When I was a boy I’d make a double layer sandwich of cheese and cold meat and Dad would joke (and partially mean it) “oink, oink," apparently unaware a single sandwich wasn't enough to satisfy a hungry appetite!
Some years later I sang a song about taking a cookie out of a child’s hand - to a cousin in the family. The lyrics were alternates to a Toby Keith and Willie Nelson song that was popular at the time:
“I'm gonna take that cookie out of Sarah's hand
I'm gonna eat it all 'cause I'm a big man
Yeah, I’m gonna eat that whole damn cookie”
This was largely of an inside joke to myself about the amount of appetite it’d take to eat a whole 3 in. cookie.
Today a third installment of this trilogy played out in front of me when I was in the company lunch room. A coworker was heating up some water and opening two bags of ramen noodles. Surprised, another coworker said, “You must have a high metabolism.” Indeed, two packages of ramen noodles is an immense amount of food!
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