Midweek Randomness

I went grocery shopping the other day and picked up some rotisserie chicken and little corn tortillas for the sole purpose of making little chicken tacos. I get home and start flaming up the tortillas when I notice in large, red block letters on the back of the taco bag: "CORN TORTILLAS MAY BE USED IN PLACE OF BREAD AT MEALTIMES". And I thought to myself, "wow, someone actually has to be told that's what these round disc things are for."

Its like this one time I picked up a jar of peanuts. On the front it said very clearly "Peanuts". The jar was clear so you could even see the little peanuts inside. On the back nutrition label, it said "Ingredients: Peanuts, salt." Then in teeny, tiny writing below the ingredients, it finally let us in on a little secret: "Allergy warning: This product contains peanuts".

I thought to myself "That's a relief; here, if I had a peanut allergy, I never would have know that this jar of peanuts actually and truly contained these little legumes of anaphylactic death. I dodged a bullet."

Tomatoes, when refrigerated, lose their awesome flavor. But how do you save a tomato that you only ate part of? Sometimes I don't want a whole tomato, and I'll want some for later. But the fresher the tomato, the worse off it gets in the fridge. I guess I'll have to just make sure I eat the whole thing when I slice it. This guy I knew in college told me that he thought that tomatoes tasted like "old water". I could not understand his analogy as he lived in New Jersey with me, and NJ just flat-out has the best tomatoes. They are amazing and "old water" doesn't even come close. But maybe he never had a truly good tomato. I hope by now he has, and he didn't refrigerate it.

I was lied to tonight by the vegetable man at the farmer's market. He said the Mexican radishes were no more hot than the regular red globe radishes I so love to eat. Liar liar, my mouth on fire! I ate one and spat it out, it was so spicy. I gave the rest to Mario, who also had his sinuses cleared. I think they'll get passed onto his dad. Someone's gotta be able to stand those things.