Monday, December 8, 2008

Little Monstrosities

Lest anyone think I'm getting soft in my middle age, I've come across a fair number of odd, hideous, or just plain scary things as well. Like...

The world's worst snack. Got these in the Star Alliance Lounge in the Shanghai Airport. They're dried plums, only they've been preserved using some sort of horrible salty process that makes them absolutely disgusting.










Purple broccoli. PURPLE BROCCOLI! It's just wrong, WRONG I TELL YOU! (Correction: Brian has reminded me that these vile veggies are actually cauliflower, not broccoli - which makes them far more evil, in his opinion.)










Come to think of it, the entire produce section in the San Ramon Safeway was pretty scary. Produce really shouldn't be so perfect and orderly.










Speaking of scary, Morty found it quite alarming when the guy from PG&E came to our house to light the pilot light in our heater and had to crawl under the house to do it. He was talking to us from underneath the grate, and the Mortster just about came unhinged.

5 comments:

Mr. Miro said...

I hope you'll share the dried plums when I come to visit!

Stephanie said...

They'll be utterly unchanged, probably for the next millennium.

Anonymous said...

No dried plums for me. Or purple broccoli. Blech.

That's some orderly produce there.

Julie said...

I could see having some fun with the purple cauliflower, but only if it didn't change color when cooked.

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