You know how there are parts of meals that someone likes but another doesn’t?
For example, I like to eat only the stuffing in turkey, but not the turkey itself, whereas my mom hates the stuffing but likes the turkey.
Or take dark or white meat on a chicken for example.
BF and I just had this conversation the other day on what to make for our meals for the whole week.
Me: Let’s try that new recipe out. We’ll have to buy a whole chicken, though.*
*Note: This is because the best tasting chicken only sells as a whole, not in parts. We would also eat one chicken for the week between the two of us.
BF: Okay…. WAIT! Who’s going to eat the white meat? I don’t like the breast and neither do you.
Me: Shoot. Forgot about that. How about we flip a coin?
BF: *grimaces* No. I don’t like that idea.
Me: Wouldn’t it be great if you loved the white meat? And I could take all the dark meat for myself?
BF: Wouldn’t it be great if YOU loved white meat?
Me: I think it’s better on your end 😛
BF: It would be so great for our relationship if we could share a whole chicken for the week and we’d each get what we want.
Me: Maybe we can procreate kids who will love white meat and then we can take the dark meat together.
BF: I would love that. Or we can get friends who love white meat and only invite them over for dinner to finish off what we don’t like to eat.
Me: Can you imagine? That could be our friend filter, like “Hey you can only be our friends if you’ll eat white meat.“
BF: We’d have no friends at all!
Me: Let’s put a hunk of butter on that breast, then. Or a lot of sauce. I don’t see a way out unless you take one for the team.
So there you have it.
The secret to a harmonious relationship of meat-eaters is that one person loves the white meat and the other loves dark.
Barring that, we’ll have to procreate and brainwash our children into loving the parts we don’t like.
I feel like I could apply this philosophy to everything, given some time. 😛
Disclaimer: Yes, this is a tongue-in-cheek post, a.k.a… a joke.
ANOTHER KIND OF SHARING
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Here’s a teaser:
All of that didn’t cost much more than 7 dollars, but with the smile on her face you would have thought I handed her a winning lotto ticket.
I gave her a hug, and let her know that God loves her, and God’s people will watch out for her, and a look of re-assurance came across her face.
I could have done a lot of things with that 7 Dollars, but none of it would have made a bigger difference in anyone’s life than the way it was spent tonight.
Please, look out for yourself, your family, and the ones you love, but don’t forget that there is a whole world out there that just needs a little love, attention, and affection.
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I'm new to your blog and am so glad to have discovered it! This reminds me a conversation my husband and I would have. Fortunately for us, we both like white and dark meat 😉
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Thank you very much 🙂 I think you two are very lucky to be able to share a chicken equally.
I would need to deep fry the white meat to eat it.
Can I move in? Haha. I love white meat chicken. I also love canned tuna. I guess I prefer my meat to be on the dry/lean side.
Yes you can move in and eat all the breast meat 😛
I really don\’t care for dry/lean meat, but that\’s a great asset to you!
It certainly does make it easier when you can share! One of my good friends and I love to go to the Melting Pot together. Our tastes are similar enough that we can agree on what cheese to split, but when the dessert tray comes we pretty much can split it half and half. I love bananas, marshmallows, she hates them, etc. Doesn't always work if you want to split a certain meal, but it works for some!
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I am happy to eat certain parts of meals, or to polish off a dessert when everyone else is full… but white meat? oh no.
freeze up the white bits and turn it into stirfry or pot pie – something with a strong enough sauce to conceal the fact that it's white!
I\’d eat it breaded and deep fried 😛
This made me laugh 'cause the Boyfriend and I are totally compatible in this way. He likes white meat and I like the dark (though I have conditioned him to be alright with dark meat when I just want to cook a pan of bone-in thighs…). But it hold true for a lot of other, stranger food things, like asparagus. I hate the tips of the asparagus and prefer the woody ends (weird, I know). So we just cut the asparagus in half and swap. 😀
Oh that is WEIRD 🙂 I like the tips of asparagus not the woody parts. BF hates it altogether. The good news is that he eats what I don\’t like even white meat if he has to, but the bad news is I don\’t really give up anything 😛
That's why they say that opposites attract…only not so true in the meat color preference I suppose. There's always chicken soup!
We don't fight over the food, but we do fight over the covers. We both prefer to steal them.
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AH! We have a solution to this. BF and I have our own separate covers. DONE. Duvet 1, Duvet 2. It works out beautifully because he likes to wrap it around himself like a sausage roll and I like to do the same.
I'll take the white!
BF and I both like white, so we just buy only chicken breasts. =)
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Come over for dinner, girl. 🙂
It sounds like you're happy anyway.
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Ecstatic. We\’re a perfect match flaws and all.
Silly post. 🙂
I like white meat in Asian stir fry dishes. It's easier to prep and the sauces gave plenty of flavor to the white meat. Dark meat take so much longer to prep for stir fries.
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Very silly 🙂
I know but dark meat is so much tastier and oilier and not as dry. White meat I find, tends to be so dry. It soaks up everything because it\’s like a SPONGE!
We always have conversations like this, where we marvel at how convenient it is that I like X while DH likesY. Then he starts that old nursery rhyme "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean…" and I get annoyed, because I'm always the one who likes the healthier option, unlike the song suggests. 😉
Oh. I\’m the opposite then, I LOVE eating the fats, but I really should stick to lean, seeing as my face breaks out from so much oil and fat.
Hey There FB,
What a fun post, and thanks for the shout out. My wife and I have the opposite problem, we both like the white meat. LOL! But I'm not a picky person so I'm willing to give up the white meat and eat the dark meat if it is scarce. I like vegetables though and she generally hates anything green so that works out pretty well for us 🙂
Thanks,
Timothy
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Any time Timothy.
You should come over for dinner and eat the white meat for us. 😛
It works out well in our relationship – my preference is for the white meat, and his is for the dark meat (and the fat). He gets all my trimmings 😉
Oh man. If only we had a relationship like that!!! 🙂