My high school required two years of a language other than English to graduate. Given the internet was just barely becoming popular at the time, it wasn’t until college that I learned that not only is that not a requirement everywhere, it wasn’t even a requirement statewide (though my brother’s high school in a different town also required it).
I don’t have milk in the house because My Lovely Wife can’t drink it, but eat cold cereal with soy or oat beverages.
A protein shake, along with one or two hardboiled eggs. Lately I’ve subbed yogurt and fresh blueberries for the eggs.
Bit really in topic but the discussion reminded me that my grandparents ate small for breakfast and lightly for dinner.;I remember having just popcorn in the evenings when I was with them. Their big meal was lunch, which had meat, or a meat substitute, along with lots of fresh vegetables, both cooked and raw, and bread and butter. I don’t recall any starches.
They had grown up farmers, and I always assumed that’s why they ate that way. I try to eat meals that way, but modern life gets in the way. I truly hate eating big after 6:00 pm, and it happens more than I like. But I have to get calories in and if I eat very little during the day when I’m working, it happens that way.
When I was working, I generally had cold cereal with fruit and soy milk (I’m not a milk fan) for breakfast. Now that I’m retired, I’ll often cook breakfast, especially in the cooler months. I’ve been drinking coffee all morning, every morning, since I was 17 or so (with two long, grudging breaks for pregnancy), and that hasn’t stopped now that I can relax and enjoy it. “Breakfast” nowadays is often more like brunch, though, and the later it gets, the more likely I am to cook.
While i prefer dairy milk, i think of soy and oat beverages as milks.
I once got a Man-o-war tentacle wrapped around my leg. Ho-ly Crap, even nearly forty years later, I still remember the pain vividly.
I think knowing a second (or third) language is a wonderful thing. However, I resist making it a requirement in high school or for admission to college. Not everyone has an aptitude for it, and it’s not an essential academic pursuit. I’m generally in favor of lots of options and few “requirements” when it comes to education. I voted that none of the classes listed should be a graduation requirement, although most are certainly valuable. Let the kids decide what to take, hopefully with guidance from their parents or other adults, and accept the consequences of their decisions.
My very first thread here (circa 2008) was musing whether I gave my daughter bad advice when I told her “don’t take a high school language class if you don’t want to, a college that wants you will take you even if you don’t have two years of high school Spanish on your transcript.” She got into a very good school (the only one she applied to) and ended up spending a year studying in Italy and coming back pretty fluent in Italian. It could have certainly turned out differently, but that’s one of the many risks we take in life.
I rarely eat Oreos; not because I don’t like them at all, and not because they’re worse for me than other things I do eat, but because while I like them OK I like other things better and therefore don’t want to spend either limited funds or limited carb allowances on Oreos. I have and might again eaten them on occasion, though, and when I did I ate them in bites without separating them. So I checked both that and, possibly confusingly, that I don’t eat them for some other reason.
Many years ago, as a child, I’ve been scratched by the sharp fins of sunnies, and have been bitten by leeches. No treatment was required.
My favorite eating grape is Delaware. This is not a seedless grape so I couldn’t vote in the poll. Concords (the original, not the seedless Concords, though the poll doesn’t specify) I like OK but they’re not my favorite, but since I do like them OK I couldn’t even vote that I don’t like any of the options. I’ve never eaten a number of those varieties, including that I haven’t eaten the Moondrops that @Biotop is enthusiastic about; if I see any, maybe I’ll try them.
I don’t have anything to say about the Grand Prix, other than that if that’s not why you’re going there I advise staying out of Watkins that weekend. The traffic’s horrendous.
My most common breakfast is a freshly nuked chimichanga or burrito.
Don’t care for the regular Oreos, but the “blond” ones are good. I used to separate the cookie, eat the half without the filling, then eat the other half out from under the filling, leaving as complete a disk of filling as possible.
