I had a BLT for lunch today in this
little sandwich shop over looking the lake with my wife,
and it *tasted* really good, it was
like I've never had something that tasted
so fr*()king good .. it made my mouth just water,
and I had this cranberry/apply grape drink with it,
and it tasted fr&^*k good too ! I grew up with BLT's
so it's not like I never had one before. Typical
bachlor fare for portion of my life.

During my drinking career ... I wouldn't eat anywhere
unless there was alcohol on the menu ... typically
beer in most places ... and for me that was my main
course I was really looking for ... the quantity or quality
of food meant little to me.

I'd just thought I share that.

On 22 Dec 2005 14:11:07 -0800, "Still Another Subliminal Message from Board
Tested Approved AA Cultist Member" <BeenThereGotAMug@Yahoo.com> wrote:

:|
:|I had a BLT for lunch today in this
:|little sandwich shop over looking the lake with my wife,
Snipped for brevity.
:|I'd just thought I share that.

Sounds like a good place. However, for really the best food, I would
respectfully suggest that maybe you take up cooking as a hobby. When you make
it yourself, you have it exactly as you like all the time. For me it makes it
worth washing a few dishes.


Have a nice day;

Bryce L. Martin

"Bryce L. Martin" <nothere@anymore.net> wrote in message
> Snipped for brevity.
>
> Sounds like a good place. However, for really the best food, I would
> respectfully suggest that maybe you take up cooking as a hobby. When
> you make
> it yourself, you have it exactly as you like all the time.

hahahaha, Bryce, if you could only read that with the eye of an
experimenter such as I, where the one rule is to repeat any serendipitous
recipe at least twice.

Practicing a little self honesty while making fearless and thorough
attempts at tasting, let alone digesting, is most advisable before daring
to share what I have with those willing to go to any lengths to get it. Is
it any wonder that preceding my first year of sobriety, in celebration of
which came the "at least twice" rule, the thriving fellowship of Guests
Anonymous here remains resentful of moi for serving their raison d'être!

> For me it makes it
> worth washing a few dishes.

Dependent on the artistic presentation thereon, paper plates look great.

Mine host sans the boast, Bob

Actually I do most of the cooking anyway.
..
The special part of today was being able
to enjoy little things like fresh cranberry/apple
juice and BLT without the need of a fix !

"Still Another Subliminal Message from Board Tested Approved AA Cultist
Member" <BeenThereGotAMug@Yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1135289467.342016.77430@g47g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...
>
> I had a BLT for lunch today in this
> little sandwich shop over looking the lake with my wife,
> and it *tasted* really good, it was
> like I've never had something that tasted
> so fr*()king good .. it made my mouth just water,
> and I had this cranberry/apply grape drink with it,
> and it tasted fr&^*k good too ! I grew up with BLT's
> so it's not like I never had one before. Typical
> bachlor fare for portion of my life.
>
> During my drinking career ... I wouldn't eat anywhere
> unless there was alcohol on the menu ... typically
> beer in most places ... and for me that was my main
> course I was really looking for ... the quantity or quality
> of food meant little to me.
>
> I'd just thought I share that.

Cultist dude,
That really resonates with my own sobriety. When I'm eating I actually
enjoy the food. When I'm choosing a restaurant I'm really choosing some
place to eat and not just some place that serves drinks with food being
incidental.
Looking back at it, it is amazing how much of the time involved in
"going out to dinner" was actually spent drinking. -- drinks at home before
going out, drinks at the restaurant bar before dinner, wine (and probably
drinks, too) with dinner, after dinner drinks at the dinner table, drinks at
the restaurant bar after dinner, and then, of course, "where are we going
for a few nightcaps?"
The first time that they brought me my dinner check with no drinks on
it, it was so small that I thought that they had made a mistake. My bar
bill was usually bigger than that before we went to the table.
I'll take it the way it is now, thanks.
Dan

This reminds me about the guy who said he used to drink once in a
while. Once in the morning and a while at night. I was at the bar for
lunch yesterday having a fish sandwhich drinking iced tea. I was with
a newbie and he was having a hamburger and an iced tea. We looked
around, and not one person at the bar was using alcohol. How different
the world used to look to me.

It doesn't really matter to me whether I cook, eat, or just don't
drink. 'If our testimony helps sweep away prejudice, enables you to
think honestly, encourages you to search diligently within yourself,
then, if you wish, you can join us on the Broad Highway. With this
attitude you cannot fail." (pg 55 )

I don't know how it works. It doesn't matter, as the joy of living on
the Broad Highway is it's own reward.