Like everyone else in my office, probably 80% of my lunches are those little microwavable frozen dinners. I stick with Stoeffer's and Zatarain's; other people are devoted to Budget Gourmet or Healthy Choice or Lean Cuisine or whatever. One guy I work with eats nothing but Bird's Eye frozen vegetables in sauce, every single day.
After years of eating these things, they've become routine - so much that Mrs Cleek and I just call them "frozens" - "Don't forget to buy some more frozens!", "Had another stupid frozen for lunch", "So sick of frozens", "Which horrible frozen should I have today?" etc.. They're so routine and boring to me that it's hard to believe everyone doesn't feel this way. Well, Defective yeti finds that this lack of enthusiasm for the frozen lunch in it's black plastic tray isn't universal.
Huh… I could probably count the total number of frozen dinners i’ve eaten on the fingers of one hand, and still have a finger or two free to scrape the cola-soaked Pop-Tarts and vending machine boiled eggs off my teeth.
Similar to truck-stop burritos, they fall into that category of foods that go beyond merely “bad” and into that dark group of foods that bring a look of worried disgust to my face at the very mention.
But then again, i like hospital food, so what can i say?
Didn’t know Zatarains made ‘frozens’. Sure do like their boxed rice dishes. Stouffers and Marie Callendar’s are plenty OK once in a while.
oh yeah they make a half-dozen or so different frozen rice things. good stuff.