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Monday, September 08, 2003
Chicken of the Sea
Sometimes I'm hesitant to actually describe what I do at home because of the stigma of ghettoness I might incur. Even so, I will continue. Tonight, after working on med school stuff (I finished one app and am mostly done with another 2) and I got hungry for a snack. Peeking into my fridge, I found nothing really edible except for an opened, half-can of chicken broth. Sampling it for freshman, it actually turned out to be pretty delicious. No, I'm not completely crazy to just drink chicken broth straight up.. even the can says, "Use in your favorite recipes, or serve as a hot beverage." Admittedly, I didn't heat it up, but we all know that you can't microwave a metal can (that's a big "NO NO"). Since I wasn't very hungry, I ignored the rest of the "real" food I had in the pantry and the freezer and decided to have a can of tuna.
(Opening the can of tuna was quite an endeavor in light of our $0.99 can opener. We used to have a better one, but somehow, it got so jammed up that it didn't turn AT ALL. Before getting a new one, to open cans, I used to have to use the can opener like scissors, moving it alongside the can and "snipping" away at the lid. It was high time to get While at Walgreens, I opted to get the cheapest one they had, which turned out to be an unwise choice. This is one of those can openers that doesn't have a circular blade. Instead, it digs in with this triangular piece of metal, and all the turning action does is to drag it across the lid. It's mighty slow and cumbersome.. oh well..)
Holding the chicken broth and seeing the brand name of the tuna (Chicken of the Sea) gave me a clever idea, though. Why not just drain out the water from the tuna and replace it with chicken broth to give it a more savory flavor? And so I did (add chicken broth to drained tuna) and it was (more flavorful).. sort of. The saltiness of the tuna really overpowered any chickenness offered by the broth. I was fairly disappointed. Makes me in the mood for having some chicken Top Ramen. Now that's flavorful! Too bad we don't have any.
12:00 AM Albert
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