric, again
Lockheed Martin
Boeing
The United States Navy (see: State of New York)
That website that sells wedding dresses that suck
The company that made the Red Sox jersey I gave my niece
Starbucks
If I didn’t mention you, rest assured you’re in my thoughts.
What did Popeye’s do? How can you be made at the maker of the best fast-food spicy fried chicken and red beans and rice to be had outside Louisiana?
Wow, is your picture in the dictionary next to “irascible”?
I may have used to work for this one Cincy based company, and still own some small amount of their stock. Maybe I can help you out with this one via my connections?
When they finally got around to opening a store around here thay put it on Hoosick Street in the misbegotten bastard whore of a city that is Troy.
That last reply was for Homebrew, obviously.
Nothing serious, Shibb; I just got some shampoo in my eyes this morning.
This one is called, Pick Shibb’s Lunch. Here are the choices:
[ul]
[li]A hot Italian sub from Frankie’s deli.[/li][li]Pad Thai[/li][li]Quizno’s (probably a spicy Monterrey sub)[/li][li]BBQ Beef brisket cooked in a big smoker down the street[/li][li]Some kind of burrito[/li][li]Garlic Chicken from the Chinese place[/li][li]Any other suggestions - try and be creative.[/li][/ul]
But hurry, I’m getting hungry and I need to stop by the bank.
- Shibb, who’s had an extra cup of coffee today. bounce
Ahh, you have to drive too far. I understand that. Fortunately for me there is one less than a mile from my house.
Los Bastardos!! That’s it, I’m divesting!
Oh, and it’s Procter & Gamble. You know those Germans can’t spell anything right.
Sammiches of course!
The domesticated ones hold still better when you try to cover them with mayonaisse.
Anyone for a YLT?
How about Yak on a Shingle? … er … Okay, maybe not. :smack:
Shibb Chinese of course. That way I can <snerk> at your fortune.
I vote - Pad Thai.
Susan
Wow, somebody’s cranky today. Do you need a nap? Your head rubbed? Tell me how to make it better.
Hmm. I’ll have to warn my sister. She loves hazelnut coffe and got two pounds of it for Christmas from a co-worker. She, her husband and I have been enjoying it on the weekends. Guess he doesn’t get anymore!
Myself, I don’t really like hazelnut anything. I’ll drink the coffee if that’s all that’s around (flavored coffee is better than no coffee), but really prefer unflavored coffee, if it’s good. And I can’t stand Nutella. Hey, one more thing to add to my list of foods I don’t like. Maybe if I make the list long enough, I can be as svelte as Susan! Right now, I like more foods then I dislike, and it shows.
Oh, yeah, and YAY!! **Welby’s ** back!
Gee, that BBQ sounds good to me. Can you get a good BBQ sandwich with coleslaw? Yum!
The Chinese food fortunes are in red. The Thai food fortunes are in green. This is their convention, not mine. Don’t know why, but so far it’s held true. So I could get Pad Thai and a fortune, but I’m not positive that the place I’m thinking of going has fortune cookies (most Thai places don’t).