I don't eat rocket, I said with conviction. There was no screwed-up face, wrinkled nose or furrowed brow; Just the simple statement. It's not weird you know, or maybe it is. I don't know or really care too much...It just doesn't happen. Me and rocket aren't friends.
The woman I was speaking to, rocket girl, smiled her very pretty smile which touched her eyes and lit them up as she said, fine, more for me! She didn't seemed phased, but I caught the wriggle of her nose as she said it...I thought it odd, but put it out of mind - Captivated by those eyes.
What, you thought the smile was for me? You thought those eyes shine for me? Nope, it was all about rocket. I hate you even more for that rocket you peppery, tangy, weedy nitrate and polyphenol loaded green leafy bastard! I hate you. Damned bloody rocket.
But then
You're looking at todays lunch in that image below. My lunch. It's a chicken and quinoa salad with almonds, cranberries and rocket! What parallel universe or other dimension have I entered? Was I abducted by aliens, probed and then taken to rocketopia?
Rocket is sometimes called arugula which sounds a little like Dracula so carries with it a degree of cool-factor. Yeah, I'd be a vampire if I could...I'd make a good one too! Anyway, the arugula/Dracula connection is tenuous at best so I'll just move on. Besides, if I was a vampire I'd not be eating arugula, that's for certain; It'd be about biting necks and drinking blood of course...Why am I still talking about vampires? Move on G-dog!
I felt like something different for lunch today and the owner of the café I frequent suggested this salad. I think she was trying to get rid of them because who wants rocket right? I relented and it got placed on my table along with my iced cafe-latte and the owner said, enjoy G-dog. Yeah not likely girlie, not likely at all ya nutbag.
But then
I squeezed on some lemon because apparently it was going to add some taste-awesomeness to the dish, and hopefully hide the taste of the rocket, and then I dug the fork in, resigned to my rockety-fate.
I started chewing and...Hmm, tastes pretty good came to mind. I know, it went against my anti-rocket instinct but I'm just being honest. It wasn't half-bad. OK, sure it was probably due to the other ingredients and not the rocket itself, but let's just say that the rocket didn't ruin the dish as I had expected it to. Mind blown.
I took another bite, then another and then before I knew it...Yeah that's right, I finished my lunch, rocket and all. I sat there dumbfounded trying to figure what it meant and how I might process the mind-blowing fact I'd consumed rocket. Only brief minutes earlier rocket was anathema to me and now...Clean bowl, no heinous rocket left to languish un-eaten, unloved and wilting in the bowl rejected.
Nothing seemed ok anymore; The world seemed irrevocably changed; It was like I had shifted just slightly, and had landed in some alternate time and place, a place where I liked rocket? What madness was this. How do I return to my own space and time?
But then
I contemplated my situation, my ate rocket and didn't hate it conundrum; I became lost in the search for understanding, for meaning, but could find none. Temporary insanity? Mid-life crisis? Was I finally turning into a vampire? OK, I would have liked that were it true, and besides, I wouldn't be eating rocket if I was. I mulled it over, even grabbed another coffee to inspire the brain to greater levels of thought. Smoke began to emerge from my ears as the hamster ran faster in my noggin turning the cogs and gears.
Then it came to me...I realised what had changed...It was that girl! Rocket girl and her damned smile, those damned beautiful eyes and that wiggle of her nose! I'd been hexed by her!
She'd cast a some sort of rockety-spell on me causing me to like rocket. I mean, that smile and those eyes...They did sort of speak to me in ways words could never. But could they compel me in this way? Is it possible? I could only conclude that it is indeed possible. I ate rocket after all. I'd been spell-bound!
It was a relief to come to that understanding, I'll be honest. I can't imagine a world in which I actually like rocket, on anything. It just seems far too unlikely. Although I wonder if the spell will compel me to do anything else...Will I start liking synchronised swimming? Will I sell my guns and take up knitting? Will I finally get my out-of-control eyebrows waxed? Anything is on the table I guess...I mean, if she can get me to eat rocket what other devious and mind-boggling things might I be forced into?
I think I'm safe though, for the moment at least. I took stock of myself. Still like guns, check. Don't like synchronised swimming, check. My manly and rustic eyebrows still in tact, check. It's all good...I've managed to survive and until next time will continue hating rocket. I'll be ever-vigilant though, one never knows when one may become spell-bound.
