Declan McManus, pure but not simple 131,891 36
01/09/2011 02:31 AM

It was the twice baked potatoes, Chix.


They are totally passe.


Gratin Dauphinoise is where the action may be found these days.

Declan McManus, pure but not simple 131,891 36
01/09/2011 02:34 AM

Unless you're drinking Caffeine Free Coke (regular or sugar free,) you sure as anything are NOT decaffeinated. Even with the Bacardi. A 12 ounce Coke has 35 milligrams of caffeine, which is a little less than half a cup of real coffee.


Lo siento, Pollo!

Chit 178,781 15
01/09/2011 05:10 AM

Dude, maybe you should just stop watching naked dwarf porn videos before bed.

Yea...I bet it was the potatoes.

Whistler 186,138 44
01/09/2011 06:21 AM

There is a book called "Potatoes, Not Prozac," by Kathleen DesMaisons, PhD. It's a guide to detoxing from sugar for what she calls "sugar sensitive" people. According to Dr. DesMaisons, this detox will cure you of alcoholism, drug addiction, depression, anxiety, ADD/ADHD, boils, athlete's foot and chronically forgetting to pick you stuff up at the dry cleaner. I think most of the theory in it is a bunch of hooey, but there is a lot to be said for eliminating as much refined sugar as possible from your diet.

(As an aside to my brother, substituting diet sodas for regular is NOT recommended. Diet soda is horrible for you in so many ways. Drink water.)

In the book, she recommends eating a potato before bed. Preferably baked, with the skin. Supposedly this will set your bodily biochemistry in motion to get tryptophan into your brain to make serotonin.

Again, I'm not saying it's true, but many people have tried it and reported that they sleep better, wake up more refreshed and rested, and have extremely vivid dream while following this practice. In fact, some people have had such vivid dreams that they found they had to cut back to half a potato (similar to those of you who would only take half a tab of acid back in your college days).

If you're interested, but don't have the attention span to read a book, take a gander at her website: Radiant Recovery.*




*I am not a Doctor, nor do I play one on television. In fact, I would trust my expertise on matters concerning obsolete woodwind instruments and not much else. Zug.com and Media Showers, Inc. foreswear any responsibility for any injury or illness caused by following this advice. If you write it up and include pictures, though, they will pay you generously for the effort.**


**That last part is a bare-faced lie.

Under-appreciated. 101,398 77
01/09/2011 07:10 AM

I've tried cataloging everything I eat in order to explain the vivid, crazy dreams I have almost every night. Unfortunately, I was unable to find a connection. The determination was just that I'm batShakespeare insane.

Under-appreciated. 101,398 77
01/09/2011 07:21 AM

Like, the night before last I dreamed that Kchiki and I went to a beach beside a river to go jump off this 2-story high wooden tower. For fun. Only, before we could jump, some sky dragons appeared. They came from another planet, and I was the only one who could talk to them telepathically and control them, so NASA hired me to do so. Once a month, I would get put in a rocket and sent to the sky dragon planet, and then I would ride home on the back of one. I became a celebrity because of this and married MC Lars.

Unfortunately, my marriage didn't work out, and during a pre-Grammy party, MC Lars sat at a table with Dan O'Brien from cracked.com instead of me. We divorced, and then I was so depressed that I quit my job and stopped seeing sky dragons.

Under-appreciated. 101,398 77
01/09/2011 07:22 AM

Several years later I went on a dating game show where there were 9 male contestants and 9 female contestants. We were put together in a bar scene where we were supposed to mingle and get to know each other, to figure out who we wanted to go out on a date with. All the guys were fawning over me because I was still a known celebrity, but I was sick of that. I noticed that tehHaggis was there (though I didn't know him personally - he was just another contestant) but he completely ignored me. I found this fascinating, because I wasn't used to being ignored. He was having a tough time connecting with the other girls on the show though - he went over to one of them and they told him to "never mind, I don't date fat guys."

As she walked away, he shot back, "That's ok, because I don't date catty bitches."

This girl obviously didn't like this, and she told all the other female contestants to vote him off the show. When we got back to the studio, each contestant had the choice to either pick someone to date, or to vote someone off. Almost every girl had chose to vote Spicey out. I, however, chose him as my master date, and he had chosen me as well. This was a shock, because he hadn't talked to me at all, and was most likely a result of him knowing that everyone he had spoken with was going to kick him off.

I woke up before we could go on our date, but I bet it would have involved riding on a sky dragon.

KChikita Ipanema 128,451 98
01/09/2011 08:33 AM

What the hell, man?? I don't get to ride sky dragons too?

Under-appreciated. 101,398 77
01/09/2011 09:07 AM

No, but you did look really cute in your bikini as you drove around in your blue VW bug convertible.

Spicey McHaggis 117,791 37
01/09/2011 09:09 AM

Punchbuggy Blue! No punchbacks!

KChikita Ipanema 128,451 98
01/09/2011 09:47 AM

Okay, that almost makes up for it.

ALMOST!

