Sam's Backup Page ([personal profile] cblj_backup) wrote2012-06-14 12:40 pm

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Awkward Coworker: I have a question for you.
Sam: Shoot.
Awkward Coworker: What...is...

Now, most of the actual business-of-work that he and I talk about centers around either the database we use or Things I Know About The Building That He Doesn't. So I was in no way expecting:

Awkward Coworker: ...the deal with quinoa?

Bless his heart. That's the first time I've laughed in days.

(For the record, he discovered you can't use quinoa in place of couscous, and I informed him that quinoa is not actually edible, it's a trick.)

[identity profile] maeritrae.livejournal.com 2012-06-15 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry, Sam, but broccoli is the best of all possible foods, as long as you cook it properly. Unless you do something crazy like put cheese on it. The refectory staff think I am very strange because of the way my face lights up if they have broccoli and cauliflower available. Om nom nom nom nom!

[identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com 2012-06-15 12:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I deny that there is any way to cook broccoli that does not make it taste like spongy grass. Cheese cannot rescue it. It's broccoli.

[identity profile] maeritrae.livejournal.com 2012-06-15 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Cheese is about the only thing that can destroy it! It's really nice with sliced almonds scattered over it...

The hotel I was at in Frankfurt a few weeks ago did manage to ruin it, though. It tasted like they had cooked it in brine or something - it was crazy salty! I still ate it, because hello, broccoli, but I didn't enjoy it.

[identity profile] maeritrae.livejournal.com 2012-06-15 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Om nom nom. (http://ic.pics.livejournal.com/maeritrae/2207904/18073/original.jpg) Though admittedly it looks less delicious there than it did in real life. I blame the flash.