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[marcmagus]

Sign that I'm not a stereotypical bachelor: It occurred to me to make a vegetable to go with my dinner.

Sign that I am a stereotypical bachelor: . . . as I plated it.

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[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

...plated?

Definition?

Also, HI! *hugs and runs off, because she is several different kinds of hyper right now!*

~Sor

[marcmagus]

Put food onto a plate in preparation for service.

[fieonljfiefie.livejournal.com]

It may be that I'm more of a stereotypical bachelor than you are.

...Because it took me a while to conceive of the sort of dinner where that wouldn't be the cue to throw some frozen peas or broccoli into the microwave with the rest of the things on the plate. =D

[marcmagus]

*chuckle*

Nah. That implies that you routinely include vegetables with your dinner. I think I'm still hitting the stereotype more. ;)

Also, if it's going on the plate before going into the microwave, I'd consider that part of cooking, not plating. This would be more like noticing, as you took off the Saran Wrap, that maybe vegetables would be a good idea.

[fieonljfiefie.livejournal.com]

I think the whole idea of plating loses you some bachelor points too, though. It assumes containers of foodmaking that you do not eat off of directly, which in turn imply significant food preparation and that bane of the true bachelor, extra dishes.

But yes, you have me with the vegetables. Dinner isn't really dinner without something green in it.

Still... does it count as realization-during-plating when you discover that you have foolishly poured the water from the pasta without first adding the peas, and so throw some frozen peas onto the plate under the noodles in the hope that they will thaw by the time the (straight out of the jar in the fridge) tomato sauce gets there?

I think it does.

[marcmagus]

Oh, yes, the fact that I was plating my food definitely loses bachelor points. For all the reasons you mention, and also the one I think jhadania may have been referring to--that I didn't just eat it out of the pot anyway.

Ummmm, yes, yes it does. Since that's pretty much exactly the moment I realized I hadn't made vegetables. Except I decided it was too late.

[jhadania.livejournal.com]

You used a plate. There are levels of bachelor that you have yet to hit. *hugs*

[marcmagus]

*laugh* At least not with that meal. *hug*

How's things?