The truth about guacamole.

[tigertoy]

There are probably a couple of people who read my journal who don't read cadhla's and missed the larger post this is taken from, so I thought I would perform a small public service and spread it around.  Because it made me laugh for a very long time and also sums up my true feelings about that nasty green goo Mexican restaurants contaminate your dinner with.

I dislike avocado. ... And that's why I mashed a big bowl of tomato horn worms, mixed it with some salsa, and put it on the table as a dip. And that's why I won't eat guacomole to this day, because no one noticed the difference.

Comments

[chirosinger.livejournal.com]

Apparently you've never tried Bonnie's guac. It's truly nummy!!!

CEA on guacamole

[daev.livejournal.com]

"It looks like mrouter in a cup."

[xap]

oh my....

you
are
EVIL!!!

That has to be the worst thing anyone has done to me in quite a while, you mean mean mean man - I almost passed out trying to keep the volume down on my laughter so they wouldn't kick me out of the office! :)

*grin* Yes, I _had_ to follow the link and read the rest of the gauc bit...was able to manage the 'surreal with food' section (some brilliant stuff, by the way). SO fun that I had to start back at the top - whoops :)

Thanks for brightening my day tho :) In the interests of safety, will have to finish the rest at home tonight!

Re: CEA on guacamole

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

That was my favorite quote about guacamole until I read this.

For those of you playing the home game, the PLATO system 20+ years ago was an amazing mishmosh of software, written by many different people over a long time, only a few of whom had any training in or understanding of traditional programming. Although the whole was an impressive achievement, many of the individual pieces were very bad, especially if you had to look at the code rather than just the screen displays. The main system-provided student management system at the time was one of the very worst monstrosities of bad design and bad coding in the mix. It was called "mrouter".

On one occasion when we were eating at Trito's -- a place that would have been the absolutely perfect student dive except for being a little too expensive; they've been closed for close to 20 years and I still miss their grinders -- I forgot to specify "no guacamole" with my nachos supreme, and Chris made the above remark when he saw the container of guacamole.

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

I take no responsibility for people reading LiveJournal at work.

Re: CEA on guacamole

[billroper]

Yeah, I remember "mrouter". I've now blanked on the name of the woman who wrote it, but I worked over her spaghetti code for the Chemistry department first. As I recall, "mrouter" was one of the reasons they worried about hiring me to work on PLATO, because of the last programmer/chemist they'd dealt with. *sigh*

Re: CEA on guacamole

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

a great and timeless quote.

though i love guacamole. :) and if tomato horn worms taste like it, heck, bring 'em on! a bit more protein can't possibly hurt.

Re: CEA on guacamole

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

my brain has monica fortner associated with it -- but did she write it, or did she just document it?

Re: CEA on guacamole

[billroper]

No, she didn't come out of Chemistry, so she must have just documented it. Ah, but Google is my friend. It was Ruth Chabay, who finished her Ph.D. in 1975.

Re: CEA on guacamole

[billroper]

And this has just got to be her, since she's working with Bruce Sherwood.

Re: CEA on guacamole

[tigertoy.livejournal.com]

Get over it. You don't have to drive past the building every few days.