I ate dessert first last night.
I wasn’t certain if I was hungry so I had a snack of yogurt and homemade granola, which I sometimes have for my dessert.
After I ate it I was sure that I was hungry so I made myself a lovely dinner of chicken and mashed potatoes and broccoli and cranberry sauce.
Zen-Den was traveling for business so it was just me dining at the kitchen counter.
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It wasn’t until I started cleaning up the kitchen that I realized that I’d eaten my meal in reverse order.
I started laughing at myself.
I mean, no one thinks that they’ll be the real life embodiment of a pop culture cliché gleaned allegedly from a woman born in 1892, yet I managed to do it.
By accident, of course.
THE SPECTACLED BEAN 
I had a male friend who did it all the time at restaurants. Drove the waitresses crazy. Not sure why but it did.
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Kate, I worked as a waitress while I was in college and I can’t imagine why any waitress would care. All I cared about was getting the correct food to the person who ordered it. What they ate was of no concern to me!
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He said it disrupted the timing factor. I never was a waitress so I didn’t get it.
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Well, it wouldn’t have disrupted my timing at all. I dunno. Maybe different restaurants have different rules? Where I worked: just give ’em what they want when they want it!
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That would work for me!
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Don’t you just love eating alone sometimes? You can then eat what you want when you want. And no one can say anything. Every once in awhile popcorn and M&Ms are my dinner. At least we’re happy! And isn’t that what life’s all about?
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Beth, yes I do enjoy it! In fact, my dinner last night was at about 4:30 p.m. because that’s when I was hungry.
[Mom used to eat popcorn for dinner sometimes. Drove Aunt Char crazy… as you can imagine.]
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Your Mom also used to eat veggies for breakfast, didn;t she?
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Yes she did. Loved her hot veggies with her cold cereal. Go figure. 😉
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Dessert or just a very unique appetizer? Don’t the French eat salad after the meal? There are no rules!
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Zazzy, hadn’t thought of it like that… no rules, you say? Hmmm. No wonder it all made sense to me.
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This makes me think of another quote from Auntie Mame, “”Life’s a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death,”
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la p, that’s a good one, too. At least that one has an actual literary source, unlike the rather dodgy, not-so-well documented one that I chose.
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Sometimes you just gotta shake things up a bit. 🙂
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Carrie, yes you do. Especially when the shaking is so darned easy to do.
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I’m always on my own now, being a widow and my eclectic dinners are too embarrassing to recount here. They usually involve cheese, salad and maybe some chips and salsa. 🙂
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Margaret, but do you eat dessert first?!! That is the real question. Are you, too, a cliché like moi?
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Not usually. Do almonds count? 🙂
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Margaret, well… maybe not. Although I eat lots of them, too.
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It was a pretty healthy dessert, to be fair! Had you been full after that, it would have just as well been a decent meal, one that many people have as a breakfast.
I ate alone last night, too, but I wasn’t as creative as you were. Leftover Chinese carryout in front of the news was my dinner. Boring and unsatisfying. I’d have rather eaten with you.
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nance, I agree that it was healthy, especially for a dessert. I was hoping that it’d fill me up so that I could be finished with the whole dinner thing, but no! I don’t often make a big dinner for myself when I’m alone, but I saw all the ingredients in the frig and thought: why not?
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Ha! Ha! That is what we have been calling our science posts….snippets.
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Faraday’s Candle, it’s a good word, applicable to all sorts of situations. 🙂
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Real food. You ate real food – no matter the order. Pretty impressive to make actual dinner for just yourself. (If you had napkins rather than grabbed paper towel as needed, I’m totally floored.)
Funny story – Eating in installments not such a crazy idea at all.
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philmouse, I don’t always make myself [or husband & me] a real dinner, but on that particular day I was hungry– and the ingredients were on hand.
And well– yes, I used a cloth napkin because that’s what we have here in this house because that’s how I was reared so that is what I buy. It’s a WASP thing, ‘ya know?
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