My leukemia's back.

[lazy gardener]

 

[bruceha2000]

I threw out all the Christmas cookies I made too. Since we didn't make it to my brother's house last week, it was just sitting around here barely being snacked on. I don't need it and DH is having dental problems and can't eat a lot.

Surely there is SOMEONE in town that would have enjoyed those cookies!! No food shelf, church, etc??

and a 1/4 of Ken's rodeo burger.

He must really love you if he's willing to give up 1/4 of his dinner!

 

[Blooie]

I just bat the baby blues, Bruce. Actually he has never been able to finish one, so he cuts it half, then one half again, and I get the 1/4 one because that's about all I can eat when I have my bowl of soup. But yep, he loves me. He'd better - got a 50 year anniversary coming up!

 

[bruceha2000]

This coming year???

Ken isn't a tiny person, those burgers must be HUGE!

 

[Blooie]

Yep, actually it's February 29th but there isn't one again this year, so the 28th will have to do. I have a PFT and a pulmonary appointment that same day, so we'll be up in Billings anyway so he can take me to a nice dinner afterwards.

And those rodeo burgers are HUGE! Sometimes I think it's obscene how big many restaurants make their portions. When it takes 2 people to finish one burger, there could be an issue.

 

[bruceha2000]

Oh heck @Blooie, I was going to surprise you by remembering that!!

When it takes 2 people to finish one burger, there could be an issue.

I understand there is an obesity problem in this country.

 

[lazy gardener]

I just bat the baby blues, Bruce. Actually he has never been able to finish one, so he cuts it half, then one half again, and I get the 1/4 one because that's about all I can eat when I have my bowl of soup. But yep, he loves me. He'd better - got a 50 year anniversary coming up!

You do realize that his cutting and then cutting his burger again is really a self serving/self perservation tactic, don't you? Any food item, when cut in half has a reverse synergistic property. Where by the sum of the parts is less than the whole. The energy expended in cutting a food item in half results in calories leaking out through the cut. (that's why food smells so good. It's cause all those calories are floating around in the air.)

For instance, a home made chocolate chip cookie has 110 calories. Of course, this is a dubious statement. Cause we all know that a large amount of the dough gets consumed before the cookies even make it into the oven. But, let's just assume that the person making the cookies actually follows the directions, and spoons wimpy sized portions into the pan, instead of making monstrous gigantic cookies.

So... 110 calories per cookie. You then cut that cookie in half. Each half cookie now has 50 calories. If you then cut one of those halves again, you now have 1/2 cookie which equals 50 calories, and 2 quarter cookies, each one equal to 20 calories. Note, that when the soft cookie is cut, the edges of the cut get compressed. This is where a lot of those calories go. They are compressed calories, there fore not worth as much as a fluffy calorie. So... if you cut the remaining 1/2 into 1/4's, you have decreased your gross calories to a net of 80 calories. If each of those 4 pieces are consumed slowly, with tiny bites, even more energy is expended and more calories leak out into the surrounding environment.

So, when Ken cuts his burger in half, then cuts one half into quarters, he is really changing that fat laden burger into a diet food. It's a wonder the poor man is not reduced to skin and bones from all of his sacrificial loving!

 

[Alaskan]

You do realize that his cutting and then cutting his burger again is really a self serving/self perservation tactic, don't you? Any food item, when cut in half has a reverse synergistic property. Where by the sum of the parts is less than the whole. The energy expended in cutting a food item in half results in calories leaking out through the cut. (that's why food smells so good. It's cause all those calories are floating around in the air.)

For instance, a home made chocolate chip cookie has 110 calories. Of course, this is a dubious statement. Cause we all know that a large amount of the dough gets consumed before the cookies even make it into the oven. But, let's just assume that the person making the cookies actually follows the directions, and spoons wimpy sized portions into the pan, instead of making monstrous gigantic cookies.

So... 110 calories per cookie. You then cut that cookie in half. Each half cookie now has 50 calories. If you then cut one of those halves again, you now have 1/2 cookie which equals 50 calories, and 2 quarter cookies, each one equal to 20 calories. Note, that when the soft cookie is cut, the edges of the cut get compressed. This is where a lot of those calories go. They are compressed calories, there fore not worth as much as a fluffy calorie. So... if you cut the remaining 1/2 into 1/4's, you have decreased your gross calories to a net of 80 calories. If each of those 4 pieces are consumed slowly, with tiny bites, even more energy is expended and more calories leak out into the surrounding environment.

So, when Ken cuts his burger in half, then cuts one half into quarters, he is really changing that fat laden burger into a diet food. It's a wonder the poor man is not reduced to skin and bones from all of his sacrificial loving!

 

[sourland]

I am going to break all food into many pieces from now on. What a way to diet.

 

[Blooie]

LG, you're a caution, you are!!