Oddity of the day

[resonant]

Apparently a food processor, in French, is a "Robot Culinaire." (This from the box of my brand-new red! KitchenAid food processor, bought when I accidentally dropped my ancient Cuisinart on the floor and broke it.)

A Robot Culinaire sounds like it would do something much cooler than just slice, dice, and cut butter into flour for pie crust, doesn't it? Like it would make the full meal, serve it to you, clean up the kitchen afterwards, and maybe wear a little apron.

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[misspamela.livejournal.com]

That makes me happier than I can explain. :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It pleases me, too. I think I'd be thrilled about the food processor regardless, but I'm extra-thrilled that it's a robot culinaire.

[lilysaid.livejournal.com]

yes, and when you try to use it on a substance like pop tarts or velveeta cheese, it turns up its nose and refuses to work.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

We'll see this weekend whether it's willing to deal with graham crackers for crumb crust.

[thefourthvine.livejournal.com]

OMG I WANT A ROBOT CULINAIRE.

Except I am patiently waiting for the black one to come back into stock before I buy a new Cuisinart (mine is ancient and is starting to do really alarming things when we use it). Does this mean I will have an evil Robot Culinaire, the Darth Vader or Dalek of Robot Culinaires?

Oh, well. You got the RED one, so clearly your Robot Culinaire is going to be a sex beast.

Hmmm. And the white one would probably only let you make food that was really good for you.

Wow. This makes color choice complicated.

[cranberryink.livejournal.com]

I have a metallic chrome one. Now I am all nervous as to what that says about me!

[alliekatgal.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I have a shiny black one! It calls out to you to stroke it, and it makes incredibly evil sugar cookie dough.

[fullygoldy.livejournal.com]

Mine will be blue when I finally break down and get it already!

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

I can totally confirm that the white Robot Culinaire only lets you make healthy food. It lives to grate veggies and make huge low-fat batches of pesto. Now, the white mixer on the other hand whispers things like "add more cream," and "you haven't made cookies in so long".

I shoulda bought the blue one. I betcha it's much more easygoing.

[fullygoldy.livejournal.com]

Well, we got a killer deal on the 6-qt (delivered today), and apparently it's whispering "bread dough, bread dough..." to the DH, so I'm not so sure that qualifies as "easygoing." ::g:: (this is what I was refering to above, spaz that I am some days)

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

Also? It should have a mustache.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Totally it should have a mustache. I should be able to say, "An omelet, Francois, with mushrooms and Gruyere," and it should say, "Very good, madam, and perhaps a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice?"

And it should pronounce 'orange' like 'o-RAHNJ.'

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

The only bad thing is that Francois sometimes gets a huffy when you make too much chocolate mousse or cookie dough, etc. It doesn't say anything, but the tongue-clucking is audible.

[barely-bean.livejournal.com]

A Robot Culinaire sounds like it would do something much cooler than just slice, dice, and cut butter into flour for pie crust, doesn't it? Like it would make the full meal, serve it to you, clean up the kitchen afterwards, and maybe wear a little apron.

I'm fairly sure *this* is how the Cylons started out...

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

ROFL!!!! "Last time anyone saw a Cylon they looked more like walking chrome Kitchen Aids!"

[sesshiyuki.livejournal.com]

How fun. I can't decide whether this means your robot culinaire is ferrari among the food processors or Rosie from that old cartoon, The Jetsons.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'd settle for Rosie! I mean, it's the twenty-first century and I'm still cooking my own meals -- how can this be?

[mhw.livejournal.com]

Heh. As my French teacher told us, "If you have to say something bad, it always sounds so much more gracious in French."

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Hey, excuse me. I picked up Suil a Gra from you a while back, and I love it. Would you mind if I re-shared it in a locked post? And, if that turns out to be okay, may I say who I got it from, or would you prefer not? Thanks!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Both are fine with me!

This is probably a sign of profound moral decay, but I don't feel at all bad about music sharing, especially if the artist in question is obscure -- I paid real money for two Anita Best CDs that I would not have bought if someone hadn't shared her "She's Like the Swallow" with me.

[joandarck.livejournal.com]

Thanks! (Hm, I guess I'm uncomfortable about large-scale sharing of music people would otherwise have bought, but, yeah, this kind of thing, no guilt -- I don't see the difference between this and making a mix tape for a friend. Or lots of friends.)

[ecaterin.livejournal.com]

Oh no! Dropping and breaking your Kitchen Aid must have been just awful! All praise the mighty Kitchen Aid, which can just about serve you your dinner & do the dishes :D

Kitchen Aid is the only expensive bit of kitchen equipment every kitchen MUST have!

Now I want a red one :D Those of you who don't have one, refurbs are very inexpensive :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Actually it was kind of a relief. My parents bought me that old Cuisinart for $15 at an estate sale in about 1990, so it had more than paid for itself over the years. But it wouldn't pulse, and I was growing to detest washing the 487 parts of the feeder tube every time I washed it.

The new Kitchenaid has only one part to the feeder tube, but the downside of this is that the feeder tube has to be too small for me to put me hand through it and slice up your fingers by mistake -- and I have the classic Pringles-can hands, too, so that's quite small. Two carrots at a time small.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Random OT response: I re-read Transfigurations this morning and god, how are you so awesome? I love that fic and you forever for having generated it. I may have to make a post about this at some point -- after I've decorated the Christmas tree, bought the remaining last-minute presents, baked bikkies with t'son, rung up friends to keep t'sons amused over the holidays, marked 48 essays, and otherwise enjoyed The Season. But! That fic! Maybe you are haunted by it, I don't know, but I've read it so often now I found myself mouthing along some of the lines silently in my head as I was reading them and being overawed yet again by the sheer swooonsomeness of it, and how it has such a logical building-up structure as well.

In a way, I owe you my Draco. Because my Draco is the opposite to Your Draco, and I couldn't have come up with my Draco if it hadn't been for your utterly delicious Your Draco.

Also, hey: did you ever publish 'Exog'?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

You're so sweet! I'm kind of relieved to know that it stands up to repeated readings.

And, alas, no bites on Exog yet. It's a terribly awkward length, much too long for the short story markets but much too short to be a novel or even a novella. And that's even before you take on the problem of explicit cross-species sex.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Hey, every so often I think about Exog, and the urge to write to you and say "I really want to reread this. I know you're holding out for publication, but what if I just PayPal you micropayment-style in return for an emailed copy I promise not to share?" But then I can't figure out how to phrase the sentiment without sounding weird and a little creepy, so I let it go. But I seem to have already typed this comment! So here goes?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks! I'm so happy you remember the story! I'm always happy to e-mail it out to anyone who asks; I just don't want to do anything that could be considered "publishing." If you'll send me your e-mail address, though, I'll e it to you.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_swallow/]

Oh, how exciting! My email address is lsmith4 (at!) swarthmore.edu. Thank you very much.