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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 12:36 PM
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Poll question: So, you had your wisdom teeth pulled; no solid food for a week!
Edited on Sat Jul-23-05 12:37 PM by mutley_r_us
What is the first thing you will have when you can eat solid food again? (These are all things I've been drooling over during the last week).
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 12:38 PM
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1. I had an Italian hoagie.
That's the only thing I remember from my Percocet-induced haze.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 12:39 PM
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2. Yeah.
I saw a commercial for a local sub shop today, and I thought I would eat the TV!
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 12:55 PM
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3. sweet!
keep it coming, folks. I need to dream for another day or two until I can chew again!
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marbuc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:47 PM
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36. A week with no solid food?
Did you have 4 out at once? I did two at a time, and had no such restriction. As soon as it was comfortable for me to eat, I did, which may have been the next day, but probably the day after. I'm now remembering a prohibition on chips, but that's not biggie for me. The biggest thing for me was that I couldn't drink alcohol while taking antibiotics. I was in college at the time, so this was a big deal.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:51 PM
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37. I only had two out.
But one got infected, and it's been far too painful to eat solid food. The dentist didn't even put a restriction on it, I just couldn't. I have the alcohol restriction too, which isn't a big deal because I don't drink very often.
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Montauk6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 08:34 PM
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55. Yeah, I don't recall that restriction either
THE WORST part was that blood-soaked gauze that had to be changed daily. Yuck!
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marbuc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 08:52 PM
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56. I don't remember that being so bad
The worst part was the percoset running out and my mouth still aching.
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Celeborn Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:04 PM
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4. Cheeseburger from Hardee's
:9
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:06 PM
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5. Wow.
I haven't seen a Hardee's for years! They still exist? I'm thinking more along the lines of all the commercials I've seen lately for Ruby Tuesdays Burgers.
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Celeborn Skywalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:15 PM
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9. Yeah, they do
In some places they're called Carl Jr.'s.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:10 PM
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6. Have you been eating Spaghetti-Os?
Got me through having my wisdom teeth pulled.

As for the poll question: Chinese food. Definitely.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:12 PM
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7. I can't believe I forgot Chinese food!
Edited on Sat Jul-23-05 01:13 PM by mutley_r_us
:mad: That is definately in the running as well.

I had Spaghetti-O's once this week, but some of it got stuck in the socket and it huuuuuurrrrttt. I've been mainly subsisting on very soupy soup, yogurt, and icecream.
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marbuc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:55 PM
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40. soupy soup?
Made by the same people that bring us Juicy Juice?
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:58 PM
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42. lol, no but it should be!
I mean soup without big chunks of good stuff in it. Very watery. I've mostly been eating those Campbells To-Go things. They have little small pieces of actual food in there, nothing big.
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Cathyclysmic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:14 PM
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8. Pizza is always at the top of the list
after being sick or a diet, whatever
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:16 PM
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10. I've seen the Papa John's commercials about 100 times this week
and it does look really good!
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Cathyclysmic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:28 PM
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11. So did you get a tooth pulled?
or is this a hypothetical question?

Because I don't think you should torture yourself with pizza threads!(just my opinion)
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:35 PM
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12. I got the lower two pulled.
(Thank goodness for the gap in between my upper teeth!)

And the gums on the right side got infected. Today is the first day I haven't felt sick, and I haven't had to take nearly as much of the pain meds. Plus the swelling is finally going down.

I've been torturing myself all week with this stuff. I haven't had much to do except watch TV, and all those food commercials have been killing me!
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Cathyclysmic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:43 PM
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15. oy! Mr Beastman just told me it was for real
Maybe you should have someone go to DQ and get you a blizzard.

and just channel surf during the commercials...It drive Mr Beast man crazy, but then you don't have to sit thru the pizza commercials
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:49 PM
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17. I have been eating icecream.
Yum! But I didn't mind the commercials all that much. They gave me something to look forward to when I felt like the pain would never go away.
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Cathyclysmic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 08:30 PM
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54. Well, I hope you feel better soon!
:hi:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 08:04 AM
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60. Thanks!
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radwriter0555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:39 PM
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13. Why did you wait a week? Hell, I went on a date the day I had my
wisdom teeth pulled. Of course I DID have soup that night.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:42 PM
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14. Lol. I wasn't going ANYWHERE for the last week.
between the infection and the percocet I've been so sick this week. I went to this guy's prom back in highschool a day after he had his wisdom teeth pulled, and he was so miserable we left after an hour.
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Reynardine Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:46 PM
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16. Sushi
If I can afford it.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:50 PM
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18. Ew!
I can't stand fish. The only sushi I ever tried and liked was a tuna fish one, which for some reason I can tolerate tuna fish. Oh, and a few veggie ones too.
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Reynardine Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:55 PM
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19. I can't stand cooked fish
It surprised me to find out how much I like sushi.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:56 PM
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20. I've had a few bites of regular sushi.
My stepmother went through a big sushi phase, and insisted that I try it, even though I hate fish. So I tried it, and hated it.
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 01:57 PM
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21. no rice!
You shouldn't have anything with rice until the holes are completely healed. For one thing, the grains get lodged in the holes, and the starch makes the stitches brittle.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:01 PM
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22. Okay, I'll remember that.
Won't anything small enough get in there? How long does it take for the holes to heal?
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:54 PM
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38. Ask your surgeon
Anything small can get in there, but, in my case, anyway, rice was exactly the right size to get lodged in there, and too smooth to get out without condiderable work.

