Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Testing Blues

This is the fifth time I'm taking this test, and I don't understand what the hell is so important about it. I mean, I don't even care about this stuff. Who does? What will I ever need to know it for? I mean, the teacher's pretty nice and I don't want to insult her, but it's not my fault she chose a job where she needs to talk about this stuff all the time. So anyway, the topic doesn't interest me, and I'm just not gonna write about it.

Instead, I'm gonna talk about what I had for dinner last night. We had steak and rice. Now, where we come from, we eat rice all the time, so you kind of have to have it. Steak is something we don't always have. I kind of like it medium-rare, but last night, I gotta say, my mom overcooked it a little. That was fine with my family, who likes it like that. They like it cooked until it cracks, and if the texture is like a pair of Florsheims, they're good with that. But at my girlfriend's house, they grill it and don't cook it so much, so I really like that better.

We also had cauliflower. Now, to me, cauliflower is kind of like the bastard stepchild of broccoli. I mean, why do we need that stuff? You could just eat broccoli. Cauliflower smells kind of funky when you cook it, and that's a real turn-off for me. I mean, by the time it hits the plate, you're just kind of turned off. However, I was at this chicken take-out joint on Long Island, and they had this mashed cauliflower that was really not bad. I mean, if you didn't think about it, you wouldn't know it was cauliflower.

So anyway, in conclusion, from now on, I'm gonna try and eat at my girlfriend's house as much as possible. Her parents really know how to cook. And if you don't like the essay, please feel free to give me extra credit for this cool dinosaur.

Thank you for reading this, and have a nice day.

5 comments:

  1. I noticed that...8:08 PM

    The best line:  "We also had cauliflower. Now, to me, cauliflower is kind of like the bastard stepchild of broccoli."

    Love it! 

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  2. Thanks. Loved your comment yesterday about Mayor4Life. Actually, I've just been informed by a reliable source that it's the other way around. Broccoli is a hybrid of rabe and cauliflower.  Who would've thunk it?

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  3. I noticed that...7:40 PM

    Thank you for your kind words.

    If broccoli is a hybrid of rabe and cauliflower, where did it get its name?  I would have called it caulirabe!  Now it sounds like a foreign name.  I'll stick to the broccoli with plenty of cheese on it.

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  4.  Turns out, after I checked, that this is a story Albert Broccoli told the NY Times, which they printed, but appears not to be true at all.

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  5. I noticed that...5:10 PM

    Ahhh the saga of the broccoli and its origin. No matter how the name was derived, I love it steamed with plenty of cheese.  Some things should stay a mystery.  Thank goodness that my evaluation is not based on my thorough knowledge of vegetables.  Well at least it's not "junk" food!

    ;-D

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