Thursday, February 19, 2009

Today's lesson from NSR* University

If a product is called microwave popcorn, it is designed to be used in the microwave. Not the stove top.




backstory: we are currently without a microwave. Our microwave saga is as follows - when we moved from Phoenix to Savannah, we had brought our relatively new microwave with us. As it turned out, the house we moved in to also had a relatively new microwave, so we stuck our microwave into the storage closet at that house and used that microwave.

When we moved from Savannah to the grossest city on the planet Corpus Christi, we knew that the new house had a microwave in the kitchen, so we left both of our microwaves in Savannah.

When we moved from Savannah here to the left side of the country, we'd never actually been inside this house and when our new landlord had told us that the house came with "all appliances", we assumed that this included a microwave. We assumed wrong. So we've been nearly two weeks without a microwave and, as odd as it may seem, it really hasn't affected life much. Until last night when my husband decided that he would die without some microwave popcorn.

"Let's just cook it on the stove," my brilliant child brilliantly suggests.

I immediately recognize this as a terrible idea, but the husband and child refuse to admit this and insist upon trying to do it.

Guess what? The popcorn came out burnt, chewy and gross.

Alternate lesson of the day? I know my shit in the kitchen, don't question it.


* No Shit Really University

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