Manhole 21,658 29
01/09/2011 10:36 AM

Supposedly this will set your bodily biochemistry in motion to get tryptophan into your brain to make serotonin.

I'm no doctor either, but I work with Tryptophan on a regular basis and have a good idea what it is.





Yep, that's Tryptophan. It's a basic Amino Acid, there are a total of 20. If you link two or more Amino Acids, you get what we call a Peptide. If you have greater than a hundred or so Amino Acids linked, you get a Protein. And we all know what Protein is.

I can tell you that you'll get a lot more Tryptophan into your system by eating meats than potatoes. The problem is that you'll get a lot of other AA's along with it. This is where carbs come to play. Tryptophan is not affected by insulin. Your body will produce insulin when you eat carbohydrates, such as potatoes. The insulin will remove all AA but Tryptophan from your blood, allowing it access your brain, which from the sound of it will trigger the serotonin release.

It would seem a meat sandwich before bed would be much more effective at this. There must be something else about a potato that I don't know.

3-wish Jeeni 47,815 51
01/09/2011 10:45 AM

It would seem a meat sandwich before bed would be much more effective

That's what he said!

Pandasarus 181,795 70
01/09/2011 02:12 PM

It would seem a meat sandwich before bed would be much more effective at this. There must be something else about a potato that I don't know.

Dammit, Jim! I'm an engineering genius, not a doctor!

The High Priestess 58,986 29 Puts on nerd hat
01/09/2011 03:50 PM

It's spelled Gimli, Chix.

Takes off nerd hat

Oooooh, you just got schooled by Priestess for spelling sucka!

Dogs Akimbo 211,626 32
01/13/2011 10:29 AM

There must be something else about a potato that I don't know

In college, potato had a potatosexual experience and and briefly dabbled in libertarianism.

KChikita Ipanema 128,451 98
01/13/2011 10:51 AM

Wouldn't a potato having a potatosexual experience be akin to having a heterosexual experience? I would think it would be more appalling for the potato to have had a carrosexual experience.

CAN YOU IMAGINE???

Straw hab a cobe 98,023 37
01/13/2011 10:55 AM

I'm gonna bore you with this because it is about dreams and it is about dinner, and it's been bugging me the past couple days.

I will occasionally have anxiety dreams about New York City. I'm not sure why. Anyway, the other night I had one, I think because Manhole was there recently, and in this particular version I was determined to make it to three of the (non-fancy) NYC food joints that I've seen featured on foodie shows.

There were three specific places I wanted to visit:

1) Pomme Frites, a place in Manhattan that specializes in french fries cooked and served in the traditional German/Belgian way - my desire to go there is nostalgic, from back when I lived in Germany.

2) A nonexistent-except-in-my-dream hot dog place.

3) Peanut Butter and Company sandwich shop. As you might guess, they specialize in PB sandwiches. I particularly want to order the Elvis, which has PB, bananas, honey, and (for extra $$) bacon on grilled bread. Oh-h-h-h mama!

Straw hab a cobe 98,023 37
01/13/2011 10:55 AM

In the dream, I actually wanted to go to #3 first, I guess because it seemed the most breakfast-y of the places. But somehow I ended up at #1 first. I didn't get to enjoy it, because I was super worried about making it to the other places before I had to leave NYC. As I was making my way through Manhattan, I somehow ended up at my parent's place, which was odd because they don't live in NYC. Coincidentally they lived right near the hot dog joint. I don't recall if I even ate there, because I still felt worried about making it to the third place.

I spent a long time during the rest of the dream trying to get there. I didn't want to pay for a taxi, so I kept trying to find the subway. I also tried to find a reliable map, but every one I encountered didn't have all the streets on it. I would see a sign for the subway across the street, but by the time I made it through traffic and people, the sign would be gone or it would be in another place across another street. I asked for directions, but people would look at me like I was crazy (subway, what's that?) or give me complicated directions. I finally decided to just get a frickin taxi, but couldn't find one of those, either.

Eventually I woke up when my alarm went off. No Elvis sandwich for me. I'm still depressed about it.

Decaf Chickens 286,647 61
01/13/2011 11:05 AM

Oooooh, you just got schooled by Priestess for spelling sucka!


You do know who you're talking to, right? The only person with worse spelling here is Trix, who I thank God for daily.

Decaf Chickens 286,647 61
01/13/2011 11:06 AM

NOT IN THAT WAY!

Straw hab a cobe 98,023 37
01/13/2011 11:10 AM

Oh, I just realized another trigger for the dream was that this weekend I was watching bits of Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist and the plot involves a lot of driving around NYC. At one point you could see the Papaya Dogs restaurant in the background, although that wasn't the one in my dream.

Dogs Akimbo 211,626 32
01/13/2011 04:15 PM

it would be more appalling for the potato to have had a carrosexual experience

Potato was actually part of an old, royal family from Europe and was a prince. Back in the 60's, he had a brief romantic relationship with Walter Cronkite. He had to break it off because his parents did not approve. They didn't care that it was a homosexual liasson; they couldn't approve of Cronkite because he was just a common 'tater.