Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Who Wants Baby Corn?
I am now eating my salad from the salad bar at the grocery store. It is fabulous. The ingredients for my salad are thus:
Non-nutritive lettuce.
Non-non-fat ranch dressing. (Fully leaded for those confused by the double negative, like me.)
Hard boiled egg pieces.
Those chinese noodle-y things. I forget what they are called.
Sunflower seeds.
Pine nuts. (I think. They taste good anyway.)
Ham.
Turkey.
Bacon bits.
Shredded cheese.
Chick peas.
And then, in side compartments, I have 2 hard boiled eggs, cottage cheese, and four baby corns. (Four pieces of baby corn?)
I remember my first experience with baby corn quite clearly. It happened when I was in elementary school. I love my elementary school quirks. We had a Thanksgiving feast in class, and everyone was supposed to bring in a Thanksgiving dish. One kid brought in baby corn. I remember looking at it and falling in love with it. It was so cute! I also remember my initial confusion over how to eat the stuff. Once I figured that out, I had to get over the weird taste of it. Even though I didn't particularly enjoy the taste of it, I made up my mind to love it. Because it was so cute! And so, to this day, I eat baby corn every once in a while. And while I still don't particularly enjoy the taste, I eat it because it is so cute!
(And because it wards off scurvy.)
3 Comments:
don't worry...i figured the stage version of Rent must be better. I think part of the problem was the acting would be great on stage, but was just too much on the screen. Plus, I think the issues are out of date, which makes it a little obnoxious. Finally, I got really sick of the rocker guy's songs. But, that's not to say that the stage production isn't really great. Oh - also, what was with the cheesy blue screen backgrounds of sante fe????
that's funny, Don. My husband always makes fun of me about that. If I say something is cute he says, "Why? Because it's small?" And I say, "Yes." :o)
the other day, there were baby corns in my lean cuisine lunch (lemongrass chicken, which I highly recommend.) I thought of you, even though I technically don't even know you. Isn't that nice?
Also, I've noticed that you and I are both slackers when it comes to updating our blogs as of late. I guess that just means we are busy.
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