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Glossary of Cooking and
Dining Terms
(For college students)
1. Casserole - The contents of a three-week-old Tupperware container:
half pasta and half Uncle Ben's rice.
2. Breakfast - Cereal with milk that expired two days ago (after a good sniffing, of course).
3. Three-course meal - Top Ramen, microwave corn dogs and the remaining crumbs in a Doritos bag found between the cushions of the couch.
4. Healthy - Using half a tablespoon less butter in the Macaroni and Cheese. A veggie deluxe pizza also qualifies.
5. Fine Dining - Getting your Big Mac meal Super-sized.
6. Au Jus - Accidentally spilling your Pale Ale on your dinner.
7. A la Carte - French for eating food in Safeway before you get to the checkout counter.
8. Sautéed - Synonymous with burned.
9. Sizzle - Also synonymous with burn.
10. Midnight snack - Stopping by Scrappy Dog after last call.
11. Frappe - Another French term for a thoroughly destroyed attempt at cooking enchiladas.
12. Appetizer - An ice-cold beer, of course.
13. Dessert - Dislodging a nice morsel of this afternoon's deli sandwich from your teeth.
14. Ethnic food - Food traditionally served in foreign countries. For example, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.
15. Balanced diet - The rationale that one banana will negate a semesters-worth of eating microwave burritos.
16. Four food groups - These are the basic daily intake necessary for students to get through college. They are: three servings of vending machine food (anything will do), two servings of deep-fried chicken, a spoonful of peanut butter and eight to ten servings of Budweiser.
17. Green vegetables - This is another phrase for moldy French fries.
18. Tupperware - A pot of fettuccine Alfredo with a fork sticking out and a plate placed on top.
19. Romantic dinner - This is when you invite your significant other over for popcorn and to watch "The Wedding Singer."
20. Hearty
meal - When you actually feel your arteries being clogged by
39-cent-hamburger Sundays at McDonald's.
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