Ramekins Allow Us To Believe We Are Not Eating Out of a Mug
Let Us Now Praise Famous Miniature Bowls For Fancier Eating
If you chill or microwave goo-based food in a coffee mug, you are legally required to eat it by yourself in a bathrobe or pajamas, ideally in bed, but on a couch or over the sink is also acceptable. For some this is the height of luxury and comfort, but for others it carries all kinds of weird shame and stigma due to cultural baggage about things like adulthood, hygiene and health, family and marital status, body image, education, class, and other minor trifles of modern life.
But don’t worry. If you’re unable to simply “not have internalized any nonsense along the way”, just make exactly the same pudding, scrambled egg, cookie, or whatever in a mug without a handle, especially one that comes in a “classic color” (anything Le Creuset carries standard) or features a gentle scalloping or variegated texture on the outside.
Voilà! Now you’re having gourmet cuisine out of a ramekin. In fact, invoke as much French stuff as you can like you are appealing to a pantheon of gods. Just call your semi-solid cup-o-strudels a souffle or quiche or mousse despite the fact that these are specific sorts of dishes with criteria that define them.
Who cares! You’re fancy now, you with your ramekin, and you are completely alone so there is no one around to stop you or correct you.
That’s all for now.
Love,
Julian