In which she recommends chicken drumsticks baked in bacon

[zeborah]

Boots is unhappy at not being able to take advantage of my recommendation!

In other news, spoilers for season 6 episode 2 of House: So, is it really legal in the USA for someone to fire their employee on the grounds that said employee is their girlfriend? Because in New Zealand you have to be quite a lot more subtle to get away with that!

(By "subtle" I mean, for example: don't fire her. Even better: don't become her boss in the first place. None of this "But we're both adults, right?" nonsense. Turn on the news, have you seen the kind of things adults do to each other? I mean, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn were both adults and look what happened when *they* mixed business and pleasure! Really I think you'd be better off with a child as your boss. But not as your boyfriend, because that'd be icky and wrong.)

This is even aside from the dubious logic involved in "If we continue both working and sleeping together it'll ruin our relationship and I need your soothing sexual reminiscences too much to risk that. So you're fired! Because me firing you in order to satisfy my needs without regards for yours won't affect our relationship in the slightest!"

But Foreman has never seemed particularly sensible in the relationship department, so mostly I'm curious about the legalities.

I note with interest that the episode acknowledges the fact that someone can be in a het relationship but still be bisexual. Okay, they acknowledge it in rather offensive ways, but, um. It's something?

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[pariyal.livejournal.com]

I note with interest that the episode acknowledges the fact that someone can be in a het relationship but still be bisexual.

If I had a euro (or 2 NZ dollars) for every time someone has asked me whether, being bisexual and all, I didn't want a woman as well, I'd be able to buy a new swimsuit. Or two.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

So you wrap the bacon around the drumstick? Chicken skin on or off?

[zeborah]

I didn't think about the chicken skin, these were just cheap drumsticks from the grocery store via my freezer (but defrosted before I did this). Um. I think the skin was still on. Yeah, I just wrapped the bacon around in as tidy a shape as I could manage, then put in a small roasting dish, covered in aluminium foil, and baked.

If you want to get fancy, you should be able to add cheese and/or pineapple between chicken and bacon, but it didn't occur to me to try that early enough.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I don't buy bacon often, but I could freeze it in a couple of slices each.