NOW!
The pumkins have been gathering in and around large stores. They are luring unsuspecting families to pumpkin patches. Be careful, they are everywhere in the US, they are sneaky, they disguise themselves as lamps and pies. They can make a very squidgy mess of seeds and gooey stuff. They haven’t yet taken a strong hold in England, where parsnips are more prolific but it could happen. Be careful.
In my local diner:
Wendy: “Hold the tomatoes”
Wait-staff: “No to-MATE-Os?”
Wendy: “Yes, No…” (gets confused)
The Banana splits used to say “hold the bus“. In the original Jessie James film (1939) the newspaper editor used to say “Hold the press” and in various films people in food shops would ask wait staff to “hold the pickle” and “hold the mayonaisse“. I learned all my original American from the TV. I thought this meant that in the US you could ask to have pseudo-vegetables held by wait-staff in diners. Apparantly it’s slightly more complicated than that.
now this is evidence of serious specialising. A market dedicated to potatoes and a carpark for them too. P for parking or P for potato?
friend: there was something else I wanted to tell you about but I’ve forgotten …..
wendy: interview, driving, kerouac, exam, Budapest, spa, Spain
friend: Spain!
by and by she told the story of the testical salad, alas, an unpublishable urban tale
The shere breadth and depth of the bulk of merchanding for Valentines day is invasive and more than a tad disturbing. By contrast, the subtlety of the preparations in the produce section of my local supermarket are personally pleasing;
censorable thoughts
My ‘kick-ass’ sage Brennifer wrote:
“How can you not like broccoli? It’s LITTLE TREES! That FIT IN YOUR MOUTH! It’s TREELICIOUS!”no, No, NOThat’s just wrongBrocolli and Celery just ARE wrong.
Wendy will-not-shift-on-this-spiritual-point
A quick visual scan of the Wikipedia listings of fruits and Vegetables confirms that no common produce rhymes with the word ‘Hex’.
Tonight I’m investigating tomatoes. If I leave these for a couple of days they might go all ’squishy’, but you didn’t really need to know that did you?
Wendy Investigating-the-properties-of-produce 
