Terrible Top Tens
Last night two family members independently suggested Top Ten Tuesday ideas that I can only describe as terrible. It just goes to show this isn't as easy as it looks.
First, my husband came up with...
Top Ten Foods You No Longer Have to Eat for Your Ex's Sake. I pointed out I wasn't divorced so it would be hard for me to come up with ten (although if I were divorced there would no longer be soy milk in the house, not that I've ever tasted it). And besides this is a restaurant Top Ten. He said, OK, restaurants you no longer have to go to.
Then my daughter called from California to suggest Top Ten Hottest Bachelor Chefs. This is a regular feature in LA Weekly, or whatever their city magazine is, I'm sure. I told her I wouldn't know what chefs were hot, let alone single, because I try to stay out of their way and anonymous.
This idea reminds me of a Web site a college classmate of hers started and made a million bucks off of called Smoking Hot Waitresses (slogan: "When 20 Percent Just Isn't Enough"), which is sort of along the same lines. So much for an Ivy League education. Interestingly, I feel insulted that no one has nominated any waitresses from Baltimore.
Anyway, if anyone would like to contribute to foods your ex liked that you no longer have to eat, restaurants you no longer have to go to, or Smoking Hot Bachelor Chefs, please post below.
Comments
Elizabeth--please, these ARE truly terrible ideas. But, as you say, it's hard to come up with a better one. How about places to eat you can skip now that the kids are grown up and living on the West Coast? (It's been years and years since we've gone to Chile's ...)
Posted by: Darlene | October 11, 2007 7:03 AM
I was thinking of suggesting top ten places for lobster.
I must admit that this is in my own best interest since I'm six months pregnant and my husband has committed to taking me to fulfill this craving!
Posted by: r ai | October 11, 2007 7:29 AM
I'll put in my vote for smoking hot bachelor chefs: Sam Mason (NYC: wd-50, Tailor), Sam Talbot (Top Chef 2)..
Posted by: rstar | October 11, 2007 7:38 AM
My late first husband's whole family loved cracker meal, sautéed to VERY brown, and then mixed with spinach.
I never understood it. Why would anyone want to spend time double or triple washing spinach to be free of gritty sand and then add what is basically the same texture as sand back in.
As you might guess, I haven’t made it for a long time
Posted by: Janet | October 11, 2007 8:29 AM
What's fair is fair -- if you go the bachelor route, we also need to have hottest baacherlorette chefs as well!
(although a top ten list in Baltimore for both may be tough -- but that's another story for another time ....)
Posted by: Andy | October 11, 2007 9:36 AM
W/ the cooler weather coming, how about a Top 10 Soup Spots? And while I love a good chilli or MD Crab Soup, sometimes it's nice to have a wider selection. So maybe places that you know have more than two SOD (Soups of the Day) or places that go beyond the original two.
Posted by: aussiewonder | October 11, 2007 10:54 AM
I love the smoking hot waitress idea, but how about going with the Radar magazine thing? "Cayenne pepper-infused freeze-dried chocolate nuggets bathed in marshmallow-star anise foam." Southwest smores? The top ten restaurant menus in which one finds totally shameless, unabashed, and blatant hyperbole?
Posted by: Dave | October 11, 2007 1:54 PM
(a) Ahem, I read the blog.
(b) At least my idea was better than Dad's.
Posted by: Gailor Large | October 11, 2007 2:44 PM
ha! Gailor, Best Blog Comment. Ever.
As for Hottest Bachelor Chef, it has to be Bob Sugar.
Posted by: KAZ | October 11, 2007 4:20 PM
top ten places with great food and questionable service.
top ten place where you keep going, but don't know why you keep going back
Posted by: Bill | October 12, 2007 6:51 AM