If I could get away with putting away food before the family ate, I’d do it. If it’s just me, I’ll pack it all up after I’ve taken a serving because:
I’m very likely to forget and leave it sitting out for more than two hours
I want to get it into storage containers before it congeals or dries out
I want to relax after dinner
We have a cat who will get up on the stove to get into any uncovered food, so I have to secure it anyway.
Some of this is a weird compulsion I have to produce food in bulk and freeze it for future meals. I try really hard not to snatch all the food away before other people are done eating.
I considered the walking-over-water aspect, but decided that teleportation could get me out of threatening situations or across a reasonably-sized creek.
That’s my kitchen philosophy. I like to prepare everything I’ll need (mise en place), begin cooking, then clean every spare second. Water boiling? Wash the cutting board and knives. Oven preheating? Clean the bowls I used and the food processor.
ETA: my gf cooks totally differently. Needs cheese grated? “kayaker, come here and grate this cheese!” And she leaves the kitchen a mess, because she thinks I should do cleanup since she cooked. But it works for us, since I enjoy being in the kitchen.
Living in Minnesota, with our temperature variances and my Grave’s Disease, this one was the no brainer for me.
I usually eat, then refrigerate leftovers, but only because the food is hot. My ex would leave food out for hours before putting it in the fridge so there wouldn’t be condensation issues. Umm, what’s more important, no moisture issues or not getting sick?
This, if there’s any doubt as to how much I’ll eat. If I know how much I’ll be eating now and how much will be leftovers, I’ll put the leftovers away as soon as it’s convenient, which may be before or after I eat.
I sometimes leave food out for hours because I’m lazy. Honestly, i worry more about quality declining (meat can develop that “leftover” flavor) more than i worry about food poisoning.
I’ve lived in the country and had peaches, I’ve had jambalaya on the bayou, and I’ve even had a cheeseburger in paradise, and I gotta tell you, that was one memorable cheeseburger. I’d like another one of those some day.
For the erasing of deaths, I chose by how recently they died, how young they were, and what killed them. I strongly suspect if we erased Janis Joplin’s or Jimi Hendrix’s first death, there’d have been another one in pretty short order.
The friends poll made me sad. I’ve lost touch with almost all of my old friends (or they’ve died), so there are very few people left who I share a real history with.
I chose Amy Winehouse. It was sad that her death happened so early in life. Someone with a lot of potential who let drugs, etc. derail it all. Probably not mentally stable to begin with.
Yes - but this is an incompetent genie we’re talking about.
As much as I would have loved John Belushi to have continued to make movies, I’m sure most of them would have sucked shit, so I’d rather have the idealized memory.
I choose Buddy Holly. The dude was an innovator. Several years ago, I had heard some of the demos he had made in his NYC apartment shortly before he died. The dude had the talent and charisma of John Lennon, but he was refreshingly asshole-free.
My father worked for IBM, so we didn’t actually settle in one place until I was in middle school, so I didn’t meet my long-term friends until then,
For deaths, I picked Selena. Her death was murder, not something she did to herself, not a risk she knowingly took and she was still so dang young and (admittedly like many of the others) had so dang much potential. And a jealous, sick person stole it all from her. All.
I chose Selena for similar reasons as carnut. It was close between her and Buddy, but the senseless murder angle makes her death that much sadder and more tragic. I chose Phil Hartman in the first poll.
As tragic as many of the deaths listed were, I ruled out any drug-related demises, which cut my options down considerably. Still a tough choice.
I chose Phil Hartman. He was hilarious and didn’t deserve to go out like that.
I was watching a video of a symphony today, just thinking about how someday I would like to be able to play trombone again. I played it prolifically from fourth grade through freshman year of college. I would have to be retrained, even though I remember what positions are which notes and could probably still do my scales.
Then I picked piano and cello. You can always entertain with a piano, and cellos sound pretty. Trombones are a lot of things but they’re aren’t pretty.