The Things I Learn About Food....

1. I am capable of eating two pineapples throughout the course of two days.
My eating habits have become habitually boring. Every morning I wake up and eat either a bowl of Smart Start or a Yoplait Light. I chase this all down with a Propel on the way out the door. Usually I skip lunch and then manage something simple for dinner as I snack on the computer.
At the beginning of the week, I bought two pineapples figuring that I could eat a little more spontaneously with my favorite fruit. There was a great deal at Krogers were you could get two for three dollars. That night, I cut up one of the pineapples and stored in a zipbloc bag in my fridge. The next afternoon, I ate the entire bag with a fork while watching Dreamland in bed. As I was hanging out with Denver that night, he asked me if I had any dishes to do so I brought in my assortment of plastic dinnerware and scrubbed it real fast. It only made sense to cut up the second pineapple while I was working in the kitchen.
For breakfast I ate a pineapple.

2. I never get sick of peanut butter and jelly.
I have eaten a PB&J every night this week. I just had one about five minutes ago and could definitely polish off another one within the hour. Peanut Butter being my favorite food, and the ingredients being so easy to access, it is a simple delicacy. Perhaps throughout the course of the summer I will get more free, greasy burgers from the restaurant and eat them instead. But for now, I'm pretty happy with my elementary palette.

3. Fried Catfish only costs two dollars a person when splitting it with a coworker (and it's super delicious).
For lunch, Misty asked if I'd like to split a catfish appetizer with her. She said it was two filets of catfish chopped into bitesize peices with a side of fries. Being a little hungry, I agreed. Safe to say, it was the best meal I've had all week, even next to my midnight sandwich.

4. Diet Pepsi is nowhere near as good as Diet Coke.
I started off only drinking water at work. Not only was it the healthy choice but it kept me hydrated and satisfied. By the end of the week I had switched to Diet Pepsi. The main difference, that changed my strong opinion on choice of beverage, was caffeine.
This magical ingredient keeps me on my toes. However, I would rather have had a Diet Coke any day.
An odd thing about me is that I would much prefer a Diet Coke to a Diet Pepsi when I would much prefer a Pepsi to a Coke. There is something in having a sugary, less carbonated drink, and a more carbonated artificially sweetened drink.
If only I could have a root beer float every day. My problems would be solved.

5. Root Beer floats make the entire room smell like creamsicles.
Three boys walked into Herby K's today. They all looked like brothers and their father appeared to be on a business dinner with a coworker. The boys sat at the bar at the exact same time and put their heads on their fists in the exact same way and they each ordered a root beer float.
It's the little things in life that make you smile.

6. You will lose your food if either a) you don't watch your feet, or b) you follow it with more than six beers.
As the night was coming to an end, I was refilling a few sweet teas before the customers departed. I've learned that one should be very careful when walking and refilling at the same time. In one step I had moved from being firmly placed on the brick flooring, to on my ass in wet and soil filled garden. It had escaped my attention that there was not only a large tree growing into the building, but that there was a obstructive barrier intruding onto my pathway.
I looked across the room to see Eric, the security officer, laughing at me.
A few nights earlier, there was a large group of men eating and having beers. One of them, who had ordered Herby K's famous shrimp buster, insisted on having round after round of Amber Bock beer in the large fishbowl mugs. As I was walking to my car I realized that those shrimp weren't the only things that were busted, and they were making a comeback.