grrlTravels

Peering into the inner recesses

Have you ever seen that commercial for a major discount airline? The one where the very nice woman goes to the restroom at her friend's/relative's/neighbor's house, and while she is in there she looks in the medicine cabinet because she just can't stop herself? And she finds something incriminating and starts to smirk to herself. But then all of the shelves come crashing down with a loud "Whoomp!!!" and the announcer says, "Want to get away"?

Some of those commercials are cringe-inducing. Some aren't, at least for me. (Personally I don't think that the men in the airport bathroom would really care all that much if a blinded contact-wearing woman intruded.) But the medicine cabinet got me thinking. Because I really couldn't care less what you have in your medicine cabinet. I, for one, spent not a little time and effort to make sure that no one would see my antidepressants, until I decided to come out of the closet and stop caring. And if you have some mysterious tube of gunk in your m.c., I probably won't know what it's for anyway.

No, if I had my way, I'd walk into your kitchen and look right into your fridge. I find the fridge much more interesting and telling. I'm just fascinated by what other people have in their fridges, things that I have never even thought of having in mine.

So without further ado, I'm going to reveal the contents of my fridge. In no particular order:

Most Expensive: Remainder of pork tenderloin from dinner? (I chose a bad night for this--I need to get to the grocery store)
Strangest: hot hot hot Hot Sauce purchased in Mexico (as compared with my very vanilla fridge growing up)
Dullest: Apple juice (are all of the other moms out there really just tired of thinking about apple juice All The Time?)
Overall Favorite: Seltzer (some people don't even know what seltzer is. And I'm sort of addicted to it, if it's possible to be addicted to water with bubbles in it)
Favorite Condiment: French's Yellow mustard (boring, and the only thing I could have been said to crave even the least little bit while I was pregnant)
Most Embarrassing: Tie
Can o Cheese (I thought E. might like it, but even he was offended)
Pre-diced garlic (I know real chefs would never use garlic out of a jar, but it's so much easier and faster)
Miscellany:
--Leftover hot peppers from hoagies on Friday at lunch (won't have anything to eat them with even if they are good ones)
--Lemons (I always think I want them for my seltzer because I get them in the restaurant but TOO LAZY to slice them at home)
--Cheese spread purchased this summer (Still good? Who knows? K. lives and dies by expiration dates--too bad this doesn't have one)
--Non-diet caffienated soda for guests--we don't drink it
--Oranges (Quickly going past their prime)
--Celery (ditto)
--Hot dogs (we eat them, ok? OKAY?)

(In order to play the game, I've decided just the fridge for today. The freezer can come another day, when I decide to risk the frostbite.)

Well, I should have made a feverish trip to Trader Joe's before revealing all, but that's it for tonight. I'm sure most of you have much more interesting fridges, so feel free to comment with your most interesting item. We'll keep a list. I'll post it inside my medicine cabinet to make sure all of the guests see it.

Posted by grrlTravels at October 26, 2004 8:54 PM