Breakfast Time

Again, Johann gets off work at 5 PM or so. Yesterday, not 'til 6. And again, I just dropped that microbiologist off.

I am hungry; let's talk about eating. Sometimes I sit and wonder what everybody eats. What do you eat? There was a homosexual (East) Asian guy in my Mechanics course. He asked, "What do white people eat?" and was genuinely perplexed. He had rice. All the time. He said. It made up the bulk of his menu. What do I eat? I eat cereal. A hecka lotta cereal. Rice and cereal make sense to me. Bread is the basic food these days or grain or whatever. Carbohydrates provide the most calories/gram. Something like 9 kilocalories/gram. But, there are other foods. Like fruits and meat and...beans and nuts and sugar.

But what about fruits? Fruits are fantastic and I do eat them often. As many others have noted, fruits come ready made, ready packaged, while also being nutritious. Meats are freaking awesome, but cold cuts are much less so. I tend to eat meat seldom, due the difficulty in preparing it. If I were to always eat out, eating would be easy. As it is, eating is not easy. Preparation is killer. For no good reason, I'm a pretty cheap guy. That being said, I am terribly jealous of any Biolans with meal plans.

The eating habits of fellow college students interest me. I know a fair amount of college students, but I haven't lived in dorms and so I haven't really observed their eating habits. I've had one roommate. And now a South African, who hardly counts. We can't consider his eating habits normative.

Because I have a plan!
I am going to buy a lunch pail. Or cooler.
I am going to take my lunch to school with me.
Every day.
But I don't know what to put in it.
I am genuinely interested in chicken salad.
And potatoe salad.
And regular types of salad.
I have never made any of the above types of salad though.

I have hopes of efficiently preparing my week's lunches all on Sunday evening or something. Or with minimal effort and minimal grocery trips. I love efficiency and regularly estimate how much money I spent on gasoline driving 2.3 miles round trip to the grocery store. I think I might go eat some Cheerios with honey on top and a banana slices in it now. Which is what I had 1.5 bowls of last night around midnight. And for breakfast yesterday.

So what do white people eat?
What should I eat?

Maybe I'll be brave. I have eggs. I have hotdogs. I have onions. I bought tortillas with the explicit hope of eating them. I wish I had my potatoes back.