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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: singles and meals (display much frustration here)
Message-ID: <1470@peora.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 22:43:52 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 11 22:43:52 1985
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>  Grate the potato into a hot frying pan with butter,or marg, etc.

Good heavens!  Now here is something I can relate to!  In my early days of
being a net.single (no, it was before the "net." got on the front), I also
had meal algorithms like this.  My favorite came off the back of an A-1
steak sauce bottle:

	Recipe for Steakburger.
	Just put A-1 on a hamburger, and presto! a steakburger.

Well, no, really my favorite was livermush, but alas, they don't make that
anywhere outside of Charlotte, NC.  However, you had to fry it, and also
boil some canned green peas to go with it.

However, modern technology being what it is, I have now reduced all meal
algorithms to one of two general purpose library subroutines, which I use
with great regularity:

algorithm_a()
{
	1) Punch holes in plastic bag.  (If you are bored you can skip
	   this step for added excitement.)
	2) Put bag in microwave.  Cook 5 minutes.
}

algorithm_b()
{
	1) Pull off plastic cover.
	2) Pull off foil cover; crumple up; throw away.
	3) Put plastic cover back on.
	4) Put in microwave.  Cook for time n, where n=(min_time)+(max_time)
	   * 0.5 from instructions on back of box.
}

Algorithm_b has the additional benefit that it has no "dish washing
coroutine" required, unless you want to save the handy little white frizbees
that come with the food.
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