April 29th, 2009
#752 – Frijoles
I have discovered that eating cereal out of a giant serving bowl is awkward. It’s really hard to get the correct ratio of cereal to milk. Eating out of bizarre containers is kind of like the weird clothes you wear on laundry day. What’s your favorite non-standard eating situation?
April 29th, 2009 at 12:03 am
I have won many of these, through underhanded tactics like eating out….
April 29th, 2009 at 12:05 am
Oatmeal in a coffee mug.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Oh geez…. Don’t get me started on this. My roommate only does the dishes when he’s pissed off and wants me to feel bad for being lazy. It doesn’t work when I’m the only one who vacuums, does the dishes, or any other sort of general cleaning. In the 2 1/2 years we’ve lived together, he’s NEVER cleaned any part of the bathroom.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:09 am
I’ve always been fond of using one of those long spoon made for shakes and a glass to eat cereal when I was low on options….
I’m leaning towards the “food situations when rooming with someone” week
April 29th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Oatmeal in a coffee mug isn’t nearly hardcore-survivalist enough. Backpacking technique: put hot water in the oatmeal packet and eat it straight outta there. Otherwise, I actually wash my dishes promptly (it’s easier if you don’t let it dry, after all), so it doesn’t come up.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:10 am
I’d have to say using a napkin as a plate. Also, this definitely has to be roommates week.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:17 am
I once hollowed out a bread roll and stuffed it with dry cereal. My breakfast, finally as portable as my coffee
My coffee cup only gets washed when it happens to be on the sink when I wash the dishes, otherwise I just rinse it with scalding water until it’s cleaner than a much-loved CD before I use it.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:23 am
Since there were no cups left, I drank water out of a cereal bowl.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:25 am
I believe Shorty called it.
Well, if I don’t have any celery, I’ll put chocolate chips on a spoonful of peanut butter. It’s a lot harder to call it a healthy snack that way.
Also, one time at camp we put some burger, onions, carrots and other veggies, along with sliced potatoes, into a self-made aluminum foil pouch. We went on a hike and camped out in the woods, and when dinner came we just through the pouches into the fire and got them out with a poker, and after the foil cooled we just ate them right there. It was the most fun camping meal ever.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:25 am
Hmm…. I don’t recall what the strangest thing I’ve ever eaten out of is, but I do remember one “Dishes War” between me and my housemates that went on so long that the dishes became infested with maggots. I don’t recommend you let it escalate that far.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:34 am
good call Shorty
April 29th, 2009 at 12:41 am
an old Etch-a-Sketch. I am so ashamed…
April 29th, 2009 at 12:58 am
so whos he warring with, the toaster?
April 29th, 2009 at 1:45 am
I once ate dry cereal and milk out of a cup sinc.e we were out of bowls.
Not that hardcore, but it was particularly easy to drink the milk afterward.
April 29th, 2009 at 2:08 am
when i run out of milk, bowls, and spoons, and eat my cheerios and rice crispies with orange juice out of a glass with a titanium spork. this happens more often than i care to admit. also, any non-sugary cereal works great in orange juice.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:08 am
I actually have a large glass mixing bowl that is mine (as opposed to family property) and which I use exclusively for the huge servings of pasta I take down to my room so I can lurk without going up for refills.
For odd things though, you’d have to go to the holdovers from my childhood. (eg. rubbing nutritional years into cauliflower florettes) At least it’s not as bad as when I WAS a kid. (eg. wrapping almond butter and pieces of strawberries in cheese slices… which even I quickly lost my taste for)
April 29th, 2009 at 3:16 am
A friend of my brother’s once ate cereal (Including milk!) out of his shirt pocket with a spoon..
April 29th, 2009 at 3:35 am
I’ve been eating out of the same tupperware bowl for what… years now? not extreme in any sort of fashion, but I’ve once combed my hair with a fork though.
April 29th, 2009 at 3:45 am
I hear on the roommate thing. He’ll do JUST his things. It’s kind of like going to a resturant and paying EXACTLY your part of the bill, no tax or tip. He’s never cleaned the bathroom, swept a floor or cleaned the oven or counter. The dishes were a big issue when we were sharing meals – it got bad enough that he was eating out of tupperware containers at one point because he just wouldn’t do them. Heaven forbid he wash a plate that he didn’t eat off.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:19 am
@ Mike Chapman: I did the foil pouch thing in Outdoor Education, only I ended up putting too much pepper on mine and made myself sick lol.
I have a huge cappuccino mug that I regularly eat cereal and oatmeal out of. I love that thing…the handle makes it so much easier to eat on the couch instead of at the table lol.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:21 am
I think the best (worst?) I’ve done would be along the lines of dipping my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in glasses of milk. But they come out soggy and good, so that’s okay. 83
April 29th, 2009 at 5:40 am
The most extreme Thing I pulled off was eating Cereals right out the Pack and flushing them down with Milk right outa the Pack.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:38 am
I once made coffee by tying a clean cloth over an ice cube tray and manually pouring the water over the coffee grounds.
