Envy of other peoples relationships gets all the girls wet.

Easy killer. Maybe she's happy? Maybe extreme dedication/commitment is her thing? Who knows.

I'm single and dateless as well and this makes me depressed not angry.
Depresses and hungry...

I think it's part of the formula for that kind of a show to have an SO in the picture, someone on the 'inside' they can go to for thoughts on what living with the person is like. That would relate the subject to an audience more than what a doctor or even friends think about them.

Boomer

So, surviving on a diet of trash TV has not landed you a fiance. Perhaps you should switch to the pizza dating scene?

Dude listen to that woman talk. She's so passive aggressive and shrill, you don't need that. Listen to her telling him that she wants him to never change being someone different in the future that she imagines for him. And she is at best a HB5. Prickly Pete, you can do better.

You're putting too much focus on one throw away line I had in there about not being able to get a date. That's just an amusing aside, don't let it detract from the point. The point is how damaged are these people that they keep settling for things like this? That would stand whether I had zero dates or 10,000 dates so let's move away from that aspect of it, I was just trying to be funny. But in a marketplace where every little quirk can get you a tv show, where's a show called "My Insane Spouse," or something? I wanna know these peoples' back stories damn it! WHO HURT YOU, MADELINE??

The Mothership, HB5 made me lol.

I keep trying to forget that nomenclature. THANKS!!

It looks like you view relationships and particularly marriage as a marker of success, which is a shame. No matter how terrible and/or ugly you are (physically, emotionally, whatever), especially at a certain age, finding someone to shack up with you is not all that difficult. Some of the worst people I've ever met have been married, sometimes multiple times. I get that you're probably lonely, but getting married is not an accomplishment.

Eating a lot of pizza isn't like a huge deal breaker if they have some really positive qualities to balance it out. This guy is charming, dresses well, he's reasonably attractive, and he's got enough initiative to start his own business in the basement.

I know judging weirdos on the internet is basically our schtick here, but you don't have to hate on this guys girlfriend.

We don't have to, but we should, we must, and we're going to.

No kidding. Even just buying a store made crust and adding your own sauce and toppings is better than anything you can get from the frozen section.

It's actually fun to experiment with the shitty frozen pizza (there was this one kind that was ten pizzas for ten bucks at the Pick and Save.) It's kind of like Top Ramen.. assuming we've all spent some amount of time in Top Ramen town. There's restaurants that sell it for 11-15 bucks but I've figured out ways to make the 10 cent kinds about as good, or at least I try with other ingredients around the house. I don't think I could eat it every day, but unlike other cheap college food, Jack's frozen Pizza and Maruchan Top Ramen don't make me throw up in my mouth a little when I think about those days.

According to a South Korean study, if you eat ramen more than twice a week you may as well be taking a sledgehammer to your heart. Pizza is probably a stupendously superior food.

Fluffy - the reason this man doesn't cook anything himself is part of his neurosis. He's fucking nuts.

meme,
Food doesn't work like that. The Korean study is association not causation where I doubt there is much validity.

Below is the sum of honest evidence based advice on diet (for anyone that isn't suffering from a specific allergy or condition):

-Easy to get calories these days, don't eat too many.

-You probably need to eat a fair bit of fiber, probably to crowd out all the easy calories you can eat these days.

-Avoid transfats.

-You are almost certainly getting your daily RDI for vitamins with today's food supply, but if you aren't sure, check.

-Have you started drinking? Don't. You should probably stop if you have.

-Do you drink a lot? You should definitely stop.




That is it. There is essentially very little else science has to say (this subsumes anythng you've heard about stuff like MSG, salt, antioxidants, aspartame, wine for your heart etc. )

It doesn't mean that nothing else is true, but very little can be said confidently outside of the above.

I cut my teeth on chairs, and i still sell 'em for cheap. -Chairforcheap

First thing I thought too- how depressing that he's not much of a connoisseur. Also, I didn't watch the whole thing but I'm going to pleasantly imagine he gradually extends his diet through the pizza medium by like layering rice and noodle on top of his pizzas

I'll drink to that advice gmol

Sounds like pasta lobby propaganda to me, son.

Present your medical degree credentials or go home, pasta nazi.

*chugs beer*

gmol,

most vitamins are easy to get enough of, but B12 is difficult if you're a vegan, and D is difficult if you're a lactose-intolerant Seattleite, such as I am. I really should get my level checked again, now that I've been taking high-dose supplements for a while, since last time my D level was below the detection threshold of the test. It's a wonder my bones don't break every time I go outside.

Fluffy,
Never understood the vegan worry about B12. Pretty sure I get all my B12 from fortified stuffs like cereal and almond/soy milk.

Do you have a basic, simple sauce recipe that you are fond of? Is this something we should take over to schadenfood.org?

For sauce I just use the jarred marinara sauce from my local Kroger-equivalent. It suits me just fine.

But yeah schadenfood could use more activity. By all means, feel free to discuss food there!

I can appreciate really low quality food. Every so often I still have a craving for the horrible, cracker-thin $.99 cent I.G.A. frozen pizzas of the 90s, and wish they still existed.

Who was it who had the famous quote about how only liking high class, "quality things is one of the surest signs that a person has no taste? Because he really nailed it with that one. It's the same reason lawyers who buy ,000 guitars usually just listen to horseshit like Johnny Lang.

I started making my own dough from scratch this month, suddenly pizza seems downright healthy since it's not full of way too much oil and salt. Even the fresh dough from the local bakery was way too wet and sticky, homemade's the way to go. I'm even learning to toss it all fancy like.

He doesn't like pizza without vegetables because that doesn't taste like pizza to him.

I posted a dough recipe on schadenfood, in case you're interested: http://forum.schadenfood.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2

I'd like some clarification as well.

By choice he seems to only eat cheese pizza, but said 'I don't only eat pizza' right at the start. Does he consider his insulin as food?


Are there even the proper vitamins and minerals between the cheese/dough/tomato sauce to keep a human being alive? Is he chugging fiber and vitamin supplements between pizzas to keep alive?

Thanks for the recipe, I'll try that! I've been doing a mix of white and light whole wheat flours, and making about half that quantity (3.5 cups flour to 1.5 cups water). Also instead of salt I've lately taken to using a teaspoon of baking soda, and I usually add a tablespoon of olive oil to the water right before I start adding the flour. I ten to put a teaspoon of brown sugar in at the same time as the yeast, too, and sometimes I'll toss in some rosemary or basil but not lately. And I knead instead of stirring, but after it rises I don't beat it down or anything, I just flatten it into a disc maybe 6 inches in diameter, a bit thinner in the middle, and then toss it until its about 12". I've been baking on a cheap stone from Target at 450 but I'll try 550 next time. I've found that kneading it after it comes out of the refrigerator makes it harder to stretch, so unless
I'm impatient I try to let it warm up to room temperature slowly and rise a bit more. Usually I'm impatient though.

You have to watch your diet, "allegedly."