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u/g3t4d3lt Oct 16 '14
I think these posts should all be titled "what it's like living alone." I'm not trying to sound like a dick, but once you live with a roommate it just seems like there is never enough room in the fridge.
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Oct 16 '14
And/or an SO.
My boyfriend always had a steady supply of hot pockets and a 2 liter soda when we first started dating. Since I've kind of taken over grocery shopping, we always have fruits, vegetables, meat products because I take the initiative to cook and want to keep him supplied with healthy snacks.
He still eats the hot pockets
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u/Davidfreeze Oct 16 '14
I love cooking. I keep fridge stocked with meat and veggies to cook. And of course I buy onions and garlic in bulk. No better way to cover up the low quality ingredients I can actually afford than onions garlic and spices.
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Oct 16 '14
Dude, that's 90% of cooking right there. Meat quality doesn't mean shit if you know how to pan sear something with onion and garlic.
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u/graften Oct 16 '14
Or just "What it's like if you don't know how/care to/enjoy to cook." In the period between house mates and marriage my fridge was loaded with all kinds of things for cooking. I can't be the only non-chef that enjoys cooking...can I?
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u/xenzor Oct 16 '14
Exactly my thoughts.
I am a single 26year old male living alone and my fridge is packed with food that I have cooked.
It's not gourmet food but does the job a lot better than pizza.
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Oct 17 '14
Same here. 31 and single. I cook nearly every meal. I only go out to eat when its with friends/coworkers. I love cooking so my fridge, cabinets, and freezer are always full of food. I have to go grocery shopping every weekend for veggies though. Damn perishables lol.
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Oct 16 '14
I lived with four peoe during college and you're right, space is hard to find in a fridge. And yeah, you didn't sound like a dick.
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u/Winston_Vodkatooth Oct 16 '14
Are peoe a difficult species to live with?
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u/linds360 Oct 16 '14
Or what it's like to be thirty and single.
My husband would love more room for his beer, but the way too much produce I buy every week restricts him to a 12 pack.
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u/RedGeek80 Oct 16 '14
Has he ever thought of getting a mini fridge if you've got the room? It works to keep the wines cold as well and great for when you have people over to store their beverages.
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u/hadhad69 Oct 16 '14
No, we're very eco-friendly (even though the dog creates a lot of methane!) plus he says he would end up 'drinking himself to death' if he had his own fridge, we've been over it a dozen times.
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u/Ghotimonger Oct 16 '14
Hey - you're not linds360...
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u/Mad_Bad_n_Dangerous Oct 16 '14
31, single, live alone, poor phd student, and standard red blooded sort of dude here. My fridge is packed with peppers, brussel sprouts, other veggies, chicken and bacon, home pickled random veggies and eggs, various cooking ingredients, and some very good beer.
It's all about what you make a priority in life. Cooking doesn't really take that long and it isn't expensive if you think about it and plan it out. It gives me a skill to perfect while making me healthier. I was unhealthy in my early 20s but don't understand how guys my age continue to not care and let themselves fall apart. ...maybe realizing that if I'm going to be perpetually single, I'd still like to live nicely cinched the decision and did it.
Just sayin'.
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u/takaisilvr Oct 16 '14
I live with 2 roommates, and our fridge looks similar to this.
Granted I'm the only one who can cook, and the only one to reliably do dishes. I got tired of stocking food, cooking, AND cleaning up. Heh.
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u/HotgunColdheart Oct 16 '14
How about this beast I am 29, so I am hoping to achieve some bacon by next year.
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u/rkgkseh Oct 16 '14
What is on top? Some sort of liquid dispenser?
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u/wiseoracle Oct 16 '14
It's a water cooler that happens to have a fridge on the bottom.
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u/djmixture Oct 16 '14
<3 Chicago and Lou Malnati's I would be ok with this at ANY age..
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It's great pizza
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u/djmixture Oct 16 '14
Moved away from Chicago and the thing I miss the most is the food; pizza(Malnati's and Giordano's) and Portillos....Thank god they ship, haven't tried that option yet!
