We had a “Sunny Day Keg Fund” where I went to college, since discontinued, that was paid for from student general fees. I went to school in the Pacific Northwest and sunny days could be few and far between. So when it was a sunny day students would by a keg from the fund and put it out on the front lawn. Those were the days.
No, but we did order in pizza quite a bit when I was living in the dorms at college. It was always a late night thing, a few of us would go in on a pizza. It wasn’t for lunch or dinner, it was always in addition to those meals. No wonder college kids gain weight.
@livelaughlove21 Emergency fund is just an expression for setting money aside.
@livelaughlove21 Me either, but it doesn’t seem odd to me. In college people would call it, “beer money” or “bar money.” Money for pizza doesn’t surprise me. I don’t think that way, I just have money or I don’t, but a lot of people have their rainy day funds for various things.
@JLeslie The odd part is calling it an “emergency.” None of the things OP listed sound like a pizza emergency to me. Having money set aside to order pizza when you don’t feel like cooking while you’re in college isn’t weird – calling not wanting to or having time too cook an “emergency” is the weird part.
I can just imagine OP saying, “Oh no, this is an emergency. We need pizza, STAT!”
He isn’t saying it is a real emergency, he is just calling it an “emergency fund.” The word emergency is used lightly. It’s like when I say someone is torturing me, they aren’t actually torturing me, just making me a little miserable.
I get what @JLeslie is saying: there are pizza “emergencies.” Pizza and maybe Jimmy John’s are the only places open late here that deliver. Last night, I had one of these emergencies (it was late and I was too lazy to cook! Help!) Luckily, I had money for pizza, so I ordered it. I don’t keep a separate stash of cash just for circumstances such as these, however, but this is neither the first nor the second time this has happened to me.
@dxs Okay, let me put it this way and hopefully end it: In my opinion, it’s still odd to call that an “emergency.” I definitely get the meaning behind it, but being too lazy to cook isn’t an emergency – it’s just something that happened, so you solved a very minor problem by ordering a pizza. You don’t have to find it odd just because I do, but I’m still going to find it odd no matter which non-emergency situation you can think of to call an emergency.
@livelaughlove21 Understood. And I have my opinions, too, so why are you telling me this? I addressed @JLeslie in response to my earlier post about emergencies, not the dialogue between you two. Of course it’s hyperbolic. Did you seriously think I needed a pizza immediately or else? That’s why I put it in quotations in my second response. I never said anything was odd.
@lillycoyote It is in the link I put up… it is just the premium cut. I would get my meat cutters certificate if I could take this home with me after work.
I’ve just never heard the term. I’m a T-Bone or Porterhouse girl myself. And the link you put up really just has a picture of the steak, unless I’m missing something.
See if you can find the “presidential T-bone” On Google… I think it is from the Cattleman’s grill in Texas… Or I could just buy a AAA roast from the supermarket and cook it myself the way I like it. Eating the outside as it cooks…. and digging into perfectly cooked meat.