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projectile vomit chick wrote:
> On Aug 11, 3:31 am, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>> So I bought the book called 20-Minute Menus by Marian Burros.
>> Luckily I got it used and didn't pay much for it because it is
>> totally worthless to me. The book seems to presume that the people
>> buying it don't know a thing about cooking. They tell you if the
>> recipe calls for an 8 oz onion but you only have a 10 oz. onion to
>> either discard the 2 oz. or add them to your dish. Say what? Who
>> weighs their onions? Really?

>
> This coming from the *person* that can't grasp the concept of
> produce. You can't get through your ****ing stupid dumb ****ing
> "brain" that you can make salad from produce. You don't have to weigh
> the produce. You just chop the shit up and put it in the God-damned
> bowl. Oh no, that's too hard for you. You really think people weigh
> their onions. You are a ****ing dumb ****ing shit and I hate you.


WTF? I know what produce is. I know how to make salads. Where are you
coming from? Do you really think I need a recipe to make a salad? I've
been making salads since I was 4!

And if you hate me... Oh well! I can't say that I find you any too
pleasant.
>
> But I'm over it, now. You're a troll.


Are you over it now? Are you really? Because you replied THREE times to
the same post. Gah!

>> I do not seem much at all in that book that I would like to eat.
>> It's big on fish dishes. I already know how to make things with
>> chicken nuggets. I know how to make lasagna without meat. In fact I
>> never put meat in mine. I know how to make hamburger patties. It's
>> just far easier to make them already made up. Same with the chicken
>> nuggets. Now that's really fast food. Buy it already made. Which is
>> what I would think they would tell you to do since they tell you to
>> buy the breadsticks, whole wheat bread, pesto, etc. already made up.
>> You are also supposed to buy your veggies cut or sliced already.
>>
>> This book might be good for someone who truly doesn't know how to
>> cook or stock a pantry. It also tells you how to do that and what
>> the game plan is for the meal.
>>
>> So whoever recommended this book to me (I can't remember), thanks
>> but no thanks!

>
> You're one of the more humorous trolls that I've seen on Usenet. On a
> par with Jerry Sauk. LOL


Whoever that is...