[CH] Found Habs at a great price, but.....
Ron M (swamp@netten.net)
Thu, 19 Feb 1998 22:40:11 -0600
I stopped by a store where my wife had bought some habs. She bought them
for me of course, but it's just not the same as doing it yourself. I
stopped in about 5 days or so after she did, and a few of the Habs were
getting spots or were going soft. I looked up the asst. produce man and
made him an offer of $1.50/lb. for all of them( they were marked at
2.99) , but he wouldn't go for it. He did however say that I could have
a bag full for $1. What a deal! I must have put about 2 1/2 lbs. in
there.
I brought them home and almost all were in good to great shape, so I
prepared them for the dehydrator. After drying, I got the "great" idea
of using our little food processor to grind them. It worked great, but a
fine mist of hab powder was in the kitchen and I sneezed a little and my
wife and kids were making jokes about toxic fumes. Well, after I
finished and was cleaning up, my wife came into the kitchen ,and as she
does sometimes, grabbed a paper towel to blow her nose. A used one! As
she was putting it to her face, I yelled" DON"T use that!" Too late. She
goes to the sink to put water in her eye and I told her that'd only make
it worse. I grabbed the 2% milk( highest fat content milk we have in the
house )and we ran to the bathroom. I poured the milk across her eye and
she said that she never would have thought of that, but it did the
trick.
My wife has finally gone to bed, and says that when the people at work
ask her what's wrong with her eye, she's going to tell them I did it(
and possible not mention the powder). Oh well, just goes to show that
some people need to learn proper reverence for the powers of El Grande!
I think one person just did.
--
Ron Marsh
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), "The Devil's Dictionary", 1911:
UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for
persons of another faith.