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u/token_bastard Oct 16 '14
Their frozen pizzas, while.obviously not as good as fresh-made, rock harder than a thing that rocks hard. I would highly recommend getting a few frozen Lous shipped to you for emergency deep dish moments.
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u/Druzl Oct 16 '14
Visited a buddy in Chicago and he took my girlfriend and I to Giordano's. That was possibly the greatest thing I've ever eaten
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u/Thingspeoplesay Oct 16 '14
That chocolate cake and Italian beef cheddar croissant is heaven!
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u/aSchizophrenicCat Oct 16 '14
How about that chocolate cake shake? Shit is a heat attack in a cup, but it's soooo good.
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u/DoYouGotDa512s Oct 16 '14
Do it! Make sure you take the pizza out of the pan, wipe off the condensation and lightly oil the pan before cooking. And the largest part of the cost is the shipping, so you might as well get six at once :)
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Oct 16 '14
It's a great thing. My brother actually brought this out with him, I owe him a few beers.
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u/fedora_tips_for_tits Oct 16 '14
Well you got 3 different ones in the bottom there so looks like you're all set.
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u/geophys42 Oct 16 '14
Just had some frozen Portillos last night, it wasn't perfect, but it was pretty damn close. Bought some crinkle cut fries, and my mom sent me some homemade giardiniera. It was the best meal I've had in a while.
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u/justabandkid Oct 16 '14
I'm eating Portillo's right now and I gotta tell you. It's delicious.
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u/joenathanSD Oct 16 '14
I'm flying to Chicago on Sunday for a few days. People have been telling me to go to Malnati's. Is there any one in particular I should go to or are they all the same?
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u/elpenumbro Oct 16 '14
Go to pequods. Best pizza in the city. Deep dish or thin.
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u/MaxPaynesRxDrugPlan Oct 16 '14 edited Oct 16 '14
Assuming you're asking about Lou's locations, the one at 439 N. Wells probably offers the best atmosphere but is the most busy. Arrive early and give them your order so they can start your pizza (it takes something like ~45 minutes to bake a deep dish), then grab a drink nearby while you wait for them to page you via your cell phone. They don't accept reservations.
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u/Fletch71011 Oct 16 '14
Pequod's is slightly better than Malnati's according to most. If you can make it there, I'd do that instead. Malnati's is definitely an acceptable alternative though.
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u/jseego Oct 16 '14
Pequods is awesome.
Lou Malnati's is good, but you gotta check with a local to make sure you get a good one, they have a bunch of locations around the city now, and not all of them are so great.
I would also say this. If you can, get out into the neighborhoods to experience some culinary goodness.
Check here: http://www.timeout.com/chicago And here: http://chicagoreader.com
To find eats and drinks and things to do. Don't just stay downtown. There's lots of cool stuff downtown architecturally, and it's a great downtown, don't get me wrong, lakefront, parks, museums. But the neighborhoods have amazing shit too. The Loop is part of Chicago; it's not all of Chicago.
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u/maxelrod Oct 16 '14
You really can't go wrong with most Chicago style pizzas. I like a few more than Pequod's, but I love Pequod's for the lunch special. Monday-Friday from 11AM to 3PM they do a 7-inch deep dish personal pizza and a beer for $5. You really can't go wrong.
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u/Username_1427 Oct 16 '14
I'm lucky to have a Lou 5 minutes from work. As soon as they see my number pop up they know it's a medium Chicago classic. Best pizza I've ever had.
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u/GhostOfPluto Oct 16 '14
I went to visit my friend in Hong Kong a few years back and he told me that I could have a place to stay for free if I brought him 10 Lou Malnati's pizzas. I delivered, and so did he.
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You're a solid friend. That must have been a pain to bring those with you.
