Saturday, January 31, 2009

Serving Size [chat]

So the serving size information on this jar of pickles is for 1/3 of a pickle. Every whole pickle, it turns out, is three servings of pickle. I think I am ok with this. I would, however, like for them to change it from "serving size" to "nutritional information for an arbitrary designation of food measurement". If only because the present situation seems to suggest that one ought to remove a pickle from the jar, cut 1/3 off, consume that third, and return the remaining 2/3 to the jar.

And to no civilized people is that proper pickle etiquette.

29 comments:

Mike Lewis said...

i never look at the nutritional information and serving size when i eat food. I just eat it all. if something bad happens, i don't eat it again. This is why i eat a whole box of cookies at a time.

don't judge me.

_J_ said...

I eat that which I am compelled to eat. This is how I keep my slim girlish figure.

Still, though, I find it enjoyable to read nutritional information. If only so that I can go "Wow, this is really bad for me! Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom"

Andrew said...

we played imagineiff this weekend.
you remember, the game that offended amanda.
well oddly enough, J's girlish figure came up on multiple occasions.

_J_ said...

I'm so hott.

And now I have to try and reasion with whom you played based upon who would know how hot I am.

Andrew said...

oh that could be a fun game. guess.

Mike Lewis said...

i am going to guess jolly right off the bat, that way i can get some points.

Brian Jolly has always had a think for jay's girlish figure.

Roscoe said...

Clearly, you were out clubbing with Emma Watson, to J's deep chagrin.

Anonymous said...

Andrew has also been known to club baby seals with Emma Watson. Much to jays dislike.

Roscoe said...

No comment from Emma on how she feels about the situation, yet.

Andrew said...

haha

_J_ said...

Emma Watson is so hot.

_J_ said...

They closed campus on account of three inches of snow / ice.

Pussies.

_J_ said...

Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To 'Savage Sword Of Conan' #24

Roscoe and I know what this is like.

Mike Lewis said...

the world feels much better now that there is a nerd in the white house.

it as if Scott Pilgrim vol. 5 comes out next week

OH!!! Scott Pilgrim vol. 5 does come out next week. what a wonderful world we live in!

_J_ said...

Moer Liek "what a wonderful world in which we live".

Srsly, though, I've had it up to here with people not getting my references.

And it's not even as if I'm going for obscure shit. I say "it's Hoth cold" and they just stare at me like morons.

FUCK!

Mike Lewis said...

Thank you Dan Savage, thank you very much

_J_ said...

...

Wait...so Christianity has been nothing but a plan to convince women that anal > vaginal?

...my god...I've been wrong all these years.

Thank you, Christianity!

Mike Lewis said...

@Jay: /shudder

Andrew said...

Its cold here.
Most of louisville is without power.
I am without power and water. this sucks. luckily kind strangers took me in and nursed me back to health. for a reference to what it is like here...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=977QT-NjhZ8
all i wanted was some soup...

Mike Lewis said...

last night MSNBC reported that some parts of north text might not get power back until the middle of february

_J_ said...

Man, I can't tell you how many days of my life have been perfectly captured by episodes of X-Men.

Unknown said...

So, in the end, the kind strangers gassed you then captured you with giant robots?

Andrew said...

north text?

_J_ said...

"So, in the end, the kind strangers gassed you then captured you with giant robots?"

Like I said...perfectly captured

_J_ said...

Apparently my account on the PA forums became unjailed after about a year.

Good times shall once again be had.

_J_ said...

Oh, I've forgotten how much I've missed the PA forums.

From the new "No, you cannot have your name changed" FAQ:

If I allow people to PM me for name changes, it is literally the only thing I have time to do. You should have chosen the name you wanted at registration. Think hard about it, because once you have the name it is not getting changed. I don't care if your name is Mr Clown and your parents get killed by a clown and every time you see your name you sick up in your mouth and start crying and you inhale the sick through your sobs and choke and spew blood up onto your monitor. You should have thought of that eventuality before you registered.

MA17 said...

I'm probably late to the part on this, but I was watching that stupid fucking X-Men 3: Everybody In! the other day and it occurred to me that Kelsey Grammar was playing a blue, bookish freak in a comic-book-movie, kind of like how David Hyde Pierce played a blue, bookish freak in a comic-book-movie a few years before. In short, I think there is a real-life episode of Frasier playing out right under our noses!

MA17 said...

Universal Soldiers (Not Universal Soldier, mind you) has all the barely-provoked screaming matches and blind fury of Crash, and all the tiresome walking the fuck around in the mountains of Lord of the Rings.

Misinterpretation: Universal Soldiers is like Crash meets Lord of the Rings.

MA17 said...

I'm getting really sick of the badass girl cliche in movies, especially when she is just a heavy-weapons burly man recast as a girl. Low-budget Full Metal Jacket remake would cast the director's girlfriend as Animal Mother.