As I recall (it’s been a few decades 
) my high school required three years of English (combined grammar and lit), four years of PE, one of science, two of maths, one of world history, one of US history, and a semester of driver’s ed. This was the late '60s/early '70s; boys were required to take either two years of Army JROTC or three years of marching band – I only know of one kid who, as a nonmusical CO, managed to avoid this. Can’t remember if shop or home ec were required subjects or not. Just for the record, my favourite classes were ROTC, German (took three years of it), and Drama.
The grape poll needed to permit multiple responses – I picked seedless green because those are what my wofe and daughter prefer.
Granola bars don’t count as pastries, right?
I haven’t done this in years, but I devised the perfect way to eat Oreos:
A glass of milk with a spoon in it. Drop the entire Oreo into the milk. In a couple of seconds it will start to sink. Immediately catch it with the spoon and scoop it whole into your mouth.
I guess that’s an “other”
I didn’t know I was a barbarian before, but I guess I am, because I usually do pop the entire Oreo into my mouth. Gotta have a big glass of cold milk close at hand to wash it down, of course! I like the mint Oreos best, but I’ll happily scarf down the originals.
No particular opinion on grapes - other than those starting to go bad, I don’t think I’ve ever had a grape I didn’t like.
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Ooo, that sound good. I’ll try it. Thanks!
I like the muscat grapes and their hybrids. Jupiter is a nice seedless cultivar with a decent muscat flavor. There are others. Sometimes i see “muscat” on the tag at while foods, and i pick up a bunch of grapes. Otherwise i don’t usually bother.
Concords are okay, but I’m unlikely to eat a whole box. If i see moondrops I’ll give it a try. I really didn’t like the cotton candy grapes. Accurately named, and not what i want in a grape.
I like the moondrops when I can get them. The flesh:skin ratio is much more in favor of the flesh.
Teardrop grapes are fantastic but you have to be lucky enough to be in the grocery store during the hour every year in which they are available.
I have been known to dunk Oreos in hot tea, hence my “other beverage” vote. But really, I dunk Hydrox in tea. Hydrox are crispier than Oreos, which makes them more suitable for dunking.
I’ve probably been stung by a jellyfish before, although it wasn’t particularly painful. While snorkeling of the coast of Costa Rica I felt something brush against my arm. At the time I assumed it was a piece of kelp or something and didn’t think anything of it. But after I got back on the boat I started to get an itchy rash in that spot, sort of like a bunch of insect bites, which led me to conclude it was probably a jellyfish that touched me.
Behold, dunking Oreos in any drink other than cold milk is an abomination in my sight.
Explain the risk, and then take her where she’s asking you to take her.
She has the right to refuse medical treatment entirely, even if it kills her. She’s certainly got the right to say that she wants to go to the further emergency room. But it should be an informed risk: so explain it the best you can in a hurry.
Every health insurance plan I have had has stated that they would cover emergency care at an out of network hospital as long is it’s a “true emergency” (their words). So I would imagine this woman’s insurance would likely pay the bill for the out of network hospital, although there would almost certainly be more paperwork involved than going to an in-network hospital. Though I suppose there’s a non-zero possibility that the insurance company would claim that it wasn’t really a true emergency, she totally could have gone to an in-network hospital, and therefore it’s not covered.
I’d try to talk the woman into going to the nearest ER, letting her know that because her condition is definitely life-threatening and time-sensitive, she could appeal if her insurance denies the claim. But as long as she’s lucid, it’s ultimately her decision. (I once insisted that my daughter be taken to an excellent ER across town instead of a lousy one less than a mile away, so I know whereof I speak.)
I’ve never been injured by any sea creature, but I’m terrified of them. I was once attacked by seaweed and it scared me so much I almost did myself an injury trying to get away.
And I voted both that I don’t like Oreos but that I eat them like a toddler, filling side first. This is because I don’t actually like chocolate cookies, and the filling makes me feel sick. However, if someone presents me with an Oreo, I cannot turn it down. I eat the filling side first so that I can get the fatty residue out of my mouth with the plain side. I should probably bring this up in therapy.