Six Weird Things Iron Chef Edition

There's been a lot of people over the past few months who've done the themed blog post of six weird things about them. I've decided to do six weird things about me that involve food. Here we go.

1. My absolute favorite vegetable is the brussel sprout; love 'em!
2. For the longest time I hated beer and brats (this is only weird because I'm from WI, home of...well...beer and brats).
3. At a new restaurant I'll talk about the things I'm thinking about ordering almost ad nauseum. Often I end up ordering something completely different from what I was talking about and I end up disappointed with my dinner. Goat comes to mind. So does a deep-fried Scotch egg.
4. While I like to try new things (in fact I often order something strange [see #3 above]) there are a few things that I will always order when I see them on the menu: chicken parmigan at an Italian restaurant; General Tso's chicken at a Chinese restaurant; and potato skins. Man I love potato skins! While I don't always get chicken parm or General Tso's, I will ALWAYS order potato skins when they're on the menu.
5. I worked for Wendy's for about 9 years (mostly part-time). Not too weird, until you start to think about some numbers. Let's say I averaged about 800 hours a year (2,080 hours being full-time). So that's 7200 hours. Knowing that I worked lunch time in a mall where we'd do $800 hours (let's call that 160 hamburgers) and I also worked $50 hours late nights (or 10 hamburgers) so we'll say that I averaged 50 hamburgers an hour that I worked (assuming more busy times than not and picking an arbitrarily low number to reflect non-hamburger orders I filled). That means I made about 360,000 hamburgers while I worked at Wendy's. Yikes.
6. Growing up we always had a goose for Thanksgiving. Since it looked like the big bird (not Big Bird) that people were eating on television (I also thought all television was set in WI, but I blame HAPPY DAYS and LAVERNE & SHIRLEY for this) I assumed that everyone ate goose for Thanksgiving. I was much older than you'd think when I finally realized that my family was special.

Now it's your turn.

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