Actually, I just didn’t want to get up to get the coffeepot/mug out of the dishwasher.
It was ok, but your hand gets tired.
April 29th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Hey, who does biff live with?
April 29th, 2009 at 7:03 am
cold soup, straight from the can.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:09 am
These are cracking me up.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:10 am
Ceviche…out of a beautiful girl’s navel.
April 29th, 2009 at 7:56 am
I like eating when you’re moving and you haven’t got most of your stuff over to your new place yet. It’s really fun to try to home-cook a meal and not have half a home to cook it in. You have to do a lot of improvising, like when someone just gets fed up looking for the damn can opener and stabs the accursed can with a steak knife.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:41 am
When we were at the Wacken Open Air Festival we used to eat ravioli, like everyone does. We were to lazy to bring enough plates for everyone and we had this saltstick-boxes. It were two boxes of saltsticks put together, the one was for free or something. So we ate all the saltsticks from the one box and filled the Ravioli in there. That was neat, because you could eat them together with the saltsticks from the second box.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Back at my parents’ house, I still have this giant spoon (it’s almost a soup ladel) that I would eat cereal with. I, too, would also put them in a mixing/serving bowl.
I never had a problem with the cereal:milk ratio, when the cereal is gone, I just drink the milk
Can’t ever have too much!
April 29th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Pouring milk into the cereal box and discovering the plastic bag is not leakproof.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:42 am
My wife regularly serves us (son and I) up on plates, then eats hers out of the skillet… And uses an oversized cappuccino cup as her favorite bowl.
Me personally? Cooler food as dish is probably the weirdest. I’ve used bread to set hotter food on, eaten the hot food, then munched on the bread. Some fried rice on a lettuce leaf ‘bowl’ in my hand is the best though.
And I think it’s more of a ‘what Biff would do with a roommate’ than ‘Ziggy and Biff have some interesting times as roommates’. That said, I am hoping to see how Chris draws someone else one of these days!
April 29th, 2009 at 10:18 am
Cereal in a glass is a popular one.
When none of my glasses are clean, I pull out a Monster (energy drink), chug it, cut the top off, and put the cereal in there instead.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:55 am
I think the Etch-a-Sketch is the clear winner.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:56 am
Does nobody here sink eat? This is where you don’t WANT to do dishes or dirty anything because your wife will get annoyed at you for not putting it all in the dishwasher, running said dishwasher, along with everything else, etc.
The tactic is to make a sandwich or other easy to fix snack and then eat it over the clean sink. Crumbs, drippings, everything else just goes into the sink. At the end, you just hose it all down the drain and voila!
Dishes? What dishes?
April 29th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
This one made me thing of the british series Black Books, because in on episode Manny eats screambled eggs with a comb on a shoe.
April 29th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
My best improvised tools of eating…Hmm, let’s see…(so many to chose from)…Naturally, there’s times when I just use my hands. In the mornings when I was busy but wanted waffles, I’d use butter and cinnamon sugar on them in place of the drippy syrup. I’d also put random things into tortillas for the same reason. Mac and Cheese was now portable and you didn’t need to worry about clean up.
However, actually using an unusual item to eat off of/with, I would have to say that award goes to a plank of wood wrapped in a big leaf and two broken, flat head screw drivers (they had their handles missing) that were used as chop sticks. We had unexpected guests stay for dinner, not enough time to run the dishes, and I had ended up at the end of the line, when all of the mixing bowls and large spoons were used up.
Usually in those situations, we’d just wash a couple of plates by hand, but I was hungry, impatient, and those guests were long time friends of the family, so it wasn’t like I was making anyone uncomfortable.
Btw, I just recently found your site through an ad on another webcomic’s site. I hooked so badly that I read through all of the archives within a week. ^_^ Thanks for making such an enjoyable webcomic!
April 29th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
@pickledchair – Yay! New readers are great!
April 29th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
the bottom of springform pans make great plates, and also covers for pots and pans when one doesn’t have any. although i suppose having six of them in various sizes helps. pitas also make for wonderful handheld meals, they turn nearly ANYTHING into portable food. especially when it’s necessary to avoid a roommate’s flatware because, while it’s been washed, it’s still covered with food.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
My little sister used to dip slices of ham directly into a jar of mayonnaise and eat it. She thought it was delicious… I almost puke when I think about it. She only stopped because I told her that she was going to clog her arteries and die… She was 9 at the time.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
Drinking applesauce from a cup is my favorite combo. When I go to college in a few months, that’ll be my primary study snack, I’m sure.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I have eaten cereal out of the dent in my chest its called Pectus excavatum and mine is perfect for cereal bt i am worried about if i will grow chest hair in it lol
April 29th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
almost any liquid from a massive bowl that my friend has at his house>.> i most recently made a bloodbowl with it (almost half filled it with vodka and the rest with A&W fruit juice and orange juice)
April 29th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
Yeah, I’m surprised no one has mentioned using empty soda bottles as cups… just need a funnel.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
ooohhh, it must be roommates and food week!
