An actual conversation I had with two clerks at a local game store today:
Me: "Hi, do you guys have external hard drives for Xbox 360?"
Guy 1: "Oh, it's over here [tells me about their selection]."
Guy 2: "Who are you getting this for? Your son?"
Me: "No, oh my god, how old do you think I am?!"
Guy 1: "24."
Me: [puzzled look]
Guy 2: "Where are you from exactly?"
Me: "California."
Guy 1: "Oh, over here people have kids young, that's why."
Guy 2: "They have a school up in Davis that's just for pregnant teens! It's like, everyone's pregnant there."
Me: "That's crazy."
Guy 1: "Yeah, people usually have kids by your age. How old are you anyway?"
Me: "28."
Guy 1: "Oh yeah, see if you were LDS and you didn't have kids, people would think you were weird."
Guy 2: "Yeah [nodding]. Really weird."
Me: "Well, then do you guys have kids?"
Guy 1 & 2: "Noooo, no, nooooo... We're not LDS."
Me: "So then are you guys like an abomination?"
Guy 1: "That's right! We're like an abomination."
Guy 2: "Yeeeah, totally."
Then they smiled and nodded at each other with proud looks on their faces.
Later I went home and looked up Utah high schools for pregnant teens and found this placed called "New Beginnings Maternity Home."
Apparently, they're all booked up.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Utah Fun Fact
In Salt Lake City, 40% of residents are Mormon, compared to 68% of the population statewide. And only 12% of Mormons worldwide actually live in Utah.
Source: Deseret News and AllAboutMormons.com
Source: Deseret News and AllAboutMormons.com
Hot dog buns and "maple" syrup
I've been worried about hot dog buns recently.
For some reason, we thought it would be a good idea to buy a giant bag of hot dog buns from Costco. Oh, all the sausages and lobster rolls we'll eat! Two weeks later, I'm staring at 7 leftover buns in the fridge.
One thing I did know was that by the power vested in me I was not going to let these buns go to waste! I had barely started planning my triumphant victory when I stumbled across Amateur Gourmet's Hot Dog Bun French Toast recipe. This was my lucky day!
I suspected we wouldn't be able to eat 12 pieces of french toast (6 buns), so I halved the original recipe, added cinnamon to the batter and substituted half the milk for heavy cream. That means I used:
3 hot dog buns
1/4 cup milk + 1/4 cup cream
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 Tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
A pinch of salt
3 Tbs butter (for the pan)
We didn't have any almond slivers at the house, so I omitted them but made one of the hot dog buns into stuffed french toast. I figured they already had little pockets in them.
For the stuffed french toast, all I did was stuff one of the hot dog buns with organic cream cheese and homemade blueberry jam and pan-fry it on medium heat for 3 minutes on each side, pressing down a bit to get a better seal around the opening. Next time I'll lower the heat a bit and cook for 4 minutes on each side to get a gooier filling. But it still turned out great and was gobbled up immediately.
For some reason, we thought it would be a good idea to buy a giant bag of hot dog buns from Costco. Oh, all the sausages and lobster rolls we'll eat! Two weeks later, I'm staring at 7 leftover buns in the fridge.
One thing I did know was that by the power vested in me I was not going to let these buns go to waste! I had barely started planning my triumphant victory when I stumbled across Amateur Gourmet's Hot Dog Bun French Toast recipe. This was my lucky day!
I suspected we wouldn't be able to eat 12 pieces of french toast (6 buns), so I halved the original recipe, added cinnamon to the batter and substituted half the milk for heavy cream. That means I used:
3 hot dog buns
1/4 cup milk + 1/4 cup cream
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 Tablespoon sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
A pinch of salt
3 Tbs butter (for the pan)
We didn't have any almond slivers at the house, so I omitted them but made one of the hot dog buns into stuffed french toast. I figured they already had little pockets in them.
For the stuffed french toast, all I did was stuff one of the hot dog buns with organic cream cheese and homemade blueberry jam and pan-fry it on medium heat for 3 minutes on each side, pressing down a bit to get a better seal around the opening. Next time I'll lower the heat a bit and cook for 4 minutes on each side to get a gooier filling. But it still turned out great and was gobbled up immediately.
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