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hiddenmuse) wrote2004-06-29 01:10 pm
hiddenmuse) wrote2004-06-29 01:10 pm
Not for the squeamish
Since I do like to try and expand my culinary horizons from time to time (yes, believe it or not, Kellie...), when a co-worker offered me a lychee, I thought I'd give that a whirl.
Well, let me say that my retention level for the weirdest things is unbelievably high. Especially since as I was peeling into the lychee, all I could think of were two things: a Tony Kornheiser column I'd read in one of his books a couple of years ago, and my Anatomy & Physiology (A&P) class in college.
Sure, they sound wildly divergent, but, they do parallel. Here's how it works: The Tony Kornheiser column involved his talking about growing up in a Jewish household, and his family's tradition of going out for Chinese food every Sunday.
The particular Chinese restaurant they would go to served the usual fare we've come to expect, as well as dessert: "vanilla ice cream - with chunks of ice still in it, and lychees, which looked like eyeballs in a bowl".
As for my A&P class, well, since we were getting into the particulars about the body, one thing we did in Lab was dissect a cow eyeball. Really. So, peeling into the lychee, and having it squirt out a small bit of juice did remind me of the cow's eye leaking out its aqueous humour (the fluid within our eyeballs) onto the dissection tray. As for the smell and taste of the lychee, well, it did smell pretty decent and the taste wasn't too bad.
I just couldn't get past the whole "eyeball" thing. So, I think that I'll stick with lychee in my Aromacreme deodorant from Lush - it's nicer there. At least it's not presented in a squick-me-out context.
Well, let me say that my retention level for the weirdest things is unbelievably high. Especially since as I was peeling into the lychee, all I could think of were two things: a Tony Kornheiser column I'd read in one of his books a couple of years ago, and my Anatomy & Physiology (A&P) class in college.
Sure, they sound wildly divergent, but, they do parallel. Here's how it works: The Tony Kornheiser column involved his talking about growing up in a Jewish household, and his family's tradition of going out for Chinese food every Sunday.
The particular Chinese restaurant they would go to served the usual fare we've come to expect, as well as dessert: "vanilla ice cream - with chunks of ice still in it, and lychees, which looked like eyeballs in a bowl".
As for my A&P class, well, since we were getting into the particulars about the body, one thing we did in Lab was dissect a cow eyeball. Really. So, peeling into the lychee, and having it squirt out a small bit of juice did remind me of the cow's eye leaking out its aqueous humour (the fluid within our eyeballs) onto the dissection tray. As for the smell and taste of the lychee, well, it did smell pretty decent and the taste wasn't too bad.
I just couldn't get past the whole "eyeball" thing. So, I think that I'll stick with lychee in my Aromacreme deodorant from Lush - it's nicer there. At least it's not presented in a squick-me-out context.
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The whole lychee thing has my stomach in a bit of revolt though. Not to mention the cow eye. EW
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And I never did get to hear Tony Kornheiser's show, only read (and enjoyed) his books - but the books have always made me laugh. Probably because he writes in a style that's similar to Dave Barry.