Chinese TV Dinners

I'm not sure how long my favorite supermarket has carried them, but I recently discovered Tai Pei frozen dinners. My favorites are Beef & Broccoli, Pepper Beef, and the Combination and Chicken Fried Rice varieties.  I've also had their egg rolls, but there are only three small ones in a box.

TV dinners sure have come a long way, especially Chinese food. I wouldn't have bought these, thinking of bad experiences from years ago, but Tai Pei was on sale, 2/$4 and I bought just one, thinking I wouldn't be losing much by trying it.  I've really been craving Chinese food, particularly rice...and that's one of the things that really raises my blood sugar. -sigh-

So, I put it in my shopping cart and brought it home, popped it in the microwave and less than ten minutes later (cook and resting time), I was munching down on some pretty darn good Chinese food.  It was just enough to satisfy me and not so much I went into a carbohydrate near-coma.

Plus, I wasn't hungry again 30 minutes later!

I wholeheartedly endorse this product!

TV Dinners - ZZ Top

The TV Dinner Test

You Are Sweet

You are an ambitious person, but you temper your ambition with compassion and cooperation. You would like to be successful, and you'd also like to help others as much as you can on the way up. You seek balance in your life. You know you have a dominant personality, and you avoid coming on too strong. You are more sensitive than you seem. You take criticism personally, and you are easily hurt.

The TV Dinner Test

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Not sure this fits me, but the thumbnails were so small on the selection page, I couldn't tell what was what. I'm still not sure what this is, but I thought it was chicken nuggets and rice w/ bits of carrot...not a bad meal, IMHO.  The image info says it's sweet and sour chicken, so that's OK by me. (I'm sweet sometimes, sour others and chicken all the time) Most of the rest, even though I couldn't tell what they were by the image, sounded good by their info.

The one dinner I didn't consider was the Mexican food one;  I like Mexican food just fine, but I never had a Mexican TV dinner that was any good.  For one thing, they don't evenly heat in the microwave, not even with a rotating turntable - the rice or beans will be scalding hot and burnt while the burrito is still frozen in the middle. 

Out of this World Error

Not a 404 page, but one of the better ones I've seen lately.  (and I've been getting a lot of them lately) This one was on Livestream for the Grit chick cam, but when I tried again later, I got the link I intended to visit.

The cool thing about this one was it was interactive; move the cursor and the planet and cloud moved, too.

Leery of Leaning

The exact number isn't known, but it's believed that around 250 people have died after falling from the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Chattanooga Choo Choo

Today in history: Glenn Miller recorded "Chattanooga Choo Choo", 1941.

Dorothy Dandridge / Nicholas Brothers