Comments on: Nice try, Mom.

By: L

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:02:21 +0000

Bread dough is the BEST. I eat like a full roll raw every time I make buns XD

By: Clumber

Clumber — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 21:52:47 +0000

oh NOOOO you don’t, Elf!
Am newly diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and you are NOT taking choc chip cookie dough away from me.

Cold, dead hands and all.

(Honest moment… I can’t even remember when i last ate cookie dough, though..5 years ago maybe? Clearly a stop at the groc is required on my way home….)

By: Nocturnesthesia

Nocturnesthesia — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:22:32 +0000

Cut the fucking crap. I don’t give a shit if you’re fat, but don’t try and be all “durr hurr medical problems” using junk science to try and justify your habits. I have a whack of health problems, some of which are known to “cause” weight gain: PCOS, narcolepsy/cataplexy, pernicious anemia, impaired thyroid function, and at one point I was on prednisone and Zyprexa at the same time (pretty much the silver bullet of fatness). And yet with careful diet control and exercising as much as I can manage, I am far from obese.
So yeah, it really fucking burns my ass when people get all self-righteous and deny responsibility for their obesity. It’s not “luck” or “high metabolism” or “good genes” that allow me to keep a healthy weight, it is meticulously counting calories and finding ways to exercise when I’m not too sick to. Again, I don’t have anything against fat people, just against fat people who are loud and vocal about blaming “medical problems”.

By: The Elf

The Elf — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:31:28 +0000

As long as you don’t have chronic health problems that would heighten your risk (like immune system problems), there’s nothing wrong with eating raw cookie dough. Sure you take a risk, but what in life isn’t risky? You take a bigger chance every time you get in a car.

So eat your raw cookie dough.
Or sushi.
Or dippy eggs.
Or very rare steak.
Or pork that’s still pink.
Or floppy bacon.
Or raw oysters and clams.
Or water from the tap.
Or unwashed fruits and veggies right from the garden.
Or raw milk and raw milk cheeses.

Some of the best foods are raw or undercooked, so live a little and indulge.

By: Tammy

Tammy — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 10:23:09 +0000

Robin,
Can we hang out?

By: Margee

Margee — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:14:01 +0000

Okay, to clarify the salad spinner issue. Sometimes after I spin the lettuce dry, I will put it in the frig until I make the salad. So…it is not all that unusual to see it in there. She told me that she was looking for lettuce.

By: Margee

Margee — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:10:48 +0000

Goose, I totally agree with your last statement about incorrect grammar. What makes me die inside even more, are all the ADULTS who cannot figure out your/you’re and there/their/they’re.

By: Margee

Margee — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 02:07:10 +0000

Jenny–what a wonderful idea! I will start keeping the forbidden foods in the vegetable drawer. They’ll never think to look there!

By: Robin

Robin — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:13:36 +0000

The correct way to eat raw cookie dough is to take a bite, then drink a swig of hard alcohol to kill the germs.

By: Rainne

Rainne — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 04:18:42 +0000

Hey, Ely, why don’t you try lightening up?

P.S. Raw chocolate chip cookie dough is delicious. Stop hating.

By: Rainne

Rainne — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 04:15:25 +0000

HELLS YES. Chocolate chip cookie dough is DELICIOUS.

And whoever said the store bought stuff is different than that which you make yourself: this is true. the self-made type is infinitely better.

By: Trekkie Gal

Trekkie Gal — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 18:08:20 +0000

I can’t believe I had to scroll all the way down the page before I found someone else who wondered this. No wonder the daughter found the dough – an “empty” salad spinner in the fridge is suspicious.

By: Jenny

Jenny — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 17:31:29 +0000

Margee, your daughter is much smarter than we were! (And not just because of her excellent grammar.)

My parents told us last year (I’m 34!) that our ENTIRE CHILDHOOD they had kept chocolate, cookie dough, and mini Snickers (their own guilty pleasures) in the one of the vegetable drawers. There are four of us, and though when we were all teenagers we were constantly scrounging for snacks (and sugar wasn’t generally allowed in our house, so we were extra gung ho for it), not a single one of us ever discovered it.

Thanks for the laugh!

By: goose

goose — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:20:37 +0000

I was once told by a professional chef that sugar will sterilize an egg when added in sufficient amounts. That’s why Orange Julius hasn’t been sued to the moon yet. That not only made me eat it raw, but I even enjoyed it. It was only the chocolate allergy that made me stop attacking the brownie batter before it went into the oven. Carob has literally stopped me from committing felonious assaults more than once.
As for her grammar, it makes me a little weepy to see correct usage for a change. I’m a writing tutor, I’ve seen all ages and grades miff up the basics. A little of me dies sometimes.