clear out your freezer

By alice | July 9, 2007

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This is the contents of part of one of our freezers: you can see two red containers of cheapo coffee, one flavoured with vanilla, next to the posher Italian coffee (and some other stuff, including a margarine tub containing chicken stock). A couple of years ago, we used to drink the cheapo coffee in large quantities made in a percolator, but since then I have reverted to being much more European, and we buy nicer coffee and make less of it using a stove-top espresso maker. Which is why I was amazed to discover that a quarter of our freezer space is being taken up with this stuff. It actually moved into the house with us last year, and has been hiding in plain sight ever since! Amazing.

So my household tip for today is: clear out your freezer, especially if space is limited. Things can lurk in there for a very long time, and it is impossible to know what you might find right in front of your very eyes! Also applicable to your store-cupboard, and any other aspect of your life as you wish.

A wise man never underestimates his own stupidity.

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One Response to “clear out your freezer”

Theocritus Says:
July 10th, 2007 at 7:16 am

There is something about most flavored coffees. I have grown fond of the Texas Pecan, available at HEB or Central Market–same ownership. I grind my own. But the vanilla flavoring tastes fine, just, for the first fifteen minutes after brewing and then there starts a soupcon de Texaco loo.

Once at a Central Market in your neck of the woods, the coffee barista, sorry, I like the HEB chains and would not insult them with the self-invented and smug world of Starbucks, clerk at the coffee display, asked me to try Snickers coffee. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose–there was that bit of Texaco loo back there again.

I’ve found that the most important determinant is that one get arabica beans instead of robusta, which are, well, more robust and cheaper to make coffee of, but in these days there is no reason not to have good coffee.

And I quite agree with your concept of extending this throughout your life. I’m trained as a mathematician, for it was the easiest degree I could take, and that training taught me to generalize a theory as much as possible. It may be shocking to consider that this works with unsatisfactory affaires de coeur.

And right also about stupidity. A lemma of that law is never argue with a fool for he’ll drag you down to his level and beat you with experience–Judy Wallace.