Welcome to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. Cheers to all of us thieves!
This week, our inspiration is Life of a Fool. This blogger maintains that this meme has “been seen everywhere.” The questions only require a simple, definitive answer, but if you’d like to elaborate, we’d like to hear what you have to say.
Which one? Sunday Stealing Makes You Choose
1. Pepsi or Coke?
Diet Cherry Pepsi. That full-sugar glass bottle of Coke that one used to only get near Mexico
2. Cappuccino or coffee?
I don’t drink coffee, and never did. There is something vaguely uncivilized about not drinking it; some people have tried to make me feel that. Someone makes a pot of coffee, and you don’t share. I probably mentioned my absolute refusal to make it. It was an office task; I made it once, it sucked, and I was off the hook.
Here’s a useless piece of information about cappuccino: “The name comes from the Capuchin friars, referring to the color of their habits, and in this context, referring to the color of the beverage when milk is added in a small portion to dark, brewed coffee (today mostly espresso).
Ice cream?
3. Chocolate or vanilla?
I’m assuming the question refers to ice cream, though it isn’t explicitly stated. I find that vanilla ice cream, as an accompaniment, is about perfect. It goes with chocolate cake, fruit pies, hot chocolate, and much more. A good chocolate ice cream needs to stand on its own, and some do.
I shared this before – it’s about racism and vanilla ice cream.
4. Hot tea or iced tea?
One of the first things I learned when I visited my parents and baby sister after they moved to the Southeast US was that there is tea and hot tea. Whereas, in the North, there’s iced tea and tea. What was the question again? Either one; it’s weather-dependent.
5. Dinner for two or a party?
It must be dinner for two, because I do it far more often. I like other people’s parties, though; I only throw one per year because it’s work.
I went back and read the watermelon/vanilla ice cream post. I’m so flabbergasted that I can’t even comment. You taught me a new fact about cappuccino. I’m not a coffee drinker either. Thinking about the word cappuccino made me think about the monkeys, not friars, so I googled “what monkey sounds like cappuccino” (so scientific!). Listen to this: “People often mix up “capuchin” and “cappuccino” because they both share the exact same root word. They are both named after the Capuchin friars because their colors—distinctive brown heads or hoods—resemble the friars’ hooded robes.”
I like Cherry Pepsi too…just regular.
I tried so hard to like coffee. My dad drank it and I wanted to be like him. He would let me try it in a spoon because it was so hot and I think he knew I would not drink it. I just couldn’t make myself like it. I can drink a frozen vanilla bean coffee…it tastes like a vanilla milkshake.
I agree with vanilla ice-cream…the toppings and as a side to dessert. So many things you can do with it.
Sweet tea is big in the south too. I love it. I only drink hot tea when I am sick for my throat. I do like it though.
I had to chuckle at the tea distinctions by location.
I did the same thing with making coffee for the office. It was what I was supposed to do but I made it so badly I was quickly excused from doing it. That was a very long time ago.