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January 8, 2009

Mystery Can – Day Five (James) by James @ 10:57 pm

Tonight’s dinner was a deli sub, roast beef and cheese.

For fear of not being able to spit out more clever descriptions as was my intention yesterday, I decided to make faces in each of the pictures instead.

Monkey monkey monkey. How this thing work…

Not Spaghettios… Not Beefaroni… What is it?

Easy, that’s what it is.

This Mystery Can game is turning out to be more like Nicky doing my grocery shopping for me.

For the sake of Mystery Can, I took a couple of bites right out of the can. Thrilling! And tomato pasty.

There they are. Lovely and lovely. There was something different about this can of macaroni in tomato sauce, it wasn’t quite Chef Boyardi… Hippy earthy variety, maybe? Maybe store brand. Or maybe my memory of the Chef B products have been distorted over time. It has been a good, long while since I have had some.

There was a single chunk of meat product in it. Was that accidental? The sauce was surprisingly mild. I was expecting harsh and acidy.

So, I taked them

and I eated them.

A quick note on the previous two pictures, it was my idea to just run back into the kitchen and take a quick picture of the empty dishes, but the Chad recommended trying to recreate the previous picture. This was attempt number four.

Aside from the change of perspective on the stove and tea kettle, it’s pretty spot-on.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank Chad for taking the pictures throughout this week long project.

On another side note, I need a hair cut. I’m starting to look like the guy from the Red Meat comics.

Thanks to Jay at theplug.net for coming up with such a great idea. Mystery Can!

I promise I will force a Mystery Can rematch in the future… One that has more interesting cans to report on.

We will also be getting Nicky’s cans (heh heh) on here as well.

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Mystery Can – Day Four (James) by James @ 12:09 am

Well, here we are, day four!

It is almost day five. I was eating at 11:00PM.

Tonight, the main course was Mac & Cheese (with peas, of course).

I picked a can that looked very much like a can of tuna, chicken, ham, or some other chunked meat.

It was small enough, that I thought it would be a safe bet, in case it wasn’t chicken or whatever, I could still muscle it down.

And the winner is…

Can of chicken.

C’mon, nickawhite, you are much too easy on a person…

This is another meal that I have on a very regular basis. The boiling of the chicken in the mac and peas water cuts most of the funky canned chicken taste, so it comes out pretty OK.

Now comes the fancy cheese goo in metal envelope…

It’s funny. Prior to opening the can each night, I pray for something easy.

Then, as I’m typing up this post, I’m wishing for more gory details to give out…

Yep, it was just good.

Oh well. Maybe I will find more clever descriptions to sling about in the next three days.

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January 6, 2009

Mystery Can – Day Three (James) by James @ 11:04 pm

This is another late dinner, which I am used to. Once I get home from work around 6, I am rarely hungry until much later.

Tonight’s feast involves another comfort-food favorite of mine, pierogies. They can be made a variety of ways, but recently, I have been baking mine. Still, these are packaged, processed foods. There’s a lot of that in my life. The only thing more abundant in my diet is a lack of food.

The can I chose today has small solids (that squeak against the inside of the can) in a much more watery liquid than previous days. I am really hoping for green beans. It was this hope for green beans that led me to choose this particular can today.

* NOTE TO CAMERA-MAN: Quit trying to be fancy. This is Mystery Can!

In case you are wondering, within the last hour, I may have finally rid myself of the last of yesterday’s mystery can contents. What a mess. Honestly, earlier this evening, in reviewing yesterday’s post, I almost lost my appetite. The taste of the stuff wasn’t so bad… The thing about it was the way I felt after eating it. The whole rest of the night and this morning, I felt like I had eaten seventeen pounds of angry, claustrophobic, little animals.

I had no idea that 12 oz. of “food stuffs” could make such a profound impression on an otherwise stable person’s system.

Anyway…

It’s GREEEEEEEEN BEEEEEEAANS!

Not just any green beans will do. For me, it has to be the skinny little french cut variety with much more green than bean. The Whiteness. She knows stuff about me. This is like a present.

There are some little red chunks in there, too. I was hoping it was red peppers, as that would have been something different. I’m pretty sure these were tomato chunks, though. I ate one by itself, right out of the can, but it tasted like green bean water. Oh, I meant:

GREEEEEEEEN BEEEEEEAANS! water.

This was a weak (but much appreciated) showing for even a 2/10 misery rating round of Mystery Can.

A better meal I could not have planned. You have just got to harvest the crusted up, oil soaked cheese scrapings from the baking sheet. You just have to. It is the rules of baking with cheese.

It’s GREEEEEEEEN BEEEEEEAANS!

All gone. Down the hatch. Lovely day, lovely day.

Not as many pictures in the documentation of the Mystery Can Day Three. Honestly, it would have just been pictures of me eating a meal that I have at least two or three times a month. Pierogies and…

GREEEEEEEEN BEEEEEEAANS!

…with little red chunks.

I fear the rest of the week. It can’t possibly be this delicious again.

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