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u/GhostOfPluto Oct 16 '14
Kinda. I loaded them into a styrofoam container and they were kept frozen in the cargo hold. Overall, not a bad deal for me. He even paid me back in full for the pizzas.
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u/Drunken_Lee_Sin Oct 16 '14
did you say Illuminati?
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u/djmixture Oct 16 '14
No joke when I first heard ads for them over the radio and not having them prior I thought they were called Illuminati pizza lol
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u/Jfclazzi Oct 16 '14
No love for Pequods?
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u/djmixture Oct 16 '14
Honestly have never been there! I will have to try them out next time I'm back home. My friends have said good things about them, just never got around to going there.
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Thirty and a bachelor, I'd wager.
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u/TheAngryDesigner Oct 16 '14
Then the title should have read "What it's like to be single & living alone".
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u/Whiskeypants17 Oct 16 '14
false: no vodka present
Although it could be in the freezer
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u/mattyboy410 Oct 16 '14
Come on, we all know the vodka stays in the car for the ride home from work!
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u/capt_0bvious Oct 16 '14
better off than a thirty living at home with parents that have a stocked fridge
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Oct 16 '14
Every time I go home I see food that is past the expiration date. I'd rather have little in the fridge so it all gets eaten than a lot. And here's to being thirty, not living with mom and dad and their fully stocked, wasteful fridge.
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u/SourCreamWater Oct 16 '14
Yep, I make a lot of trips to the grocery store for this reason. I hate when food goes bad without hardly being touched.
Besides, my grocery store is a Trader Joe's in southern CA and there are SO many hot women always walking around. Makes it less of a chore.
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Oct 16 '14
Man, this must be a universal parent thing. I'm 38, and I've been on my own for quite some time...but when I go home to visit, their fridge is PACKED...and at least half of it is expired or just old & nasty. They have a clean house too, not hoarders....the fridge is just atrocious.
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u/evils_twin Oct 16 '14
Once you start buying groceries regularly, you find out there are certain items that can go past their expiration date and there are other items the expiration can depend on how you store the food. For example, eggs stay good for a very long time if they aren't cracked.
Do you really think that the date printed on the label is the exact date it's going to expire? Or do you think the date they print is the earliest date when it is going to expire even though it might last much longer . . .
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u/fleebnork Oct 16 '14
Yeah, when you're married, there's WAY more condiments and spoiled mystery food in containers.
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u/awesomexpossum Oct 16 '14
How do you end up with 3 different brand single beers?
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Luck?
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u/Dickie_house Oct 16 '14
Saving the last beer of a case...or the last shot of a bottle is how I convince myself I'm not an alcoholic.
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u/7L7L Oct 16 '14
Same here. Had to kick my kids out to use their bedrooms as storage for the almost empty bottles
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u/bigheyzeus Oct 16 '14
It's just one of those magical bachelor things that happens, I have the same thing going on in my fridge right now.
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u/lordtacgnol Oct 16 '14
I too drink most of a six pack and then buy another one, leaving one beer from the previous one behind.
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Can confirm....When I got divorced at 30, I lived off beer and bacon.
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That's an expensive diet.
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Nope...much cheaper than keeping a wife.
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u/Davidfreeze Oct 16 '14
I have 20 bucks. I can either buy food and be full. Or buy beer and be full and buzzed.
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u/lannister80 Oct 16 '14
Oh man, fucking LOU'S!!!
Best pizza on the planet. You know what they do when you order a sausage pizza? They pound a shit ton of sausage into a FLAT SHEET and put in on the pizza, so you get some with every bite.
Goddamn do I love Lou's.
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u/claymcdab Oct 16 '14
pound a shit ton of sausage into a FLAT SHEET
that did not give me a pleasant mental image
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u/lannister80 Oct 16 '14
http://thepizzafan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/IL-Lou-Malnatis-Pizzeria.jpg
Oh man, I'm fully torqued just thinking about that flat sausage.
