Favorite Foods

When my brother David (the father in these pictures) was younger, he and Zivar, our sister (who has even less biographical material on the web than David — the best I can find is this snippet from her high school’s alumni page, and here’s a picture of her, third one down, in our back yard) were extremely nice to each other. Their resources, however were limited. David explains:

Zivar had been making me treats and snacks and stuff, so I wanted to
make a special snack for Zivar and me. A special snack That I knew
would be yummy. I stuck some olives (the green kind — not the black kind) onto some cheese and poured powdered
sugar over it. Because cheese is good, and olives are good, and
powdered sugar is good.

He was probably 5 or 6 years old. He found that olives and powdered sugar are best eaten (or fed to one’s sister) separately.

So today, I thought, “I like peppermint tea”, and “I like decaf coffee”, and “mint chocolate is pretty good, so what about mint coffee?” Well, I’m sure it tasted better than olives and powdered sugar, but the first sip was a bit of a shock. I don’t really know how to describe it. Sweetener helped, but I’m not sure whether I’d try it again.

However, David informs me:

I mix coffee and tea bags quite a bit. Flying J coffee is actually a
good quality coffee, but it’s so weak that it’s disgusting. So if you
put a teabag in it, it actually makes a decent flavor. It passes as a
drinkable flavor.

He even endorsed peppermint. Flying J: David is a truck driver, and Flying J is a chain of truck stops with amenities such as showers and hot coffee.

So finally, he asked,

Have you tried the Ramen noodles and coffee yet? Because I’m not
going to.

I haven’t. I had talked to David about it when someone left some old Ramen packets (someone was cleaning out their office) sitting in the coffee room at work. Without David’s help, I may never know how they taste together. It will have to wait for a future generation of experimenters.