Monday, June 21, 2010

Wisdom For Life #1

Never buy cheap ham.

Reasons:
The flavour you're looking for will be non-existent.
The consistency will almost make you barf.
The little weird hard-to-bite spots within the "meat" will definitely make you barf.
All your other premium meal ingredients will be utterly wasted.

Example:
A nice big slice of Best-Value Ham (2kg 12 bucks).
A good portion of home-made mashed potatoes with mashed-in yam.
Three spoonfuls of imported premium quality German Sauerkraut.
A great self-made salad with organic ingredients.

What's gonna happen:
The digusting weirdness of the so called "ham" overshadowes the flavours of whatever else is on the plate. The possibility to enjoy or even savour the meal is non-existent. The urge to barf is ever-present. You force down the potato-mash, the sauerkraut, the salad, but their flavours remain pale at best. Even after removing the terrible "meat" from the plate the usual meal-associated satisfaction doesn't show.

Afterwards you feel physically full, but emotionally empty.
You throw the remaining "ham" into a garbage bag, then you take the garbage out.

Conclusion:
Never again a 12 buck ham. Lehrgeld (as they call it, learning money) nicely paid. Hopefully: Only once.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's only a small step to make a poem or a song out of this very post.

try it and make money, it worked in folk style, it will in country or whatever you like.

in other words: we want more artistic exudations!!!

yours

leonard cohen

(p.s.: what does gulki mean? ...had to enter that)

Anonymous said...

Do you require sauerkraut top-up?


Anne