The Question of Oil and Vinegar - To Be Continued
Take olive oil and vinegar, the two main ingredients in this relationship salad dressing. Oil is attracted to vinegar because she is spicy and daring; a little nutty, a little tangy, a little unpredictable. Vinegar is attracted to oil because he’s suave and even-tempered; reasonable, reliable and loyal. They make each other laugh. They make each other happy.
Oil and vinegar can spend hours, days, even months together in the same jar, frolicking and boozing, laughing and dancing, kissing and sleeping, but at the end of the day, they don’t [yet] cohabitate. As the boisterous entertainment and infatuation settles, their weighted masses bifurcate; their needs are divergent. At which point they realize they’re not ‘really’ a salad dressing, but just the main ingredients feigning.
What happens now is up to the oil and the vinegar...
Oil and vinegar can spend hours, days, even months together in the same jar, frolicking and boozing, laughing and dancing, kissing and sleeping, but at the end of the day, they don’t [yet] cohabitate. As the boisterous entertainment and infatuation settles, their weighted masses bifurcate; their needs are divergent. At which point they realize they’re not ‘really’ a salad dressing, but just the main ingredients feigning.
What happens now is up to the oil and the vinegar...
posted by DC Cookie @ 2:16 PM
19 Comments:
At April 28, 2006 3:12 PM,
I-66 said…
Rut roh...
please excuse your outclick to "http://www.dictionary.com"... that was probably me for "bifurcate"
At April 28, 2006 3:15 PM,
DC Cookie said…
haha - my college sweetie used the word phrase "bifurcated stance" in a snail-mail letter he sent me one summer when we were apart. It's stuck with me ever since. Which isn't to say I necessarily used it correctly here. I just...like that word. A lot.
At April 28, 2006 3:21 PM,
Anonymous said…
I-66 is a moron.
At April 28, 2006 3:23 PM,
Phil said…
Gotta shake the jar up.
At April 28, 2006 3:24 PM,
I-66 said…
...and you are a blunderbuss
At April 28, 2006 3:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
Just clicked over to I-66 blog and retract my moron statement.
At April 28, 2006 3:25 PM,
DC Cookie said…
We are obfuscating the real message here...
:-)
I heart you guys!
At April 28, 2006 3:28 PM,
JordanBaker said…
Damn olive oil, so smooth and enticing. . .
. . .I was going to make a semi-profound analogy about how they can exist together only in the moments before they're consumed, but my allergy medication is seriously interfering w/ my ability to be semi-profound. And probably my spelling/typing skills.
At April 28, 2006 4:05 PM,
Washington Cube said…
I agree with Phil. Keep things shaken up so they stay blended and don't settle apart.
At April 28, 2006 4:08 PM,
M- Filer said…
Oh.....how clever.
At April 28, 2006 4:11 PM,
Barbara said…
As long as the oil and the vinegar are in the same bottle, there is still a chance that they will shake it up together -- the un-bifurcated mixture being better than either by itself. Pairs of people are so like that also...
At April 28, 2006 6:20 PM,
Anonymous said…
Meh, I prefer French dressing.
Useless legal jargon tidbit of the day:
Complex civil trials are sometimes bifurcated, e.g., the liability phase and the damages phase are separated into two trials, ostensibly to simplify the issues for the jury and not keep them as long.
Okay, leaving for cville now.
At April 29, 2006 5:32 AM,
Drunken Chud said…
ahhh yes, however, were to find a way in which you could either combine the oil and vinegar molecules into a tasty oilyvinegeary concoction, and/or lower the specific density of the oil/raise the specific density of the vinegar you could create a homogeneous mixture that would in fact be beneficial to both parties. bifurcation be damned.
At April 29, 2006 1:59 PM,
tommy said…
Deep stuff girl:-)
At April 30, 2006 11:28 AM,
Anonymous said…
I prefer Vingear with Sea Salt on my potato chips, and Olive Oil with Rosemary for my fries.... and they all live happily in my stomach.
At May 01, 2006 10:21 AM,
cs said…
I was going to talk about shaking things up, but Phil beat me to it.
At May 01, 2006 8:20 PM,
VP of Dior said…
could the salad dressing be infused with some chili? or garlic? mmmm i'm hungry now.....
At May 01, 2006 9:16 PM,
Anonymous said…
Holy gauntlet throwing, Batman - do you suppose Charming Fellow is listening?
At May 02, 2006 3:47 AM,
Anonymous said…
Perhaps they remain in separate bottles until they are needed to be combined in a salad. The salad is the deal here, the object. The essential nature of the project is that once they come together for the salad, their needs will coincide. Someone has to step up and think; 'You know, we need to make a salad together'. That's my take on the issue. You don't know until you try, and you'll never quite know until both bottles have been committed into the salad. Cheers & Good Luck! 'VJ'
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