Fruit that looks like Cheese & Other Eating Adventures

 

This is what I ate and drank yesterday:

Breakfast, in the office, with co-workers:

• One Einstein’s sesame seed bagel with plain cream cheese
• One lemon curd iced pastry thingie from Costco
• One can Diet Coke

Lunch, at a Thai place near the office, with a co-worker:

• All the carrots, some of the lettuce, none of the tomatoes (tomatoes are yucky) from the tiny salad that came with my combo lunch
• Some of the soup
• All the chicken, all the potatoes and some of the onions from the yellow curry
• Some of the plain white rice
• All of the crisp fried thingies that came with the lunch (not exactly sure what these were – perhaps a wonton wrapper or something of that ilk?)
• A tiny green candy (apple flavored, I think, although it could have been lime) that came with the check
• Iced water

Afternoon snack, at my desk:

• The thin layer of chocolate fudgy topping that was on the brownie that one of the catering staff working an event in the same building gave me (he has a crush on one of my co-workers and he is always bringing in stuff for her. I have guilted him into including me on some of his giveaways but not all (although she did once end up giving me the stuff he gave to just her one time, so there)). I didn’t eat the brownie because it had nuts in it and I only like nuts when they are salted and eaten alongside a cold beer. Oh! Is that where the name beer nuts comes from? Talk amongst yourselves while I do some online research. (Doo-dee-doo-dee-do-dee-doo.) Nope, it is just a brand name that came about because the nuts were sold in bars. Where there is beer.
• Iced water

Dinner, at Del Frisco’s (yeah, you read that right – Del-fricking-Frisco’s!!!)

• Some grapes, a few cubes of cheese, a few small slices of a salami-like meat, one cracker, and one cube of a fruit that I thought was a cheese (I had more on my plate but once I realized it was fruit and not cheese I did not eat any more (fruit, yuck). (Grapes don’t count because they create wine so they are exalted.))
• Two prime rib BLT sliders with the L and the T taken off (because I already had my share of L at lunch and I hate Ts (see above))
• One grilled lamb chop lollipop thingie with béarnaise sauce
• One and a half Philly cheese steak egg rolls (sounds like it wouldn’t work, right? Wrong – these were orgasmic)
• The bread part of a tuna tartare bruschetta (only the bread because the topping had way too many tomatoes (see above times two) and well, I am sorry, if g*d had meant us to eat raw food he would never have invented fire)
• One green jelly bean
• Two glasses of white wine
• At least two glasses of red wine (I kind of lost count when I switched to red and the waiter was filling up as he went around the tables, there was no ordering of rounds involved)

So I hear you all ask, what is so extra special about yesterday’s food intake that I thought it merited a blog post? (Apart from the fact that there was a ton of it (excessive even for me) and now you all realize why I have 17 chins, high cholesterol and an ass that will soon need its own zip code should it get any bigger.) Well, for one, I have very little to write about these days, as previously stated.

Secondly, all the meals were just fun and not one was eaten alone which is rare in my lonely life. Breakfast was during our weekly staff meeting; lunch was with a co-worker; and dinner was at Del Frisco’s after another work meeting. I have never been there (because money). It was just my co-workers (because they are pretty much the only people I know in Vegas). Various apps were shared amongst the group and it was all very casual. Well, as casual as it gets in a place like Del Frisco’s (an aside: when I went to look up their menu, Google brought up Del Taco before it brought up Del Frisco’s. Getting dissed by Google is a very painful thing).

But most remarkable of all is that, apart from the Diet Coke, I did not pay for a single thing (breakfast provided by the company, lunch paid for by my co-worker (I had partially paid for her lunch on a previous occasion) and dinner, once again, on the company). Score! And I purchased that Diet Coke about two or three pay cycles ago so technically it does not count.