Lazy

Laziness is:

1. When eating fish, I pick out fish bones by only using my mouth. I refuse to pick out anything by hand because it is slower. Or maybe this is pure greed. (I only ever use my hands and go through the fish with a fine tooth comb when preparing fish for my kids, and possible for an aged husband in future)

2. When I eat oranges, grapefruit and grapes with the seed in and swallow the seeds because I can't be bothered to fish them out of my mouth.

3. When fish bones are small and soft enough to be swallowed with little hazard, I swallow them.

4. Eating prawn with their shells on because again, I cannot be bothered to remove the shells with cutlery or hands before shoving them into my mouth.

5. Swallowing prawn shells because I don't bother spitting them out. I spit out the tail la, because while I'm lazy, I'm not foolhardy. Unless it's fried prawns and the tails are small and crunchy enough for me to chew to bits.

6. When squeezing lime juice onto my mee goreng / mee siam / whatever I might be eating, I don't bother to use a fork to sieve out the seeds. The seeds fall hatter scatter all over my food and no, I don't pick them out. I start mixing them all in. Then when I start eating, I no longer notice the seeds. I swallow all!

7. Always eating fruits like apples and pears with their skin on because again, I cannot be bothered with peeling. My mom-in-law asked me why i don't peel my apples. I didn't know how to answer her, but was thinking why in the world would someone remove the skin when 1)it's fully edible (I do make sure I wash it well to remove whatever pesticides or shit that might be on it), 2)in the time you take to peel the fruit, I would have finished my apple, 3)it contains vitamins and fibre as well. Oranges, I get asked by Vader many times, why I don't 'neaten' the orange before eating, as in peel off some or most the white fiberish stuff (what's it called again? Pith?) on the flesh. I don't know, never occurred to me. If I could eat the orange with the skin on, I would.

But you know what overrides all this laziness? When I prepare fish or fruit for my kids and I remove all the skin and bones and even extract the orange pulp for them to eat. Or when I fry prawns for Vader and I have to stand at the sink shelling and deveining a whole bloody pound of prawns until my fingers are bleeding. And no, I won't accept the peeled ones because I think they are less fresh somehow.

I'd like to say I do this out of love. But I think it might actually be out of fear. Fear that one day my damned laziness might get the better of me and affect my loved ones. Fear that if they inherited my laziness (wrt food that is), they might refrain from trying food that is so good for them.

Oh, I absolutely adore soft shell crabs by the way! Aha!