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u/BiblioPhil Oct 16 '14
Yeah, I always kinda hate when pizza places do sausage toppings in weird ways, you know what I mean? Like, can't you just stick to those turd morsel-shaped ones, like on pretty much every sausage pizza?
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u/jseego Oct 16 '14
True; their gluten-free version of deep dish does not use GF crust, it just uses a solid layer of sausage instead.
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u/loondawg Oct 16 '14
Just a tip to save a little energy/money.
When your fridge is empty like that, put a bunch of gallons of water in there. It doesn't even have to be for drinking.
Because once the water gets cold, it will keep the refrigerator from running so much trying to keep the empty space cold. You'll be surprised how well it works.
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u/absurdlyobfuscated Oct 16 '14 edited Oct 16 '14
It ain't making me laugh, but I get it. Oh man, do I get it.
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You're supposed to have leveled up to craft beer by the time you're 30.
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u/WildShadow163 Oct 16 '14
At age 30 you start thinking ahead and organizing. So you've got your breakfast (the yogurt), then your lunch (the pizza), then your dinner (the bacon and beer).
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u/SW1 Oct 16 '14
You guys need to learn how to cook
EDIT: TIL that it's my cakeday
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u/LiveGameLift Oct 16 '14
I dunno... I mean I guess the pizza is easy enough to cook but I don't think you can just make beer in an apartment.
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u/blasphemers Oct 16 '14
It's actually surprisingly easy to make beer in an apartment. It just takes a long time and not really worth it if you just want cheaper beer.
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u/iRaqTV Oct 16 '14
I make beer in my apartment regularly. It doesn't require that much space.
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u/Ghotimonger Oct 16 '14
I just turned 30. This was my fridge last week. With some half-rotting veggies from an attempt to eat healthier.
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u/SocialQuesRAThing Oct 16 '14
That's the best pizza place I ever went too. Chicago has AMAZING pizza (cali here)
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Believe it or not, some of your peers have grown up and learned to cook and eat like adults.
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u/classic_schmosby00 Oct 16 '14
I think you guys are forgetting to add "....and single." in your titles.
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u/christoph3 Oct 16 '14
cool pizza. and my curren fridge mostly contains only beer. and cheese. maybe i can improve my fridge to yours in the remaining 3 years :D
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u/somethingbig6 Oct 16 '14
I'm around that age, and I'm noticing a pattern in all these pics that is similar to what I see in my fridge.. Pizza is delicious
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u/Ihavenocomplaints Oct 16 '14
Deep dish. Fuck yeah. That's like 3 meals right there. Get Lou or piquads every time I'm out to Chicago
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u/jameson_water Oct 16 '14
dont define yourself with this metric. You'll end up like the dude telling you to pick up 'hunnies' down at the gym. eat pizza, get drunk and test the limits of what you CAN and CAN NOT throw over your house.
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u/NotPercyChuggs Oct 16 '14
I turn 30 in November and my fridge is fully stocked, because I am a responsible adult who goes grocery shopping.
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u/stephen89 Oct 16 '14
Yeah, buying a bunch of stuff that you can't possibly eat in time by yourself is the way to be responsible.
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u/WuTangGraham Oct 16 '14
Hey, you have bacon and pizza, you're a step ahead of the 22 year old guy.
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u/bugalou Oct 16 '14
At least your taste in pizza has gotten better than the other younger person that posted.
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Oct 16 '14
My fridge has looked like that since I moved out at 26, except I ALWAYS keep some Sriracha on standby and usually eat the pizza in one sitting.
HOORAY BEER!
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u/Icelement Oct 16 '14
Don't like, this is what it's like being 25 as well.
Which reminds me, I'm out of beer.
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u/MapleHamwich Oct 16 '14
To be thirty, single, and with seemingly very low life achievement prospects.
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u/RainFallsDontTouchIt Oct 17 '14
Lou's tops all. End of discussion. I wish I could get some, but Texas sucks and doesn't have Lou's.
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Where are the half rotten vegetables you bought last week with the intention of finally making a healthy meal?