I’ve had tuna jello. It was at a restaurant in Madrid. It had beets in it as well. We ordered it based on the principle that whenever you see something really weird on a menu, you should order it because what if it’s awesome and do you really want to be the kind of person who’s so unadventurous you won’t even try some tuna jello?
It came with some kind of cracker-ish bread to eat it with and was quite good.
I cringed slightly while reading this thread, because I regularly bring my lunch to work in an old reused ice-cream tub. I might draw the line at pet food containers, though.
From an old Mad Magazine: “You scrape, and I’ll erase.”
Actually, didn’t a lot of people used to eat meat jelly – or “aspic” or whatever it was called?
Okay, I think you win this thread.
There’s a reality show about cheapskates, and one guy went to laundromats to collect the dryer lint – says it’s a good fire starter.
Another cheapskate refuses to buy toilet paper. She cuts old clothes and towels into squares. After use, the squares are put into a bin and then dumped into the wash. “You don’t have to touch them!” Seems like the extra laundry expense might cancel out the TP savings.
It’s not the length that matters, but the slimness.
There’s cheapskates, and then there’s cheapskates. It’s one thing to re-use deli and takeout containers; in fact, KFC’s containers are intended to be re-used. I don’t think anyone really has any problem with that. (Well, I wouldn’t be too thrilled about leftovers kept in old pet-food containers.)
But there are people who will happily re-use marinade to save a quarter, even if it means risking food poisoning. Or the idiots like Mr. Dryer Lint and Ms. Rags who will go to pathological lengths to save a little money. I think that, at some point, it’s less about saving actual money and more about not spending it, if that makes sense. They’re more extreme examples of the kind of person who will use half a tank of gas to save a few dollars on groceries.
Why on Earth would you throw those away? Now seriously that’s just wasteful. That’s like throwing away a chip clip every time you finish a bag of chips or throwing away a hair band after you use it once. :dubious:
They might be cheapskates or they might believe that re-use and minimisation of material intake is its own virtue. Certainly my grandparents and to a lesser extent my parents and to some extent I have the latter tendency. I don’t think you can call us cheapskates because I have no qualms about buying stuff I haven’t got that I want, but I can’t help having this feeling that it is more virtuous to re-purpose something than throw it away.
Doesn’t extend to recycling rag toilet paper though, you will be pleased to hear.