[CH] New subgroup?
George A. Starkey (gas@kdlegal.com)
Wed, 04 Sep 2002 08:31:27 -0500
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002, at 04:02 PM, Doug Irvine wrote:
> Even us Chile Head Mac Heads.....should we start a new list?? BIG
:-))
I am a Mac user at home. My pedantic employer has us using CowPac
PCs... with Gropewise, er, Groupwise. Pfeh.
I say we ordain a new title for Mac-o-philes on the list..
The Chili Mac Heads.
It should confuse those not on the list completely. They'll think we're
worshippers of some Hamburger Helper variant.
Actually, it ain't bad, with a few fresh jalapenos sliced and simmered
in. Ultimate bachelor comfort food, with all the food groups:
Fat, salt, and fire!
Funny story: I was visitiing a friend over the weekend, and next to
his driveway was a couple of vines that had been pulled up in his home
renovation. I looked at them, and said, "Mike, don't you like these?"
He replied that they were a perennial flowering plant that kept
coming up. It grew like crazy, and usually by the end of summer, all the
flowers were gone and nothing was left but the husky seed pods. His
wife agreed, they made pretty little flowers, but they really grew wild
as the summer went on.
I peeled back one of the husky coverings and took a bite of the
small green fruit. His wife looked at me in shock, that I would eat such
a strange thing.
"Mike," I said, barely able to control my laughter,"THESE ARE
TOMATILLO PLANTS!!"
Apparently they've been coming up volunteer for the last couple of
years, and reseeding themselves, each year becoming more feral. Oh, the
strange things that happen in Central Indiana...
--George