Welcome back my fabulous fridge fanatics to a new week and a new *exclusive!* look behind the doors of someone’s fridge! This time, your brave writer risked her stable mental condition and sense of personal hygiene for a peek behind UCR’s most infamous fridge-doors-of-mystery. I knew that the risk of leaving this experience as a different person was high, but I did it all for YOUR entertainment. Read and quiver, as we shall now dive into the eating habits of the one and only RASA Treasurer Daniël van Hemert! He who was previously named the Master of Coin, but as of now shall be called Master of Sauces.
Remember our last adventure? In my introduction to this series, I wondered out loud whether Daniel really only eats pizza and microwave lasagna. Well, now I know, and let me tell y’all; the answer is no, but the reality might even be worse. Daniël van Hemert is a Dutch, innocent-looking 5th semester student who resides in his dark man-cave on the first floor of Roggeveenhof, also known as Primus. As you can see in the picture; his fridge, like him, is just a plain, white object surrounded by dishes and trash. But we all know that it’s what inside that matters… really.
As I opened the door, Daniel was quick to note that its current contents were actually quite decent, and in order for me to remain an objective reporter, I will quickly sum them up for you so that you can form your own opinion about that statement. I saw sports drinks (3x), mushrooms, a hidden sack of pears (“I try to buy fruit!”), Remia curry sauce, Jumbo tomato ketchup, AH mayonnaise, more varieties of Remia, Calvé mustard sauce, sauce, and sauce. When confronted with the question how he would describe his eating pattern, he answered “irregular”, and I believe that these products embody that answer very well.
Daniel does groceries every day, in contrast to the people that can easily plan out a whole week of dinners, he is cursed with a complete lack of fantasy or self-knowledge about what he might want to eat, he is more of a “decide in the moment”-person.
But why all the sauces? That is, ladies and gentlemen, because Daniël van Hemert doesn’t cook. (Okay, pasta three times a week, but that doesn’t count.) Daniel fries. NO, he Air-Fries. Yes everyone, air frying is so much healthier! There is less fat involved, the air fryer is easy to clean, and most important of all there is a reduced release of stinky fry-odors. This article is in no way sponsored, but, as Daniel said it himself, “The airfryer is always the easy way out!”. Besides, our Treasurer doesn’t do snacking throughout the day. He doesn’t buy candy or other kinds of savory snacks, he eats breakfast (he has two kinds of bread toppings, which he is proud of), and he buys pears.
So, with a varying weekly menu of pizza, pasta, air-fryed goods and liters of curry, I present to you a hardworking young adult with a good heart, a sauce-fetish, and a need to be treated to a nice veggie-meal every now and then. Show him some love.
Tune in next time for another fridge you never knew you’d want to look inside of!
Gerjanne Hoek is a Linguistics, Politics and History major from Bunschoten-Spakenburg, The Netherlands.
