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A lottery winner after our own hearts

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"Frugal NC lottery winner has lofty plan with newfound cash — buy thicker bologna"

 

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Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged.  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

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This actually raises an interesting question. If all of a sudden (or even not so suddenly) you had a continuing supply of lots and lots of money, would it change your eating habits? Would you opt for Wagyu whenever you felt like it? Would you indulge in Caspian caviar? Would you choose wild king salmon instead of farmed sockeye? Jeni's instead of Breyers ice cream? Brunello instead of Chianti? Or would you just buy thicker bologna and call it good?

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Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged.  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

No amount of belief makes something a fact.  -James Randi, magician and skeptic

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8 minutes ago, Alex said:

This actually raises an interesting question. If all of a sudden (or even not so suddenly) you had a continuing supply of lots and lots of money, would it change your eating habits? Would you opt for Wagyu whenever you felt like it? Would you indulge in Caspian caviar? Would you choose wild king salmon instead of farmed sockeye? Jeni's instead of Breyers ice cream? Brunello instead of Chianti? Or would you just buy thicker bologna and call it good?

The Barenaked Ladies had this one covered, decades ago. 

"If I had a million dollars,
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner.
(But we would eat Kraft Dinner. Of course we would, we'd just eat more.
And buy really expensive ketchup with it.
That's right, all the fanciest... Dijon Ketchup. Mmmmmm.)"

 

ETA: "Kraft Dinner" is what the blue-box mac & cheese is called, here in Canada, often just shortened to "KD." 

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." Ursula K. Le Guin

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I like what I like ;) and I doubt I'd change my eating habits if I ever had such a windfall.  Maybe I could afford to indulge in what I like more often (champagne, fois gras) than once a year.  But the question makes me think of what I would really miss if I couldn't afford it anymore.....  just today I was wondering what else we would/could have for Christmas dinner (usually I get a beef roast like a prime rib) because the price of beef is just insane....

 

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My life wouldn't change much.

 

Perhaps I'd eat the same food but in better locations.

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2 hours ago, gfweb said:

My life wouldn't change much.

 

Perhaps I'd eat the same food but in better locations.

 

I'd definitely go out more.

1 hour ago, Kerry Beal said:

I suspect if I won - other people would eat better!

 

But really - how much better could they eat, if you're already cooking for them!?

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3 hours ago, chromedome said:

The Barenaked Ladies had this one covered, decades ago. 

"If I had a million dollars,
We wouldn't have to eat Kraft Dinner.
(But we would eat Kraft Dinner. Of course we would, we'd just eat more.
And buy really expensive ketchup with it.
That's right, all the fanciest... Dijon Ketchup. Mmmmmm.)"

 

ETA: "Kraft Dinner" is what the blue-box mac & cheese is called, here in Canada, often just shortened to "KD." 

 

 

Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged.  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

No amount of belief makes something a fact.  -James Randi, magician and skeptic

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12 hours ago, Alex said:

This actually raises an interesting question. If all of a sudden (or even not so suddenly) you had a continuing supply of lots and lots of money, would it change your eating habits? Would you opt for Wagyu whenever you felt like it? Would you indulge in Caspian caviar? Would you choose wild king salmon instead of farmed sockeye? Jeni's instead of Breyers ice cream? Brunello instead of Chianti? Or would you just buy thicker bologna and call it good?

After thinking about it overnight, I don't know that my eating habits would change much (though my GF would certainly want lobster more often). If anything I'd probably splurge on a whole wheel of good Parmigiano-Reggiano, maybe. Probably a cold room for that and some other cheeses, as well as my pickles and some of the hardier things from my garden. And a kitchen renovation. But those aren't directly "eating." 

 

Honestly, I'd probably be spending more often on books than anything food-related (though given the cost of a kitchen reno, I don't know that I'd be spending more on books... just buying them more often). 

“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." Ursula K. Le Guin

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