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	<title>The Lair of the Cubelodyte &#187; Food</title>
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		<title>Live Cultures</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2009/03/20/live-cultures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking down into my trashcan, staring at the bottom of an upturned yogurt container. Fifteen minutes ago, I devoured its contents with gusto, savoring every spoonful. Now I&#8217;m looking at it. I cannot turn away.
It is empty; I have ingested its semiviscous innards. Discarded, it should be of no further concern, but it speaks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Nog Season Opener</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/17/2008-nog-season-opener/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/11/17/2008-nog-season-opener/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Comrades! Eggnog is now available in the white office fridge. Nog season is officially open! Rejoice!
And yes, before you ask, dear office-mates, the answer to the invariable followup question is &#8220;yes&#8221;.
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		<title>An Unexpected Pairing</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/29/an-unexpected-pairing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s accidental discovery: it turns out a handful of M&#038;Ms and a glass of gew&#252;rtztraminer are a lot less incompatible than I would have guessed.
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		<title>Par for a Monday Morning</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/29/monday-morning-meh/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/29/monday-morning-meh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was looking forward to getting into the office today and brewing myself a cup of French Vanilla tea I&#8217;d bought on Friday and stashed in my desk drawer. I love vanilla, and was really looking forward to drinking some the morning&#8217;s oatmeal. Somehow, though, despite its rich vanilla aroma, this tea manages to taste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lunch-O-Vision</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/10/lunch-o-vision/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/09/10/lunch-o-vision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To my incredulous colleague (you know who you are!) who indignantly demanded to know what sort of lunch I could have brought from home that would possibly cause me to&#8212;unthinkably&#8212;reject their offer of an ambrosial luncheon over Taco Bell &#8220;food&#8221; at the Silo, here is my pictorial answer, as promised:
&#160;

I&#8217;m not sure why you dared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plums and the Eating Thereof</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/07/07/plums-and-the-eating-thereof/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/07/07/plums-and-the-eating-thereof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The plum crop is in, and, though less bountiful than last year&#8217;s bumper crop, it is still ridiculously large. Like last year, there is simply too much to eat fresh before it spoiled, so I set about making plum jelly in order to preserve as much of it as I could. 
I got as far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Marketing Mystery</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/07/01/farm-snacks/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/07/01/farm-snacks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was strolling through the grocery store yesterday when I took a turn down the cereal aisle. The kids naturally began clamoring for sugary, crunchy whatsits, but I was able to deflect their demands by pointing out that we already had a supply of said sugary whatsits. Undaunted in their voracity, they ran further down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mon Cherries</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/01/mon-cherries/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/06/01/mon-cherries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[компютриOrdinarily, I don&#8217;t share the cherries from the tree in the backyard. I eat them all myself. Selfish? You betcha. 
This season, though, there&#8217;s simply so many that even I can&#8217;t eat them all. Since they&#8217;re sweet cherries, they&#8217;re not particularly good for turning into jam and jelly, and I can&#8217;t stand to see something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finger-Lickin&#8217; Good</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/04/15/finger-lickin-good/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/04/15/finger-lickin-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the local Winco supermarket. In the &#8220;canned meat/soup&#8221; aisle, I found cans of &#8220;whole chicken&#8221;. As in bones and everything. I don&#8217;t know why it should have bothered me so much, but I really found it mildly unsettling to think about a whole bone-in chicken in a can. 
I had a sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pimp My Burger</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/02/11/pimp-my-burger/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2008/02/11/pimp-my-burger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a whim, I took the boys out to eat tonight. We ended up at the local instance of Red Robin. I don&#8217;t go there a whole lot, since A) the service invariably sucks and B) I&#8217;ve spent more than my share of hours there, having worked for the chain many moons ago. Nonetheless, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The One True Chip</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/02/02/the-one-true-chip/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2007/02/02/the-one-true-chip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who know my eating habits know that I have a particular affinity for salty, crunchy comestibles. I will turn up my nose at all manner of sweets and baked confections, but open a package of Doritos within earshot of my desk, and my face will be burrowing to the bottom of the bag with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Cheer and PowerBeer</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/12/08/christmas-cheer-and-powerbeer/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/12/08/christmas-cheer-and-powerbeer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2005 02:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long, difficult way back to feeling holiday spirit again, but I have slowly regained the ability to feel Christmas cheer. Why? Well, it&#8217;s due in no small measure to the vicarious joy my sons feel; Christmas is still well within the limits of magical for my oldest, and this is the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Them&#8217;s good eatin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/11/02/thems-good-eatin/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/11/02/thems-good-eatin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2005 18:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of those things you never think about (or never want to think about): how much yuck gets into your food? You probably have heard the story about how the federal government (and state governments) establish rules for, say, how many cockroach legs can go into a batch of hot dogs and still be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weird and wonderful</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/08/08/weird-and-wonderful/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/08/08/weird-and-wonderful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2005 17:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O distant Japan
  your foodstuffs are frightening 
  does it affect your children? 
slimy bean curd: yuck!
  your kitchens are redeemed, though,
  through weeniegami. 
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		<title>Nietzsche was Right</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/05/03/nietzsche-was-right/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2005/05/03/nietzsche-was-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2005 17:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t stare too long into the abyss of rancid foodstuffs.
 In the company break room, the refrigerators are supposed to be purged every Friday afternoon, so that nothing sour, rotten, or otherwise disagreeable is allowed to fester within. This rigorous schedule hasn&#8217;t been followed for a while since our office manager suffered an injury, quite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Potpourri of the damned</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/10/14/potpourri-of-the-damned/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/10/14/potpourri-of-the-damned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lately there have been some late-night feeds in the company break room. How do I know? Because when I get here at 4:00 AM, the dessicated, cold scraps are still gracing the tables. The other day I thought it was curious that I smelled Chinese food out in the hall, but, upon entering the break [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Terrible Mistake</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/08/12/a-terrible-mistake/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/08/12/a-terrible-mistake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2004 00:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of people give soy-based products a bad rap. I am now one of them. The following is a public service announcement. 
I made the recent mistake of going to the grocery store hungry. For me, one of the four major food groups is &#34;Crunchy&#34;. Chips, crackers, and other snack foods have been known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate with Nuts</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/06/24/chocolate-with-nuts/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/06/24/chocolate-with-nuts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2004 20:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve tried to be good. Really, I have. I&#8217;m also not fixated on things scatological, I swear. It&#8217;s just that the office bathroom continues to be a rich vein of stories to mine. It&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m setting any of this up. It just seeks me out and presents itself. 
Of course, it doesn&#8217;t help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cherries!</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/05/13/cherries/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/05/13/cherries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 May 2004 16:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My cherry tree has, after a long hiatus, borne fruit. Three years I&#8217;ve waited for cherries, since the last crop of any significance. According to the University&#8217;s Cooperative Extension, a goldmine of botanical knowledge, it&#8217;s been a crummy period for the precious fruits until now.
But now I have CHERRIES, one of my very favorite foods, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Masochistic Tendencies</title>
		<link>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/05/05/masochistic-tendencies/</link>
		<comments>http://cubelodyte.com/2004/05/05/masochistic-tendencies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2004 17:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Cubelodyte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me well know that I enjoy good food, well-prepared. Those who know me even better know that I enjoy nasty, horrible food almost as much, though my intake of same has slowed appreciably, as my aging body begins its inevitable descent into decrepitude. Soon, I will subsist on nothing more than unflavored [...]]]></description>
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