Food Diary: Week One
A small cup of tea, one packet of ready salted Frisps, one Philadelphia wrap (ft. salted butter, table salt, chopped spring onions, ground black pepper, deepfried chicken strips, and leftover Double Dragon takeaway salt & pepper chicken chilies), one seedy bread sandwich (ft. salted butter, table salt, ground black pepper, mushy peas, deepfried spicy chicken strips, chopped spinach, and melted plastic cheese), three episodes of Summer Camp Island (some soft witchy content with a hint of Pratchett influence, albeit played very cutely, a reflection on struggling to connect with estranged dads and the relative strengths and limits of communicating through shared nerd interests, and a runaway bath tub / ode to estranged friend and getting on with connections after awkward romantic complications), one large portion of cheesy garlic mashed potato (divide a handful of potatoes, boil in salt water, leave to simmer for half an hour, strain, leave to cool for thirty minutes, mash in a large bowl with a little salted butter, several Laughing Cow cheese spread triangles, a pinch more table salt, and a spoonful of ground black pepper & garlic granules), two Mediterranean style pork chops, a whole packet of Haribo Tangfastics (sans alligators), Doctor Who (The Keys of Marinus), sleep.
One spinach wrap (ft. salted butter, table salt, microwaved leftover rice [ft. salted butter, ground black pepper, and smokey paprika], chopped spring onions, deepfried chicken strips, and diced red pepper), an episode of Jay & Miles X-Plain The X-Men (lurching into the long middle of an overstuffed 90s event), the back half of an Oh No, Ross & Carrie (on weird guided meditation sleep hypnosis), a whole sausage of cheap smoked cheese, several small slices of tiger bread (ft. salted butter), deepfried oven chips (dusted with salt & pepper, drizzled with Hellman’s mayonnaise, dripped with [Bull’s Eye] Carolina Reaper Extra Hot Chili Sauce, and scattered with chopped spring onions), deepfried salmon fillet slices (drizzled with sweet chili), a mug of pea soup (made with table salt, too much ground black pepper, a teaspoon of white sugar, a tablespoon of English mustard, chopped spring onions and shredded spinach), a Nuii Macadamia Nut & Caramel ice cream, the two concluding episodes of The Keys Of Marinus (Your Honor, the defense is ready to present! I won't lose! Not to the likes of you! I want the truth and nothing but the truth! I spy... a contradiction! Sure you're not forgetting something? A good lawyer has faith in his client... Wow! You gotta learn to keep cool under pressure...), a packet of salt & vinegar Frisps (ft. Philadelphia), Doctor Who (The Curse Of Peladon), sleep.
Another packet of salt & vinegar Frisps (ft. Philadelphia), another large portion of cheesy garlic mashed potato, peas (with salted butter, and ground black pepper), two Mediterranean style pork chops, one Philadelphia wrap (ft. salted butter, table salt, ground black pepper, cayenne pepper, a deepfried battered fish portion, and smoked paprika), four mini hash brown waffles (drizzled with ketchup, dusted with cayenne pepper and paprika), peas (with butter and pepper), one slice of seedy bread (ft. salted butter, Laughing Cow cheese spread and English mustard), two episodes of American Crime Story - Impeachment (I guess it’s just that the show is pretty slow paced but the season definitely feels long. At the halfway point now and it’s weird to think there’s another four or five episodes to go. Still, pretty compelling), one sesame seed bun (ft. salted butter, Laughing Cow cheese spread, salted butter, ground black pepper, and deepfried spicy breaded chicken bites), sleep.
Another sesame seed bun (ft. salted butter, Laughing Cow cheese spread, table salt, ground black pepper, deepfried spicy breaded chicken bites, melted plastic cheese chopped spinach, and diced cherry tomatoes), two triple chocolate cookies, some carrots, The Big Finish Eighth Doctor Audio adventure Blood Of The Daleks (wholesomely stodgy trad Doctor Who nonsense, rockets and asteroids for people who don’t need Billie Piper and soap opera, or clever time twists and whimsy, with their Who to want a big bowl of it – Dalek voices never cease to be a wonder), a fortune cookie (‘You will always be surrounded by close friends’), Double Dragon takeaway pork chow mien, Double Dragon takeaway salt & pepper chicken, the What If finale (there have been some highs to this series [Sad Doctor Strange, Fratboy Thor, and T’Challa Star Lord were all great fun], but it’s remarkable how the constrained feel of it all is what stands out once the dust settles. For a show boasting limitless potential nothing ever feels like it begins to live up to that, and bringing most of the leads from most of the episodes back for a team-up finale does cheapen any sense that this was about even the slightest shred of weirdness considerably. Still basically quite enjoyed the episodes on their own terms), two further triple chocolate cookies, milk (at intervals), Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer (there’s either nothing to say about this, or so much to say that I don’t know where to begin), and sleep.
