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?
I have won many of these, through underhanded tactics like eating out….
Oatmeal in a coffee mug.
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.
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
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.
I’d have to say using a napkin as a plate. Also, this definitely has to be roommates week.
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.
Since there were no cups left, I drank water out of a cereal bowl.
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.
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.
good call Shorty
an old Etch-a-Sketch. I am so ashamed…
so whos he warring with, the toaster?
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.
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.
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)
A friend of my brother’s once ate cereal (Including milk!) out of his shirt pocket with a spoon..
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.
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.
@ 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.
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
The most extreme Thing I pulled off was eating Cereals right out the Pack and flushing them down with Milk right outa the Pack.
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.
Hey, who does biff live with?
cold soup, straight from the can.
These are cracking me up.
Ceviche…out of a beautiful girl’s navel.
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.
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.
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!
Pouring milk into the cereal box and discovering the plastic bag is not leakproof.
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!
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.
I think the Etch-a-Sketch is the clear winner.
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?
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
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)
Yeah, I’m surprised no one has mentioned using empty soda bottles as cups… just need a funnel.
ooohhh, it must be roommates and food week!
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.
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.
I have actually eaten cereal from my shoe. It was a bet, though.
Combine two of my guesses
Other people and food. It might be breakfast but i cannot tell what is in the shoe.
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. :]