November 21, 2008
Tahini
My blog looks different! different, and terrible! and has a different name! And my old tagline is almost seasonal again! But it's the same old broken blog underneath. In the meantime, here is a post.
The item that brought me back to the ol' blog, after nearly a year, is this.
This grocery list begins with tahini...tahini. Everyone assumes that just because vegetarians don't eat meat, they are also familiar with all sorts of odd food items such as tahini, and want to eat them. Here is my guess as to the reactions of people reading this list:
- 75% said "Tahini? What's tahini?"
- 10% looked up what Tahini is, and said, "I'm not eating that."
- 5% said "Hmmm, tahini. What the hey, I'll try it!" 20 years from now, someone will find the tahini at the back of the pantry shelf and throw it out.
- 5% said, "Sally, you can start cooking your own dinner if this is the kind of stuff you want. Your father wouldn't eat this in a million years." Followed by stomping of teenage feet and slamming of door.
- 4.5% immediately quit toying with the idea of going vegetarian and went directly to McDonald's.
- 0.5% said, "Oh, yum, tahini! This is going to be so great!"
Not that I have anything against tahini. It's good stuff, especially as part of halva. But I'm also not going to compose a dinner made of tahini, garbanzo beans, celery, and tofu. I like my family, and want to keep them.
Also, movable type's spell checker doesn't know the word tahini. Its suggested replacements: rhinitis, machinist, shining, zucchini, Delphinia. Sounds more appetizing all the time.