April 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
At Summer Camp one year we had to eat our food (soup and spaghetti) out of cut-in-half half-gallon milk cartons for a couple of days because the company that supplied our disposable cooking supplies, paper plates and utensils lost the purchase order.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Anything-I-can-stab-on-a-stick food while camping. Also using chopsticks to eat yoghurt. I’m not sure why I thought that might be fun.
I think the Etch-a-Sketch and the screwdriver chopsticks win.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
I have actually eaten cereal from my shoe. It was a bet, though.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Combine two of my guesses
Other people and food. It might be breakfast but i cannot tell what is in the shoe.
April 29th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
I’ve eaten dessert with chopsticks, used paper towel as a plate, and used glass bowls to drink water out of. Or I’d just bend down and drink water directly from the water cooler. No cups that way! But I usually just leave a cup lying around that I continually fill with water when I want some. :]
April 29th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Ahh, yes…Who hasn’t had a dishes war? Roommate Archive: Having cooked Thanksgiving, I refused to wash up; ended up stacking the dishes in the driveway, the wildlife tidied them up, it snowed & the dishes were ‘lost’…I think we ran over them before spring thaw! There was no winner in this war, we switched to paper plates until we parted ways!
April 29th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Also about the strangest food I have eaten.
I have not eaten off of that strange things but Turrets syndrome (which I was recently undiagnosed with (yes i stopped having a mental disorder)) has caused me to eat some very strange things.
You know like Uranium and other rocks.
I am better at eating things that are less well inedible, mostly i chew on stuff.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I have to say my favourite out of the ordinary eating situation is eating Kraft dinner out of the pot with the spoon I cooked it with, but sometimes I like to use corn chips like Tostitos and scoop them up. It is good.
April 29th, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Seriously, Has no-one ever eaten soup out of a potato chip bag (stew actualy), really?
April 29th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I should have given a better example of what i used to eat, cause I thought about it and salt is a rock.
Also sea salt contains Uranium, not much mind you but it dose contain Uranium.
April 29th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
I sometimes eat cereal out of a paper bag. When I’m in a rush in the morning and I don’t feel like trying to find a container then FIND the proper lid, I whip out a bag.
And yeah, I guess this is “roommates” week as someone already said.
April 29th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
Hm. Only things that occur to me is taking a pancake, folding it into a tube, pouring some syrup into the tube, and eating it whole like that, for the purpose of drowning out the taste of some awful eggs I had eaten.
And mash potatos once with no spoon, fork, or any other implement. Fingers only.
April 30th, 2009 at 12:16 am
My best would have to be burnt toast trays.
Nobody wanted to wash dishes, so I made toast, portable, right?
I burned it, and then used it as a tray to transport some mini pizza bagles.
Best. Mistake. Ever
April 30th, 2009 at 5:23 am
@Wolfgang Cloud: I’ve done that before, even when there were bowls and spoons clean in the house. My feeling is why dirty up more dishes than necessary? lol
April 30th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
One time we were out of milk, but I was very hungry for cereal. So I got 2 slices of bread covered one side of each with peanut butter, and put a big pile of Lucky Charms right in the middle and made a cereal sandwich.
I still actually do that every now and then, even when we have milk.
April 30th, 2009 at 11:07 pm
I often toss a couple of frozen waffles into the toaster in the morning, then get dressed and ready. When I come back, I take them out and pour the syrup into the little nooks and make a sandwich. It’s no mess and yummy. I’ve eaten salad with chopsticks because there were no forks. I like to just use a big spoon for my ice-cream if I don’t feel like getting a bowl and can’t eat from the carton. Who can say they haven’t used a big cup for cereal or a napkin for a plate?
May 1st, 2009 at 1:39 am
Drinking homebrewed apple-blackcurrant cider out of a measuring jug whilst eating fruit loops out of a tupperware box.
Best.
Sharehouse.
Evarr.
May 1st, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Large, glass Purex measuring cups are great. I mean, no one can honestly say that they WEREN’T made to be eaten out of. Cutting boards are great to eat off of, too, since there are 2 even sides.
But my typical solution is lots of small sauce pans. You make a meal, eat from the pan, then put the lid on and store the left-overs in the fridge.
May 1st, 2009 at 10:31 pm
I usually have my morning soup in a massive coffee mug. It’s too big for actual coffee, but the best part is that it somehow retains the warmth o the soup for at least 30 minutes after the soup is gone, so it’s a godsend on a cold morning.
