{"id":96,"date":"2007-12-09T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2007-12-09T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T22:35:00","slug":"a-peel-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"A Peel-Off."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Man and I have diametrically opposed views on the design of potato-peelers.<\/p>\n

I favour an ergonomic model with a large and curved handle, lifetime guaranteed blade, and smooth, inwards-moving peel action. I pull my peeler towards me whilst holding the potato in the other hand, and voila; the potato is denuded and my arthritic wrists are in no pain. The Man on the other hand is left-handed and gifted with faultless bones. He favours a slim peeler, designed with no ergonomic consideration in mind and tailored to an outwards-moving, purposefully masculine peeling-action. He pushes his peeler away from him whilst holding the potato in the other hand, and voila; the potato is denuded through his efficient utensil-wielding skills.<\/p>\n

I hardly need to say that consequently we can neither of us bear – or use – the others’ peeler and both privately think our individual peeling style (and implement) is the superior one. Indeed, when I moved in, I naively announced that once he had tried my<\/span> peeler, he ‘would never again return to the Dark Side.’<\/p>\n

Thus today, when pondering whether or not we had time to prepare our fish pie before hurrying to the Cinema to see Stardust<\/a>, I challenged The Man to a peel-off. We took 3 potatoes of roughly equivalent size each, and rabidly set about peeling them faster than the other. I regret to say that in this contest The Man’s supreme competitiveness gave him the edge, and as in most games, he won. I was also irked to realise that my peeling style is not as tidy as his; observe the neat pile of peelings by his peeler as compared to the rather straggly heap beside mine.<\/p>\n

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Regardless of these trivialities, (his peelings being neater and his peeling speed marginally faster) I am not swayed in my position and shall continue to use and enjoy my<\/span> peeler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Man and I have diametrically opposed views on the design of potato-peelers. I favour an ergonomic model with a large and curved handle, lifetime guaranteed blade, and smooth, inwards-moving peel action. I pull my peeler towards me whilst holding the potato in the other hand, and voila; the potato is denuded and my arthritic […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pmise-1y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}