BTW, I happened to have SEVEN wisdom teeth, three of which were below the gumline. Three procedures to get them all, and I lost a "good tooth" in the process.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:56 PM
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41. Wow!
Seven! I won't be needing anymore surgery on mine thank goodness. I did get a little piece of Spagetti-O in there the other day, and that hurt like hell!
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:03 PM
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43. yeah, I'm a freak of dentistry.
the top two came out no problem (most of the time they do), but the bottom five... yeesh. And one of them had tried to com up under a good molar. That's the molar I lost, as the wisdom tooth put enough pressure to crack it in half. I only found out when I pulled on it and half of it easily came out between two bloody fingers.

Even my dentist was, like, "wow...that's a new one!"

Damed inbread British jawbones!
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:04 PM
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45. Thats crazy.
I'll bet you were in more pain than I've been in!
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 05:28 PM
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53. Well.... probably not.
This was just before I met my future wife, and I was dating a doctor who was addicted to self-prescribed Demerol. They were laying all around her house like hard-candy at your grandma's, and I was whacked out on them most of the time until I had my WTs pulled.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:21 PM
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23. After two weeks of no solid food (I had an infection)
my jaw muscles were so stiff that all I could eat was one French fry at a time, inserted lengthwise.

I'm not making this up.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:23 PM
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24. Ooooo, I hope I don't have that problem
because I plan to eat a lot of food when this crap gets better!
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:27 PM
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25. Ugh. Don't remind me. I'm gettting mine out in August.
:scared:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:34 PM
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28. Ouch, good luck!
Stock up on lots of non-solid foods! I hope yours goes easier than mine did!
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:36 PM
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30. Thanks.
For someone who's never been in the hospital and never even been put under anesthesia, I'm more than a little nervous. :(
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:38 PM
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32. Well, they didn't anesthetize me, they just gave me loads of Novocaine.
The actual removal wasn't bad at all, I didn't feel a thing. It was just after the Novocaine wore off that I was in hell!
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:41 PM
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33. I had two teeth pulled a couple years ago,
and they didn't put me under. It was terrifying and extremely painful, even with the painkillers. I'd sooner be put to sleep than go through that again.

Lucky you, though...enjoy that solid food! :)
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:44 PM
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34. Oh, I will!
I'm literally drooling right now just thinking about it.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:30 PM
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26. Raw steak, fresh ground pepper, salt, and garlic in a blender....
Mmmmmm!
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:36 PM
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29. Raw steak! In a blender?
EWW! It should at least be medium; I have a bit of an irrational fear of too much pink in my steak.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:45 PM
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35. It won't hurt you. I love a raw steak, and no (0) carcinogens!
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:54 PM
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39. Ha! You obviously didn't take 9th grade biology with the same teacher as
me. She pounded into our heads all semester the dangers of eating meat with pink in it. And even though I know a lot of that was crapola inforamation, I still can't help but think of all those videos she showed us.... :scared: I used to get my steak well done until about a year ago when I decided to risk cutting back to medium. I used to eat them rare before that class, but I don't think I'll ever get there again.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:04 PM
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44. That bitch did you a terrible disservice! The human animal ate...
raw meat millions of years before we ate it cooked.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:10 PM
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46. In my head, I know that.
But... also in my head, are those videos.

When I waited tables at Chili's, we were not allowed to serve a steak that was cooked less than medium. I had more than one pissed off customer on that one!
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:23 PM
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47. Yep, I tell waiters I want my steak as close to raw as I can get it...
A big chef at "Ryan's" flame-broils them about 15 secs. on each side for me. The last one I ate had to have weighed two pounds! :-)
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:32 PM
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48. Thats a lot of meat!
I wouldn't be able to handle half of that! Em, no pun intended.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:39 PM
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51. Yes'm, he doubled it over on my plate and it still lapped over...
It's a buffet, but all I got on the side was some grilled mushrooms. It was more that I normally eat in a week, but it sure was delicious! :)
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:43 PM
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52. I'll bet.
Do you have Fuddruckers in Texas? Well if not, it's this big burger joint place. Anyway, they have a 1lb burger than I cannot get through, no matter what. And I always order it when I'm starved, but still can't get through it.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 07:55 AM
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58. There used to be a Fuddruckers over by the NASA Space Center...
I'm not sure if it's still there though. I've eaten there before.
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cheeseit Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:32 PM
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27. Quattro Formaggio pizza
:9
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 02:36 PM
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31. mmm, that sounds good too.
Anything with lots of cheese would be great!
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:33 PM
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49. Eat something
so that when you barf violently all over the place, you aren't spoiled for that food forever.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 03:36 PM
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50. I've been eating semi-solid and non-solid food all week
like spagetti-os, soup, yogurt, and ice cream, but it hasn't been enough to satiate me.
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fortyfeetunder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-23-05 08:59 PM
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57. When I lost mine, I could deal with restriction
The dentist recommended drinking milkshakes and some soft scrambled eggs. And I pureed spinach with garlic and butter. A tasty inconvenience.....
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 08:06 AM
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61. My dentist just told me to eat soft foods.
But I was in too much pain to even do much of that. I ate nothing at all the first two days, then just soups and yogurt the second two days. Then last night I was able to take a few small bites of my SOs cheesesteak! Ohhhhh a cheesesteak never tasted so good.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 07:56 AM
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59. I had pizza.
And steak after that.
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-24-05 08:07 AM
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62. I think I will end up eating until I get sick again.
:rofl:
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