I don't think I'm the only one that
does this. I know at least one of my aunts told me she does (though
her often bought item is sauerkraut). You go to the grocery store and
get things you think you need and, even if you have a list, you pass
by that one thing and think, “I'm not sure I have any of that, I
think I may need it,” only to get home and discover you already
have not one but multiple boxes/cans/etc. waiting for you.
For me that item is refried beans. I
have not one but four cans of refried beans and, on the rare occasion
I use them, one can can get me through two or three meals. Refried
beans are about the least versatile food there is, it's basically
have them in a tortilla, on a tortilla, or with tortilla chips.
Why can't my item be something like
chicken? You can fix chicken a million different ways. You can invite
friends over for chicken and not have your living room be filled with
noxious odors if your friends stick around.
Or bacon? If it was bacon I could be
one of the manliest men around. “You guys want to come over later
to watch the game? Instead of chips and dip I'm serving bacon and
dip. I even made some cups...out of bacon.”
I would probably have a troupe of
man's best friend just waiting outside my door, because, well, one
man can only eat so much bacon before he starts to share. Just think
of all those wagging tails that could be waiting for me.
But no, my item is refried beans, so I
shall sit here all alone and contemplate how much methane I can
produce as compared with cows. And hey, I think the beans have lard
in them, which is kind of related to bacon. Also, according to that
wise old rhyme, they're good for your heart.
*Note: I actually went to my parents
house tonight and fried a bunch of fish and had a lot of other stuff,
too, so I'm not really sitting all alone with a can of beans...though
I may be some time in the future. I also never watch “the game,”
I'm just not that interested in any of them.
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