operation town: success!

[schmerica]

Oh my god, I just bought a *lot* of food. And spent a crapload of money, more to the point.

So, to quote lynn -- "Hooray, I won't starve!" I can think of three reasons behind my craziness, though:

A. The pharmacy lady told me it'd be 45 minutes before I could pick up my pills. Since I don't have a watch, this meant I dragged my feet even more slowly than usual all around the store, looking at everything two or three times.

B. I shouldn't always be let out of the house alone. My brain really isn't very good at remembering to speak up with the "Erica, do you really need the prettily packaged scone mix? Or ten dollars worth of soup?" It's really sucky, actually.

C. You know how people say you shouldn't go shopping when you're hungry? This is TRUE. It's especially true when it's four in the afternoon and you haven't eaten in eighteen hours.

Random questions I was thinking of on the bus ride home:

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Comments

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

I think you're very cute.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*beams* I think YOU'RE very cute. *snugs*

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that holupkies are basically galumpkis (or "galupkies"). I make a mean batch of those.

I don't know what a "shortcut" pierogie is -- my eastern european relatives would die from embarassment if someone thought they took a shortcut with their cooking! *g*

What's a gratnuckel when it's at home?

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

What's a gratnuckel when it's at home?

OMG, please tell me you're quoting A Hard Day's Night with "...when it's at home?" because I will LOVE you FOREVER.

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Not specifically, because I say that all the time, but I can fake it if it means eternal love from you!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

*loves on you like whoa*

Holupkies -- cabbage stuffed with ground beef and rice and stuff, sometimes with tomato sauce on top. Short-cut pierogies -- dough and mashed potatoes and fried onions. Gratnuckels -- dough and cabbage and fried onions.

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

OK, yup, the holupkies are exactly what I thought. (I've got a kickass recipe if you ever want it. And I use *lots* of tomato sauce, and I cook it with bacon draped over the top, which probably isn't very healthy but adds *tons* of flavor.)

Mmmm, perogies. Are they folded like normal ones?

And those gratnuckels sound great! Why have I never had them before?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Well, the difference between real pierogies and short cut pierogies is that instead of the actual pierogies, shortcut pieorgies are just little pieces of dough and the potatoes adn the onions all mixed together in a big bowl.

And, I don't know! I avoid them myself whenever possible, because I hate every cabbage-y food I have ever tasted in my life. But that's me.

[abelladonna.livejournal.com]

As for the food store question... no, I don't say that, but I do say, "I'm going to grocery today, want anything?". I have discovered (after it was pointed out to me), that I have a tendency to drop the "the" sometimes. When I had to get X-rays, I didn't go to the hospital, I went "to hospital".

And, you know, I grew up eating cabbage all the frickin' time (My family is Russian/Polish), and now I want holupkies. ARG!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

My paternal family is Slovak, so yeah, special occasions are all about the cabbage/potato/onion trio. Except that I, personally, hate cabbage with a huge and burning passion, so I pick at everything like a five year old.