# I'm eating better than I thought

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-better-than-i-thought/181029>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 11, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-better-than-i-thought/181029 "2003-06-11T02:49:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-better-than-i-thought/181029/1 "2003-06-11T02:49:24Z")

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So I go shopping (at 10 at night) and come home. I’m dividing up the chicken and find that I have a few scraps of it left over. What the hell, I’ll have it with the excess pasta that I couldn’t fit into the pasta jar.

So I cut the chicken up into little pieces and dump it in the frying pan, while I boil up the pasta. It fries up nicely, and the pasta boils. I dump them together into a big bowl, grab a jar of store-bought pasta sauce, and dump some o’ that in too.

Then, contemplating my hurried bachelor dinner, it occurs to me. This isn’t a big mess of noodles.

This is _sauté de poulet aux fusillis à la génoise._

Well, I was impressed, at least.

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**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-better-than-i-thought/181029/2 "2003-06-11T02:56:10Z")

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Please please tell me there was some kind of veggie in the sauce (other than tomatoes). _Please_.

PS, See you at Dopereal. _mwah_

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-better-than-i-thought/181029/3 "2003-06-11T03:00:34Z")

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Does pesto count?

No?

I’ll go have a salad. _slinks off_

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**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-better-than-i-thought/181029/4 "2003-06-11T04:50:12Z")

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mmm…nothing like mixing leftovers with pasta & sauce…

well it depends on what it is lol

have you ever tried yesterday’s rice with today’s soup instead of noodles? yum. Add wallnuts (talking about tomato soup) extra goodness.

Dopereal? is that what they call it now?

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**Author:** ![Rabid\_Squirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-better-than-i-thought/181029/5 "2003-06-11T05:04:19Z")

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I personal fave after a night on the piss.

- Get leftovers, chop them into smallish pieces.
- Make thin pankcake batter
- Combine
- Fry
- Eat

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**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-eating-better-than-i-thought/181029/6 "2003-06-12T03:33:28Z")

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And today I had Caesar steak coleslaw 🙂