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It looks very good, there is nothing left on the plate. Maybe in our mind is the conception that we do not like something and it is not true, we will see you practicing some new sport.
Ate the rocket, still don't like it and have no desire to do so. But I'm not one to let food go to waste.
I'm feeling a little hurt that you see the rocket as somehow, un-manly. Arugula is the only reason I eat salads. When I was first introduced to this luscious leaf several years ago, I was outraged that nobody had shared it with me sooner. I would have been eating salads my whole life I had known that somebody made lettuce that was spicy.
I grow my own now, and let me tell you what, that stuff wil put hair on your chest, clear your sinuses, attract the perfect mate, and cause your peers to envy your pain tolerance. Mixed with wild mustard greens, this stuff can make a salad that dressing will only ruin.
I don't seek to change your opinion, though I can't help but wonder, are you certain someone didn't feed you kale and just tell you it was rocket?
Kale is even more heinous than rocket in my opinion...I guess it's like anything, some like stuff that others don't. I mean people love balut but it's not something you'll ever catch me eating it. Google will demonstrate what it is if you do not know.
I also don't like my hot food touching my cold food on a plate so...maybe I'm just weird.
Don't read too much into it mate, just a blog is all.
If you give up shooting and take up knitting I want to see you do it competitively. Speed knitting with carbon fiber needles and braided metal yarn. Manly knitting.
Yeah women have a strange way of casting these curses, I've started eating all kinds of strange HEALTHY shit because of them. Must be some kind of secret society or something.
It's funny you mention this, it's exactly what I was thinking! Speed knitting!
Hahaha, yes you were transfixed by those eyes my friend.
I would spend an hour there carefully picking each piece of rocket out and putting it on a side plate. Then Marian would fold it in a serviette and bring it home for the animals 🤣
Lol...You don't like eating weeds either.
Hahaha, those things are for rabbits my friend.
Haha...Best left to the bunnies.
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I thought you already waxed those fuzzy caterpillars..?
LMAO...
See that laugh was...
H U G E . . .
I'm growing them out so I can comb them over my head when I go bald.
And Wolverine style sideburns..?
☝️ Me taking flight.
This post gave me a good chuckle this morning - gotta watch out for those temptresses when you're out and about, you never know what you'll be eating next! 😛
I know right? It's always something healthy too...Come on! Tempt me in donuts or something why don't you!
LOL! I actually kind of wish my other half would tempt me with something healthy now and again - unfortunately, I find it hard to resist the lure of the takeaway!
Nothing good ever came from something healthy.
Umm, maybe that came out wrong.
Nothing healthy is ever good.
Hmm...
Good healthyness is nothing?
I'm not sure I'm hitting the mark here, but I think you get the picture.
Rocket with some roast beef and some spicy horseradish splattered all over it is pretty good for a sandwich. I agree with the temptress statement below; sirens of the restaurant and bar industry...dangerous, dangerous, dangerous...the secret credit card hates it!
I actually don't mind rocker on things but couldn't eat a salad of rocket. The temptress...Yes, dangerous. Lol.
Hahahaha this was so funny to read. Actually it looks delicious, it made me hungry lol. Arugula has a bitter taste if it is not seasoned well. I think there was a spell put on you G. lol, I rarely saw a salad post from you.
Maybe eating rocket is an acquired taste. Would you eat it again?
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I eat rocket on things, just not as a whole salad, you know? If there's a few bits I'll eat it as long as I can mask the taste with other more legit things.
ENGAGEtoday.First...🎶...Love is in the air...🎶...second...whaaaat a picture with food?!...ok ok it is fine...you finished and took a pic, you shall be forgiven.
I suppose the sun is shining tomorrow since you finished the evil 'rocket'. Mother nature brought you a delicious and healthy salad, you should appreciate... :)
I balanced out the food image with a non-food plate image...I hope that means I'm still part of the WHAT WAS ON YOUR PLATE fraternity.
I forgave you already.
Hey, you are the founder of the fraternity, of course you are still part of it lol. I may have been sort of a muse if anything but you're the big boss 😄.
And a before and after pic should be fine too. ;)
I think before and after shots are a great idea!
It's good to know I'm in the loop still., I'd hate to get thrown out of my own community! 🤣
😂 you asked lol. Restricted to one before shot and as many after shots as you'd like. Ahhh I have lots of ideas. If that community ever comes to live I will send you a wish list lol.
