Not even on a dare -

[kyburg]

Remember Iron Chef?

How about making a meal only out what you can find at a 7-11?

Check it.

I am much amused. And not at all hungry, thank you.

Comments

[caitlin.livejournal.com]

Umm...

Eew?

I think I would have preferred that sandwich you linked me to a while back.

THAT looked remotely edible. (Mind, I'm suspecting it would likely end up being party food)

This stuff, though...

EEEEwwwww...

Not that I'm all that hungry anyway. *le sigh*

C.

[pseudicide.livejournal.com]

I am so scared by all of that!!!

[annenahaymus.livejournal.com]

I would have gone with the Stoufer's frozen lasagna. And I'd have bought vanilla ice cream and topped it with the fruit compote. My 7-11 happens to have cold cuts and cheeses (though a slim selection) I'd have served that on crackers for appetizers. From some of the fresh made sandwiches there might have been enough to make salads along with some canned vegetable for the side dishes. I really liked their idea! I would have liked to see how they presented it.

What a very fun idea!

[vampireanneke.livejournal.com]

I think the problem was they were trying to make 'cuisine'. Food can be made from 7-11 stuff, just not 'cuisine'.

[bluemoonpnw.livejournal.com]

My Easter Enchiladas were much better.
It would have qualified though, everything from 7-11.
Moon

I can sympathize with their horror at the chicken stuff

[turandot.livejournal.com]

You don't really realize how gross TV dinners are until you cut them out of your life. I used to eat those things, but when I moved to Austin, and had nothing to do with myself before finding a job, I decided that since I had all that free time, I would cook as much of our meals from scratch as possible. Long story short, I haven't had a TV dinner for almost three years now.

My family in Chicago does consume them. My mom finds them convenient because she doesn't always have tine to cook, and sometimes that's all my brother will eats at home anyway.

The last time we were visiting, I had the unpleasant task of removing some of them from the microwave to use it myself (I still use microwaves to melt butter or chocolate for desserts, it's a good alternative to a double boiler, which wasn't available at my mom's). The smell was something short of sickening. I'd end up yelling at my brother for eating them. "They're all full of salt and fat" I'd yell. "That's why I eat them" he'd reply (he's blessed with one of those metabolisms that allow people to eat a whole turkey and not gain an ounce of weight btw).

I'd shudder and walk away.

Re: I can sympathize with their horror at the chicken stuff

[scrapyard.livejournal.com]

You are SO right. I ate the frozen dinners all the time up until recently, when I decided to start cooking.

Yesterday, I found a frozen dinner I had forgotten about in the lunch fridge at my work, and conveniently, that day I forgotten my lunch. So I nuclearated the frozen dinner in the company microwave, and...

oh my GOD, EW. No. Done. Never again. EW.

[http://users.livejournal.com/little_e_/]

people who have access to grocery stores are *lucky*. My first year in college (and recall that I have no car, this is boston, after all) I lived in a dorm that was so far off in the boonies that the nearest grocery store was over a mile by foot away. Let's not even discuss what carrying groceries that far when it's 20 degrees out is like.

the nearest restraunts were about a block closer than the store, but rather pricey on my budget.

so I shopped at the convinience store located next door to my dorm. it carried microwavable meals, various forms of ramen, and all of the fruit looked like it had been sitting out for two weeks, no matter when i shopped. Visiting the *big* convenience store about half a mile away in the student center induced food overload. Fresh fruit! vegetables! even a deli counter.

food that year sucked. by the end of my first year i'd developed kidneystones from eating too much salt. gee, maybe it was all the bloody ramen, microwavable meals, and every other processed food with five thousand pounds of salt in them.

Now i live next door to the grocery store. It's a much better world.