[rriinngg]
"It's a great day at Two Peas in a QOD, this is T Pea! How can I help you?"
Silence.
"Hello?"
"Ms. Pea, I have your family."
"Excuse me?"
"I have your family. If you want to see them again, you need to come to the corner of Lincolnway and Washington immediately."
[Click.]
Lincolnway and Washington? What's at the corner of Lincolnway and Washington? Did Gil kidnap my family?
I race out of my office, fly through town and come to a screeching halt in front of the court house. As I run to the corner, I see my husband and two children gagged and tied up. Behind the hot dog cart. I start to run toward them when suddenly, a masked man steps out and stands between us. He lifts the lid of the cart. And starts to prepare a hot dog -- loaded with ketchup and mustard. He hands it to me.
"If you want to save your family, you must eat this."
I gulp. I look at him, then look at my family. Their eyes are pleading, "Eat the hot dog... eat the hot dog..."
Finally, I can't take it anymore.
I blow them kisses through my tears as I hop in my car and drive back to work.
What food disgusts you so much that you wouldn't even eat it to save the ones you love the most in the entire world? (This can't be something that everyone would traditionally agree is gross -- disgusting combinations like sardines and ice cream or whatever. It needs to be something that is accepted in the general population as a "normal" food but that literally turns your stomach to think about eating it.)
Thursday, December 6, 2007
How do I love thee...?
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I'm prepared for this answer b/c T-Pea and I were discussing this over lunch today. So, I would have to say, Cheddar Cheese Popcorn. I can't stand to even smell the stuff. I had a bad experience with it as a child. I had ate a bunch of it and then that evening, I came down with the stomach flu and well, you can imagine what happened then (not as tasty coming back up). I haven't had it since.
Macaroni and Cheese. The Kraft kind, the Velveeta kind, the homemade really cheesy kind. Ugh, just the thought makes me gag!
The other thing I will not eat under any circumstances - Lima Beans. My Mom loves them and she made us eat them almost daily as children. I can still taste them as I write this...all lima beany, with that horrible texture....I am shuddering.
Finally - hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls, a Girl Scout fave. On one of our campouts we cooked these babies over a fire on a stick. The crescent roll didn't cook all the way, the hot dog was still cold in the middle, and then I ended up getting a stomach bug (probably from too many smores, but those are still pretty good!).
I don't instantly gag anymore, but I used to absolutely lose it whenever I was asked to eat scrambled eggs. When I was working at the hospital, I had an extremely negative experience with a patient and some scrambled eggs, and I will leave it at that. Trust me, you don't want to know.
I can't stand shredded lettuce, like you get on sandwiches at Subway. Absolutely hate it. Especially if it's drowning in a globby pool of mayonnaise. Ick. I don't like lettuce under normally circumstances (weird, I know), but the thought of that gooey, mushy mess really does me in.
Peanut brittle.
Let's just say I overindulged on this as a kid one night, enough to last me my lifetime. And, so far, my body hasn't yet forgiven me for it.
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