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SWITCHUP AT KROGER'S.......

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Yesterday, deplete of provisions....and, after several days of avoiding 'sweets'.....I journeyed to Kroger, traveling the mile or so with a thousand other vehicles, going 'somewhere or the other'......After entering the Grocery Store and gathering some 'staples', I began to survey both the other shoppers and the contents of their wheeled baskets.......noting the correlations between the body types of the shoppers and the types of food they had gathered.    Many of their 'food items' were unfamiliar to me; so, I began to chat with the other Kroger clients about their selections.......Shopper #1 was a friendly, obese woman, trolling the aisles with her obese husband and two obese children, under ten.   I asked her 'what her favorite foods were'.   She, rather excitedly, replied: "Dolly Parton's Chocolate Pie!.....There's nothing better......Nothing!" as she put three of them into her cart, along with several gallons of sugary soft...
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REASON ENOUGH TO 'STAY HOME.....AND PREPARE MY OWN FOOD! RATHER THAN DRIVE FOR 'TAKEOUT'...."TODO PARA LEVAR"

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The annoying " Transportation Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax ", alone, would keep me 'home'.
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VIEWING EPISODE 9 OF SEASON 1 OF "THE ULTIMATE BAKING CHAMPIONSHIP"

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Memories of my late friend, Hill Irving sprung from my Memory Banks....as did those of Sylvia Weinstock.......who mastered the art of combining sugars, fats and chocolates, ensuring the inevitably forthcoming increase in body weight and waist sizes for so many Americans.....In Paris, the dessert, pictured above, would be an inch and a half in diameter......In America, it is the size of a tangerine, if not that of an orange......Entry into its sweet interior is obtained by pouring a hot, sweet 'goo' onto a hardened chocolate sphere, filled with other sweet delights..... How about this 'Tree Art dessert?  An Epic 'FAIL', of course....but, still, tasty enough to eat, anyway....if not aesthetic-enough to win a prize or much praise for Culinary  Inventiveness
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THE "TOWER OF BABEL CHALLENGE".......

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 How does one tackle the eating of this Pileup?   An oyster fork?   A salad fork and sharp knife?  Fingers and a large lap napkin?  What would Amy Vanderbilt have recommended?   Any suggestions from Wally and Beaver?   
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MULTIPLICATION VIA SIMPLIFICATION? OR COMPLICATION VIA ADDITION?

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My jillionth variation on ' tuna fish sandwich '..... "MAKE IT YOUR WAY"     to a can of undrained Kirkland Solid Albacore Tuna, add chopped sweet pickle relish, toasted celery seeds, yellow mustard, mayonnaise, Stonewall Kitchen's roasted garlic & onion Jam, coarse-ground black pepper, chopped broccoli, sweet kale, radicchio, Brussels sprouts, red tomatoes, pepitas and cranberries and a dribble of chilie-infused honey, some dried parsley, chives, onion, cilantro and dill weed....  
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Fruit and Nuts....NO added sugars........There are many wholesome, if more $$$, snacks that one can even substitute for a meal.......

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                      and are less costly than the junk food that Americans, increasingly, procure at drive-through windows of Fast Food Joints, across our Country......    
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What.....Pho?

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                                      My response to Gordon Ramsay's  30 minutes to  'Use Your Noodle' challenge on Next Level Chef ....
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