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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.bizarre
Subject: Re: odd sign (?)
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 13:57:21 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 13:57:21 1985
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>>> This brings up something I've been meaning to post for awhile. Let's
>>> have a contest: (no prize, that wouldn't be bizarre) What's the most
>>> bizarre (not necessarily gross) thing you've ever eaten?

Well, I'm a self-taught cook, see, and I haven't always been what you would
call wealthy, so over the years, I've eaten some real dillies.  Now, dillies
by themselves aren't all that bad (they're better with a little butter, and
everything's better with blue vomit on it), but after so many USDA prime
contenders, it'd be hard to pick a winner, even if they did grow on trees.  
But one came up recently that really wasn't my fault, at least directly.
In a local supermarket I bought a large jar of Salsa Picante of an unknown
brand at what I first thought was really a bargain price.  Now I know better.
This stuff comes off as a thin tomato sauce, like the broth in cans of
stewed tomatoes, adroitly polluted with a conflagration of slivered half-raw
jalapen~os that would bring tears to the eyes of Pancho Villa.  Flippin'
delicious!  My first thought on tasting the stuff was, ``Gawd, this crap
needs something, desperately!''  So I dumped about half a jar of garlic
powder in it and stirred it up.  I can't say that it really improved the
stuff, but hell, why should I suffer alone?
-- 

    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
               {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!crandell