Dishes get done nightly at my place, or twice daily when there’s baking going on. We only have three mixing bowls and two measuring jugs, and only one set of measuring cups and spoons, so it has to be that way when baking.
May 2nd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
When I was in Boy Scouts, we always tried to make things food that didn’t require dishes. For breakfast, if we had pancakes, we would take the pancake in our hand, pour syrup on the top and then fold it over so the syrup doesn’t drip on your hands.
May 2nd, 2009 at 11:23 pm
I have eaten out of cups and foil bowls before. I would say that eating a salad with a spoon is the best/worst I have done.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Lunakrypt, you’re amazing. That has to be one of the craziest, most awesome things to eat I’ve ever heard of. I mean seriously, that is win.
Sometimes, in need of a plate, but unwilling to wash anything, my flatmate and I have been known to tear up old cardboard boxes for makeshift plates.
May 5th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
so one time we were out of cups, and for whatever reason we had an ubundance of bendy straws… anyway, I ended up sticking the straw into the water dispencer of my fridge, and using that for about a week… yeah… hardcore…
May 6th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Eating salad with a pocket knife…very carefully. However, my stupidest idea was orange juice in a bag, and since I was unable to find a straw (bagged juice tends to slosh around everywhere), I decided to use a spent shell casing that was lying around, minus the primer of course. Needless to say, the taste of gunpowder and primer residue does little to improve the flavor of OJ.
May 9th, 2009 at 12:48 am
A roommate and myself once had a hankering for some coffee. We had mugs, grinds, and hot water, but no filters. No paper towels even (which work like a hot damn if you just make a funnel out of them over the cup). In the end we found a pair of old work jeans and… yes. Jean-coffee. It was the hardest-won cuppa I’ve ever had, and it was terr… wonderful.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
W-
o_o
My cat is giving me a huge freaking death-glare right now. Seriously, its disconcerting.
*Train of thought, it kaploded.*
Uhm, crap, what was i gonna post…
If I remember it later I’ll post again o_o Most I’ve ever done that I can remember this very second was using a shake spoon with a huge mixing bowl we used to use for eggs on sundays to have cereal in.
I’mma go hide now before my cat tries to kill me and wear my skin as a hat. o_o
May 10th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
We went on a camping trip and forgot… well almost everything really… so we cut up 2 soda cans with a piece of broken glass to cook our carne asada and chicken over a coleman stove, and boiled water in a pan we found sitting alongside the trail.
May 11th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
My weirdest one is definately not work safe lol. That’s all I’m gonna say. No room mates to bother me either, but then again, I still have yet to move away from the parents… So yeah.
May 11th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
Oh, wait, I got a safe one. I once ate screambled eggs off my bass guitar because I was practicing with it and was too lazy to clean a plate. That’s about it aside from the NSFW one.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
About the weirdest thing I’ve done is eat jello with a straw. I usually have enough dishes that are at least approximately the right size that I won’t run out before I wash more. Although I do tend to schedule my eating around the dishes. “Okay, no clean soup bowls, no soup or cereal for a while. I’m out of table knives, no sandwiches… Guess it’s Hot Pockets.”
May 21st, 2009 at 7:20 am
Try a three course meal all liquefied together and then eaten out of the blender through a straw.
Having your wisdom teeth out sucks.
June 21st, 2009 at 1:41 pm
so i discovered that if you take notecards, like the ones u take notes on in english class for those giant research projects, and make a circle and lay them on top of each other you can actually support items such as food on them, works just as well as a plate…aside from hot/wet items clinging to them…and the fact that is not exactly stable…then again ive never actually sat down and planned it out to be all that stable…just enough to the point to where i have to keep a hand under or something flat
August 12th, 2009 at 1:59 am
My favorite awkward eating routine? Eating Chicken Noodle Soup through a straw. Me and my friend wanted chicken soup at two in the morning and were too lazy to wach dishes so we grabbed some bendy straws and started sucking! We did hafta pick out the chicken bits and eat them with our fingers though.
October 6th, 2009 at 7:15 am
There are currently no clean dishes to be found anywhere in the house, with the exception of my cup (which I hide because it’s MY cup) and my Titanium spork (secreted in my mission pack). I will break down and wash all the dishes tomorrow, primarily because I hate it when people decide it’s okay to drink straight from the Brita water pitcher rather than wash any of the dishes they dirties.
December 10th, 2009 at 8:44 pm
Frisbee and chopsticks, don’t remember the food.
December 21st, 2009 at 5:40 pm
The backside of a used paper plate with broken pieces of a glass for silverware….. I was desperate. And moving out.
Fried rice off my key board, the back of my school books, straight off the table, ect. There are reasons why my current roommate never lets the dishes pile up.