# I guess I'll just eat all this Chinese food. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 7, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291 "2012-11-07T23:01:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/1 "2012-11-07T23:01:51Z")
After a long day at work, I decided it would be nice to treat the kids and myself to takeout. Since I didn’t have a menu and the local place doesn’t have a website, I called and placed an order by describing what we wanted in hopes that the nice lady would know what I meant. It worked (I think), and I have an order to pick up in a few minutes: chicken and broccoli, shrimp lo mein, peanut chicken. And chicken skewers. Oh, and egg rolls. So…then the Weeping Princess bounces in just long enough to say “HiImgoingtomeetmyfriendsatkarategottagoloveyabye!” And I think TBone is sleeping the sleep of the adolescent gangly kid. So…come on over! There’s plenty! karol ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/2 "2012-11-07T23:03:33Z")
I can’t even believe I forgot the crab rangoon. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/3 "2012-11-07T23:09:58Z")
Thanks! I’m so hungry, I think I could eat a million egg rolls. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/4 "2012-11-07T23:17:03Z")
I’m on my way! I’ll bring the soy sauce 😃 ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2012, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/5 "2012-11-07T23:50:21Z")
You are killing me here! I’m killing time waiting for a friend to get off work. I’m over hungry and a tad cranky. Furthermore I’m newly on a heavily sodium reduced diet now, so Chinese food is just a dream to me these days. And now you have excess sate and lo mein? It’s more than I can bear, I gotta go…eat something saltless ☹ ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/6 "2012-11-08T00:07:39Z")
Ooooh, low-sodium diet. That is the ugliest sounding thing ever. You deserve sympathy cards for that. ☹ Interesting fact: You get a lot more food for $30 takeout than for $30 buffet for one adult and two kids. AND get this: TBones fortune read thusly: “You are an angel. Beware of those who collect feathers.” Creepy! ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/7 "2012-11-08T01:03:20Z")
Yum I’ve been wanting Chinese food ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/8 "2012-11-08T01:11:02Z")
So? Did you eat ALL the things? ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/9 "2012-11-08T01:15:31Z")
I tried, but I still have loads left over. I cannot believe how many pounds and pounds of food that turned out to be. I did manage to snarf up the eggrolls, though. So good! Lunch for tomorrow is all ready to go! ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/10 "2012-11-08T05:12:04Z")
Sheesh, what’s creepy about it? I love feathers! (Pretty great coincidence, I have to say! I do, in fact, have a large collection of feathers! Perhaps it’s magic chinese food! Consider buying a lottery ticket at lunch, is all I’ll say!)) ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2012, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-guess-ill-just-eat-all-this-chinese-food/640291/11 "2012-11-08T15:10:14Z")
It’s ten in the morning over here and now I’m craving Chinese food. And the local place does not open until 11:30. Pouts.