By the way looking bad ass in your Pew Gun post from yesterday 🤘.
The community will happen, I just have to find five minutes to get it up and running. I've been a little under pressure lately. Probably this weekend something will happen.
And yeah, thanks...I don't get called bad ass much anymore...Just bad! 😂
Relax, the community won't run away. No pressure, it should be fun, even the creating process. If you need help with something let me know. Ok ok it is only 3 month of me throwing my random thoughts into the Hive, but if there is anything I can do...I'm here 😄.
I use to say NEVER till I did many things I said I would never do. Now it is almost taboo for me to say it, so I try not too LOL !!!!
This is not the same but....it kind of reminded me....
When I was 20'ish or barely more, I decided I would go visit one of my Grandmothers every week or two. She lived alone and back then in this area, you didn't always call first as is polite and necessary if you were going to see family. I can't even imagine not calling first now, but....
I stopped for a visit and we talked and talked in her living room and after a while she asked me if I had eaten lunch and I said no, so she asked if I would like to have a sandwich with her and I said yes. I followed her to the kitchen where she looked around in her fridge and said "You do eat tomatoes don't you? I believe that may be all I have for a sandwich here.
NO.. .NO... No I didn't eat tomatoes ! They were gross and the gushy slimy seed part was hideous !
But it was all she had to offer and I heard myself say "Yes I do !"
eh hem....
So, I watched as she sliced the beautiful tomatoes she had grown in her own garden, get out bread and mayo. I watched to see her put mayo on both pieces of bread, so that is what I did too. All the while, in my head, I was gasping "how am I going to eat this? how am I going to take a bite?? OMGoodness I hope I don't gag ! 😂 I took that first bite of course and.... it was AWESOME.... I do mean delicious ! I couldn't believe it so...
To this day I think tomatoes were hideous before that very moment, but because I was being a good granddaughter and accepting the only thing my Grandmother had to offer, God made tomatoes start tasting delicious that very day. LOL
Grandmothers.... or a pretty/handsome face..... no telling what one would do for either.
You are completely right and I'll confess that I'll eat just about anything, but it wouldn't have made for a very fun post if I wrote, here's my lunch, it was good. So, I made it a little more interesting and creative.
You're right though, we really need to experience things before we turn our noses up at them, within reason I mean. I'm talking about food here, not heroin or self-mutilation etc. I htink you know what I mean.
I actually eat rocket all the time as it's so widely used here, but I'd rather eat something else.
And yeah, pretty faces...Damn them! 😆
My Dad had a big garden and we always had to try things. There were tomatoes everywhere all summer. I loved sauces with tomatoes in them, spaghetti, chili, catsup for sure ! We didn't have to keep eating them if we found we didn't like them, but we had to taste the first time. I'm sure I had tasted raw tomatoes before, but it had been when I was very young. My tastes have changed over the years and I eat many things I didn't like as a child.... tomato sandwiches though.... only started tasted good on that magic day.
Our tastes change over time, I know mine has...Blue cheese wasn't a thing for me in my twenties...Later, it's a thing! The same for everyone I guess...We just have to get over that initial hurdle.
Uhhhhh I know why it changes...being a smartass now lol.
Every 7+/- years the taste buds change, pretty much our entire body is renewed with new cells and atoms within that time period.
We are kinda not the same anymore.
Also taste buds develop in different stages, that is why kids don't like broccoli or bitter stuff. Mother nature made them not like it, parents shouldn't force them to eat what they don't like.
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So you're telling me that I only ever get to seven years old and then I'm new again? No wonder I only act like a seven year old!
😂 Off to bed now young man...it is late lol
I think you will be fine. You can claim it was too much work to dig it out from where it was mixed in with everything else. :)
I have eaten things I wasn't fond of for that reason before.
Lol, consumption through laziness! I like it...I'll be honest that's happened to me too.
So far I haven't carked it (died) from my rocket experience so all is going well.
Sounds to me, like he finally saw the light ;)
Not sure about the light babe, Saw the rocket though! ...And them eyes. ;)
That dish was clean! You should try another fish if it to see if you’re still spell-bound. Haha ! Great read.
Yeah, I cleaned up the plate pretty well. Stopped short of licking it. 😁
😂🤣I guess the spell was a tad bit weak. Lol