81. Speed Writing

so i'm really sick of studying so i've decided to take a break & see how much randomness i can come up with before it's 4:15. (in under 5min)

um so i just went down to the kitchen like ten minutes ago & was really craving this pork stuff that's literally just shredded pork meat with some fat & salt; cooked, packed & sold sort of like a spread that you put on bread. DELICIOUS (7.5/10), fattening but great. it's called rillette. anyway, i knew we had some in the frigo cause i saw it this morning so i went down looking for it but it wasn't there so i thought either
a) my host mom decided to hide it from ppl like me & host dad who have uncontrollable eating habits or
b) she ate it since she's on this protein diet anyway & she's allowed but i didn't see her eat it, which is pretty reliable cause we ate lunch together & french ppl don't really eat other than during meal times

so i decided to munch on a carrot i found. when i was peeling it at the garbage can, i took a good look & you'll never guess what i saw...the rillette bucket!!! so i got all hopeful & decided to reach in & see if it weighed more than the plastic bucket & it did. ah, but it was just too tempting & unbelievable so i left it aside just for the sake of tension-building. when i finished my carrot, i opened it & i saw a HUGE chunk of goodness inside.

so here's the thing. expiration dates are MASSIVE over here. or maybe it's just my host family but they take it really seriously so basically, if it's past the date, you don't eat it. it's as logical as that. apparently, food spoils in a span of 24h. so i checked the date & it was for the 5th, which isn't today, nor tomorrow but in two days so i can't imagine why i got eliminated from the fridge, especially since we ate leftovers at lunch from last week. so i assumed that maybe, the dog licked it or something. according to my very high probability assumption (um, right...), i decided that dog saliva wouldn't kill me so i slathered the garbage-touched meat onto the last slice of whole wheat bread (a really thick layer too since i had no choice but to finish it, you know) & ate. so good. but mind you, the garbage can has smelled funky since last night, which goes to show how much i love food. or perhaps just how disgusting i can be.

hungry?

[bt]

p.s. i think i was inspired by the news report on garbage-pickers who sort through the "trash" at night behind grocery store buildings since they're not allowed to sell things that are past expiration dates & often throw perfectly edible items out because new stock comes in. which is why i've always been the person to take the nastiest-looking stuff at the caf just so that not no one takes it cause otherwise, ugly foods get thrown out. superficial, eh?

p.p.s. it's been 15min...fail