Guess what I had for lunch? - Democratic Underground

Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:25 PM
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Guess what I had for lunch?

Yes, that's right, I had an egg salad sandwich! There's a boatload more egg salad in the refrigerator and a plate of deviled eggs in there too.

My daughter was at first quite horrified that I cracked and peeled the Easter eggs, but she got over it when she tasted a deviled egg.

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clydefrand

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:33 PM
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1. My mother used to have boiled eggs, fried eggs and colored

eggs on Easter! We lived on a farm and had chickens...hence the abundance of eggs. I could never figure out why she thought we could eat any more eggs on Easter than on any other day.

My favorite way of having eggs is deviled (ON EASTER!, wow, that just sunk in) and egg salad. They taste the same to me, but it's bit messy trying to put the deviled ones between two pieces of bread!
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trof

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Sun Mar-27-05 06:27 PM
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22. A true southern girl MUST have at least one of these:

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Spinzonner

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Sun Mar-27-05 04:49 PM
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2. I wonder if that's how Jeffrey Dahmer got over his initial qualms

:-)

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Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:04 PM
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3. ??

I know you're trying to be funny, but drawing the parallel between my five-year-old kid and Jeffrey Dahmer is pretty creepy.

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Spinzonner

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:16 PM
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4. Bad taste about taste and how it overcomes our trepidations

It is a pretty far out analogy and not a moral equivalence by any means. But it is interesting how personal pleasure overcomes our sense of moral resistance - even in 5-year-olds.

Of course, that assumes attitudes not in evidence and difficult to evaluate for a child - or maybe just unexamined.

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Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:19 PM
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6. Well...she wasn't horrified because of a moral dilemma.

She was horrified because we colored them so beautifully and displayed them and then I *BROKE* them!

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Spinzonner

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:26 PM
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7. I guess a moral dilemma is in the eyes of the beholder

You may be just declining to categorize her reaction to the situation. You describe it without examining it.

The act of destroying what one views as beauty and product of earnest effort for the sake of pleasure surely is some kind of moral dilemma, though I hardly would expect a child to see it in those terms.

Why an adult insists on denial is another matter, of course.

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Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:30 PM
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8. Denial?

Okay, first you compare my kid's reaction to Jeffrey Dahmer. Then you over-analyze her annoyance at my cracking the Easter eggs, and then you imply that I am somehow in denial.

Good grief. All this over a post about freaking egg salad.

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Spinzonner

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:38 PM
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11. Some moral dilemmas are microcosms

Not every one is played out in the press and involves the government.

I just think its an interesting view of how our resistances and initial values are overcome by other personal rewards.

I never claimed there was any sort of moral equivalence.

You do seem to be making a big deal over some simple, if trivial, analogies. Wonder why ...

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Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:40 PM
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13. Because you've turned my fluffy little post about egg salad

into some kind of analysis I neither want nor need.

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Spinzonner

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:45 PM
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17. But you do seem to be obsessed about responding to it

Perhaps that bears some analysis ...

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Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:48 PM
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18. I'm "obsessed"? Responding to someone talking to me

in a thread I started is somehow "obsessed"?

Okay. Sure. Whatever you say.

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Spinzonner

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:54 PM
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20. Well, you do seem resistant to the premise of the discussion

and yet unable to let go of it.

That seems like some sort of an obsession to me.

And "Okay. Sure. Whatever you say" does often sound a bit disingenuous.

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candle_bright

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:39 PM
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12. I think your post was straightforward

Strange how it got hijacked and twisted around into something entirely unrecognizable. :crazy:

I get it, and Happy Easter! :)

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Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:41 PM
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14. Happy Easter to you too.

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Spinzonner

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:41 PM
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16. Perhaps you just refuse to recognize it

That hardly makes it unrecognizeable

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Kellanved

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:17 PM
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5. Ok, now you can guess what I had for dinner

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Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:41 PM
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15. Hard-boiled eggs?

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Kellanved

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:49 PM
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19. Oh, I keep those handy at all times

Alas, mostly in the fridge.

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Redstone

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:34 PM
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9. I won't analyze your egg salad,

except to ask what kind of bread it was on.

I favor toasted Portugese bread for egg salad.

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Left Is Write

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Sun Mar-27-05 05:36 PM
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10. I had mine in a pita pocket.

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Purrfessor

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Sun Mar-27-05 06:20 PM
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21. After reading this post I can only say that.....

I'd certainly hate to be Spinzonner's kid and have to listen to such analysis. And people wonder why good kids go bad. Look no further than Spinzonner.

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