The grossest food ever.

Posted on 12/1/2005 by Kate

My office turned into the party office yesterday. For some reason I was in a really really good mood, and I think that just rubbed off on everyone. At lunch, Carrie was in my office hanging out while I was doing some marking. She went up to the cafeteria to get some food, and when she came back she had one of her favourite mixes from the salad bar.

Adam was trying to work on a thesis chapter, and when he heard us talking he came across the hall to see what was up. When Adam spied Carrie’s lunch, the first thing he did was screw his face up and say “what is that??!!” Carrie explained that it was cottage cheese, peaches and chickpeas.

So the scene:

[ Kate is making an origami boat to hold Smarties ]
Carrie: What are you doing?
Kate: I am making an origami boat. I used to do this all the time as a kid.
Carrie: I never used to make anything when I was a kid.

[ Adam shuffles in ]

Carrie: Look, Adam! Kate’s making a boat to hold Smarties!
Adam: Oh my god! What are you eating?
Carrie: It’s cottage cheese, peaches and chickpeas. It’s soooo goooood.
Adam: …. (involuntary gag)
Carrie: (Gesturing with fork) Did you know that chickpeas are one of the seven founder crops of agriculture?

[slight digression - that above phrase has become one of the most-used and abused inside jokes around here.
When James first came to Trent, he gave a lecture on the spread of Old World agriculture. In the question period after, a Mesoamerican professor commented "Wow, seven founding crops? That's a lot!". Fast forward to a couple weeks ago, in our grad GIS class (with Adam, Carrie, me and Rhianne). James got a salad from upstairs and he had put some chickpeas on it, and while he was lecturing to us in mid-sentence he stopped and gestured vaguely at us all with his fork and said "Did you know that chickpeas are one of the seven founder crops of agriculture?" and ever since then that is just what you say when you have or see chickpeas.]

Adam: Uhhhh..yeah!! But that is gross. That is the grossest food ever! (clutches stomach)
Carrie: No! The white stuff is kind of sour…
Kate: (laughing uncontrollably) Savoury!
Carrie: Uh, no….in this case it is sour.
Kate: Hahaha!

[ Kate P. is walking down the hall and is drawn like a magnet to the sound of laughter. ]

Kate: Kate! Hi!
Adam: Look what Carrie is eating! How can anyone eat that?
Kate P: What…oh…. (holds stomach)
Carrie: Hey you guys! It’s good!
Carrie: As I was saying, the white stuff is sour, and the peaches are sweet, and it kind of coats it. Chickpeas are just good.
Adam: [ Comes closer to look, face all screwed up ]
Carrie: Kate! Want some Smarties?
Kate P.: Oh, no thanks!
Adam: You should put Smarties in there!
Carrie: Hahaha! No.

[ Kate P. flees, clutching stomach ]

Carrie: Adam, try it! Really, it’s good.
Adam: Noooooooo!
Carrie: You don’t like cottage cheese, do you.
Adam: (hunches over, shakes head)
Kate: I have laughed so hard my eyes are watering!
Adam: I bought a new coat! (leaves)

[ Adam runs back in a moment later, clutching his new coat ]

Carrie and Kate: Put it on!
Adam: I told Rhianne what you were eating and she thinks it’s gross too!
Adam: That’s the trainwreck of food!
Kate: I can take a picture of it if you want!

[ Alistair walks down the hall, on a break from a session in the lab ]

Alistair: What are you guys all doing in here? Are you on drugs?
Kate: Hahaha! No! Hahaha!
Adam: (incredulous, flailing) You missed what Carrie was eating! Show him the picture! She ate cottage cheese, peaches and chickpeas! Together!
Alistair: (shrugs) It all goes to the same place!
Adam: (deflates)
Kate: Hahahahaha!


Cottage cheese, chickpeas and peaches.

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