> > Mr Kinzig has been quite the refrigerator tyrant recently, tossing things
> > out willy-nilly just because they've "passed their date."  
> I'm afraid I'm with Mr. Kinzig 

sigh.  well.  When being married to him gets to be too much, I'm sending him 
your way! 

> I have a major avoidance alarm on milk approaching it's "due date" (or
> anything else)
> Kevin always teased me that the clock didn't strike midnight on X date and
> the milk suddenly went bad, but sorry... can't convince me!

EXACTLY!  See!  That's what happens in our house.  He practically keeps a 
calendar inside the refrigerator.  If he could coordinate Outlook reminders 
with food items, he'd be a happy man.

> I particularly liked the King ofthe Hill episode where Bobby (the son) was
> on allergy medication that made him dragged out and a little surreal. He was
> at the dinner table and said in a weird voice "there's milk in the
> refrigerator about to go bad.  And there it goes" and I
> thought... YES! How TRUE! 

  That.  I love that.  I don't watch King of the Hill often, but it 
usually makes me laugh.


> > Apparently, three bags of
> > different sorts of flour is too many.  He should go to my parents' house:
> > they have an entire refrigerator door devoted to flour bags & pickles!
> when dad was in his sourgough bread baking obsession he had flour and
> starter everywhere... buckets of fermenting starter all over the kitchen. My
> mom was going insane. She figures they spent hundreds of dollars on flour.
>  Sorry -- there's a limit, dear 

Well.  It isn't *that* bad at our house!  I have small bags & they live behind 
the compost bucket (which, yes, lives in our fridge) where they are mostly 
unobtrusive & unoffensive!  I figure, if we still have room for juice bottles, 
salad, and beer, the flour can stay.  And it keeps it from getting those 
strange moths.
 
> > emily, flour is good stuff, and we have twenty pounds of rice in the
> > garage because it was *on sale*, insouciant grunion
> 
> But if you don't eat that rice what does it matter how good the price was?
>  Do you get a lot of use out of it being in the garage? :)

bu-bu-but... I don't have *cabinet space* in the kitchen!  I do too use it!  
Mostly!!  However, Brett just loves to ask me if we need rice everytime we do 
the marketing.  Gah.  

emily, rice is good for you, it is!!, insouciant grunion

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