"Mr. Opus McDopus" wrote in message
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"Tom Nakashima" wrote in message
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The first time I tasted wasabi, I thought it was avocado and plopped a big
glob in my mouth...I swear I saw my nostrils without looking in the
mirror.
-tom

I did the same at a pot-luck dinner, on campus, several years ago. I
thought, what with the Mexican foods in the same area, that the bright
green stuff must be a guacamole dip...................It sure as HELL
liked to have choked me to death, and don't try to drown it with water!


I once provided a cross-country ride to a college buddy's girlfriend (no,
nothing happened). She was quite, shall we say, innocent and unknowledgable
of the wasted ways of american youth. She had never done any drugs, never
been drunk, never had any sort of out-of-your-head experience. I'm not sure
she ever even had been dizzy.

We ate at a chinese restaurant somewhere in the midwest (now, thats a
statement...) and she had also never even tasted hot Chinese mustard. I
mentioned to her, as she dipped an eggroll deeply into some mustard, to be
sure to breathe through her mouth as she chewed. She smiled and took a bite.
Her face slowly went flat, her eyes slowly glazed over and she sort of
'drifted off' for a few seconds. Then she snapped back into focus, and with
an startled and wide-eyed expression proclaimed; "My GOD! I thought I DIED!
I really thought I just DIED!"

--riverman