NCEPR: Can we talk about this sucks?

[heightsyankee]

This is 2 huge, major tear inducing onions that I pre-chopped for the turkey sloppy joes I plan to mAke for dinner. Now, instead of being ahead o the game, I need to mop a floor that was just mopped yesterday and go to the store and buy 2 more onions when I should be going to the redi-clinic and getting antibiotics for this raging sinus infection. FML.

[ringstrue]

you just mopped yesterday? They are still good.

[charminglife]

If you dont have pets, and the container didnt break, I'd pick them up, give them a quick rinse and use them. You're cooking them anyway, you just mopped and you're sick! Give yourself a break.

[heightsyankee]

Ha ha. I have 2 cats, a dog, and 2 dirty boys. If it was dry food, mAybe uncooked pasta, it might have been salvageable but those were some wet wet onions.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

Put those babies in a collander and rinse. Good to go! You'll still have to mop to get the onion smell off the floor, but at least you still have the onions, right?

[heightsyankee]

Would you rinse, even with 3 pets?

[heightsyankee]

Because you're tempting me to try

[ChillyMcFreeze]

I would, but I don't have the highest standards in the world for cleanliness.

[pescalita]

I'd totally rinse.

[Deleted]

You have a raging sinus infection??

Please, lady. Sweep that shit up and buy a bucket of chicken. Done and done.

I don't cook when I'm plaguey and if H doesn't like it, he knows how to use a debit card.

[charminglife]

pet hair kind of freaks me out, so I'd probably dig around in my fridge for something to replace the onions in the sloppy joes - celery or green pepper? but if your only options are rinsing the onions or going to the store sick, I'd bite the bullet and rinse.

[Deleted]

Rinse. You're cooking them anyway.
If you were eating them raw I would throw them out.

[Deleted]

Or, you could just use the onions that didn't fall out of the container or you could buy prechopped onions at the store, or you could not put onions in the sloppy joe at all.

But I still vote for take out.

[meshaliuknits]

I'm with HAB, except I'd have something delivered to the house.

[beebeeeater]

I hate all of these ideas. You're sick. Order Chinese food.

[heightsyankee]

I was able to salvage some, just enough to go ahead with dinner.

I am in no way above just ordering take out (husband has a work dinner tonight) but we leave in 2 weeks for vacation and I am trying really hard to adhere to some austerity measures I put in place until we leave

Plus, I'm trying to kick 5lbs out the door

[Deleted]

See, the fact that I'm about to load up and pack shit for vacation makes me even more likely to order up.

If you're sick, you need rest and how much rest are you getting if you're chopping onions and making sloppy joe?

You wanna still be sick in two weeks?

[beebeeeater]

Okay in that case, everyone gets cereal for dinner. If anyone is lucky enough for me to be cooking when I'm sick and I drop shit on the floor like that, all bets are off. If you're hungry enough, you'll find your own damn dinner! Those kids look old enough to pour themselves a bowl of cereal.

[heightsyankee]

May 22, 2012 11:07:35 GMT -5 beebeeeater said:

Okay in that case, everyone gets cereal for dinner. If anyone is lucky enough for me to be cooking when I'm sick and I drop shit on the floor like that, all bets are off. If you're hungry enough, you'll find your own damn dinner! Those kids look old enough to pour themselves a bowl of cereal.

True, true. If I get the drugs, I should feel better by tomorrow. Dirty floor onions and turkey will hold one more day...

[heightsyankee]

Thought I would add this little happy ending to my whine for the day.

In our kitchen we have an area rug that is carpet tiles. A couple of them were super stinky bc the onions were really juicy, so I took them out to the front yard and was hosing them down. My neighbor came home during this and said hi, asked what was going on. I told him about the onions...

I think it's important to mention that my neighbor is a 50+ year old man who not so much an old hippie as a kind of one-step-away-from-a-tin-foil-helmet-anti-establishment guy. He graduated from Texas A&M with an architecture degree but decided he doesn't like people telling him what to design. Instead he does photography, primarily of weirdo local punk/thrash bands. Anyway, he's a fine neighbor but not the kind of guy to do favors.

Fast forward 3 hours and I was just getting home with the boys when I see my neighbor coming out of his house. He walks over to the porch and hands me one of those grocery store containers of chopped onions. So nice and unexpected.

However, we are eating pasta and sauce from a jar. Sloppy joes tomorrow night.

[kcb]

that's so sweet! nice neighbor!

[gpw]

what an awesome neighbor...

Also, what happened to you would have made me sit on the kitchen floor and cry...and not just because the onions were strong.

[UMaineTeach]

love great neighbors