7 Quick Takes: I CREATED A TOMATO! Also, I hate chicken and cemeteries are creepy (WHO KNEW?)

1. Firstly, a housekeeping matter. Here are results of the Are You A Card Person survey from a week or two ago.

About 46% claim to NOT be Card People, 20% are, and 35% of you fall somewhere in the middle. So, rather evenly split actually, which surprised me. (And, if you took the survey, thank you for clicking three whole extra times. CLICKING IS HARD, I KNOW.)

2. I should probably save this for a Legit Garden Update, but this is kind of a big deal and I felt those of you who are emotionally invested in The Garden might be rather interested to know a tomato has appeared, which proves I can do anything with the help of the internet.

You hear that? I CREATED A TOMATO!

3. We are back from New Orleans and I have been mentally composing a big recap post, but let's be honest, who knows when that will actually happen, as I never got around to actually recapping my trip in January 2011. If you would like to sneak peek and browse the photos, they're over at Flickr.

We toured a cemetery and I still have the creepies about it, several days later.

4. I have recently decided I am going to stop buying chicken. I stopped eating chicken in restaurants ages ago, because it just felt like FILLER to me. I didn't enjoy eating it and it tastes pretty BLAH (hence the phrase, "tastes like chicken," I suppose). I even started calling it "Token Chicken." This phrase refers to mostly to Thai dishes with vegetables, noodles, sauce, and some kind of bits of chicken thrown in to satisfy meat-eaters that need meat to call something DINNER. I also find Token Chicken in pasta dishes, burritos, sandwiches (just gimme the vegetables), pizzas, etc. About the only chicken I get excited to eat these days is hot wings and that's like, a once-a-quarter thing for me.

I just...kind of find chicken to be really disgusting. I don't like touching it raw, I hate cooking with it (slimy, veiny, disgusting), I don't enjoy eating it all that much and.....meh. I talked about it so much in such a negative light that Chris kind of agrees with me at this point. I'd much rather have beef (good beef, that is) or just straight-up vegetables. So, yeah. Kind of out on chicken these days.

5. The Blathering is in six months! Oh, I can't wait to see everyone. 

6. I finally bought my Jack Rogers sandals in silver and THEY ARE FANTASTIC. I had to order a half size up, because the 9 was very, very narrow. My pinky toe was actually hanging off, which was not super attractive. The 9.5 though was perfect and I wore then all over New Orleans and I just love these shoes. I am so mad I waited so many years to try them.

7. The baby woke up. There will be no 7th take today.

Comments

[Jennie]

Of all the meats I will miss, chicken is definitely not one of them. Couldn't agree with you more.

[HereWeGoAJen]

I cooked chicken for dinner the other night and it disgusted me so much during the cooking of that I ate a frozen dinner myself and just let everyone else eat the chicken.

You made a tomato!

[Natalie]

I totally get the chicken thing!

[Life of a Doctor's Wife]

1.) I gave up chicken for a loooooong time because I felt EXACTLY the way you do. Also, it made me kind of nauseated to eat it; there was just something about the texture and the flavor that didn't sit well. But after a few years of that (and enduring the puzzled "you don't eat CHICKEN?" looks from a million people) I can finally eat it again without gagging. I don't LOVE it, but it's easy. Although I would still prefer beef or veggies any day of the week.

2.) TOMATO!!!! So very exciting!!! I too have a tomato - actually, THREE tomatoes! One is already a little bigger than a grape tomato and the other two are marble size. I didn't create them from a seedling though - my tomato plants came from Home Depot (although the one that's producing is HUGE now). But nonetheless...It is SO EXCITING! I am refraining from sending you pictures.

[Jesabes]

I feel the exact same way about chicken. I refuse to cook it at all - Thomas does sometimes, but if he plans a chicken meal there's no way I'm filling in and cooking it. (He does all the meal planning and most of the cooking, but sometimes I cook what he plans.)

Also, SIX MONTHS, YAY!

[Mel]

Chicken is pretty gross. I started buying exclusively organic 2 years ago and since it is generally harder to find at conventional grocery, I cook it WAY less than I once did. And even then, I really only want it on the grill with some sort of fabulous marinade or something. I had KFC once a few months ago and it was SO VILE and all I could think about was the articles that speak of KFC shocking chickens to death and then I realized that the chicken totally tasted like it had been electrocuted and I sort of threw up in my mouth.

Beef is so much better. And I've been using ground turkey in a lot of recipes these days as well.

(I have a lot to say on the topic of chicken, apparently)