Couch 224: 2day, 2morrow, 4evah!

I have an aversion to combinations of sweet and salt, like chocolate covered pretzels. Or sugar on French toast.

Fries in a milkshake...no. But that means more for others.

I agree with you on all of those. I also really hate pineapple and apple added to meat dishes or savory foods. I did, however, enjoy sweet tarts and pixie stix before old age took the pleasure of almost all sugar consumption away.

so you probably don't like pineapple on pizza? that's another favorite of mine, but minus the ham they usually put on it.

I like ham on pizza...got one on my way home earlier, actually.

I don't mind ham on pizza - although my favorite is sausage and giardiniera, but absolutely no pineapple.
One of my favorite memories of my mother was once when were visiting friends of hers and they had made a large pot of some faux asian dish and it was filled with pineapple and shrimp (which I also dislike) and when they were not watching, she tossed my bowl into the trash and gave me a lot of plain rice with some butter on it. They were feeding the children early so it was not like she tossed it at a large gathering of adults. And they did not ask whether we wanted it or how much. Being polite, I was trying to choke it down by taking huge spoonfuls and swallowing it whole. Later she told me she wished she could have thrown hers out too.

Welcome. Ask questions, gripe about something, introduce yourself, comment on what others are saying. The Couch is a pretty free-form place to talk about stuff trivial or important. Just don't hug stopdog; she doesn't like it.

Any reason you don't want to support the company? Are they doing something objectionable?

Yes - but do a search - I don't want to get into it here - the topics are controversial/political

PS - that weird saltiness with sweet was always the reason I didn't like fake oreos.

Damn, their stuff was really quite good too.

Hmm. I kind of like the sweet salty thing, but only in certain ways. Dark chocolate covered salted caramels, good; pineapple on pizza, bad. Anchovies on pizza, very good!

We would grill thin slices on balogna on a hibachi at the beach when I was a kid. Can't imagine eating it now!

Okay, that story tags the main difference between how your parents treated you and how my parents treated me. You were at least more important to your parents than SOME other people. My parents never let me forget that all other people were more important to them then i was. I talked about this in therapy, a lot, but i dont think any t ever really believed me, or ever really believed that a parent would do that. So still kind of unresolved. They say if you have the right question, thats halfway to the answer, or 90 pct, whichever comes first, but idk.

Giardiniera are the yogurt of the vegetable world: how can you tell when its gone bad?

Eta - that is a great story. Thats a story of someone who has your back. That is three pigs material.

My mom was really good about not making us eat stuff we hated. She had a few foods she would not touch (not many -but the ones she had were very strong - because of her - I didn't taste a beet until I was out of college - and I love them. She could barely be in the same room with salmon) and she respected that with us. But if we were eating at someone else's house, we had to be polite and choke it down if it couldn't be taken care of gracefully.

giardiniera is the most delicious thing ever - the only way it goes bad if it gets moldy for some reason. I put it on a lot of things.
The same is true of yogurt - I eat it no matter how old unless moldy.

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Yeah my ma treated me like her personal garbage can. The last baby shower we went to - i took like one bite of what i wanted from everything at the buffet. There was more white space than food on my plate.

My mother, otoh, saw this orange creamsicle jello salad and took a big honking bowlful of it. She took one bite, then said she didnt like it and told me to eat the rest of it BECAUSE she couldnt throw it away, it would look bad.

I felt horrible. This is why i now require non-conflict foodstuffs. Me and the QShamwow guy.

We've just been here talking about the politics of food.

"Soylent Green is people!" I told you guys about how when i went to try out for Jeopardy at a chicago casino, they had millions of us shuffling along in these long, inside, disneyland lines, and after a few hours of it, i started yelling, "S G is people!"

I tend to like the salty/sweet combos. Like yogurt-covered pretzels or salted caramel ice cream.

I think it only happened twice, but my dad bought cinnamon rolls from the supermarket, just regular packaged in a rectangular aluminum tray, then he put like a whole stick of thick salted (of course) butter pats over the entire thing, and we ate it for saturday breakfast. Crazy. Crazy delicious. I think my mother had his head. He was usually pretty thin.

I like Cream of Wheat with salt and brown sugar, too. Well, now I want some of that (don't think we have any), considering it's sleeting outside right now (ugh).

Has anyone done an at-home sleep study? My doctor is ordering one for me. Sounds much better than a lab. She mainly wants to rule out apnea due to some symptoms, so not sure if it's a full sleep study or just to check oxygen levels.

I love Cream of Wheat with a little milk poured on it in the bowl. I don't put salt or anything else on it. Yum!


Stay warm!

speaking of food - h and i went for drive yesterday after i got off work to look at some different neighborhoods and we picked up dinner at an italian place we hadn't been to in a long time. i got an eggplant parmesan sandwich and it was absolutely divine!!

I did the lab sleep study. I think the only difference is that the lab you have electrodes on your head and body to detect movement and sleep stages, whereas at home it only detects breathing. Also, at home, they don't wake you up in the middle of the night if you do have sleep apnea to put on a cpap machine.

Thanks, Scarlet! That's the sense I got from the doctor, that this would just be checking oxygen levels and breathing rather than the other stuff. The doctor wants to rule out sleep apnea before potentially trying anything else for insomnia beyond what I've tried (apparently, meds like Ambien can be somewhat dangerous in someone with undiagnosed sleep apnea, I'm guessing because they knock you out too much?). She did say it's possible my grogginess the next day after trying things like Benadryl and hydroxyzine for sleep could actually be that they made the apnea worse, so I got less sleep.

They found I have horrible sleep apnea (47 times in an hour). I tried the nose mask (I'm a nose breather), but it left a rash. Now I'm waiting for the nasal pillow.

Ambien, hydroxyzine, and benadryl didn't work for me. And the side-effects of trazadone and serizone were horrid. I take doxepin and it works wonders. I also take Prozasin for nightmares at it's helping.