Stupid Simple Solution
So, I love salsa.
It's one of my most favorite things ever.
I remember being a kid and Mom and Dad would come home with the Price Club vat of Pace Salsa, and I would pour out a bowl of the stuff and rip open a bag of tortilla chips.
And then I would very carefully dip my chip in the salsa, making very sure that no chunks were left on my chip.
Because salsa chunks are gross.
I know...
It seems weird that I claim to love salsa, yet I hate the chunky chunks.
As a kid I would only allow the red saucy stuff on my chips.
Well...I still do that.
Anyway, when this happens, I am always left with a bowl full of chunks, which I unceremoniously dump down the drain.
It's such a horrible waste, but I get the jibblies when I try to choke it down.
But I'm still a sucker for any flavor of salsa.
So, when I was walking down the aisles at Costco, and I saw this new cranberry salsa, I eagerly put it in my cart, and snagged a bag of tortilla chips.
That night, I opened up the salsa and the bag of chips, and sat down to watch movie with Jeremy.
I scooped up the chunky cranberry salsa, and popped it in my mouth.
It was delicious.
But it made me shudder.
*Crunch* *Shudder* *Crunch* *Shudder*
Eee....jibblies...
It was like I was biting tiny, legless jellyfishes, complete with the little pop that would probably occur if you bit a baby jellyfish. Or maybe if you bit one of those bubble things on seaweed, or kelp. Blech.
Then it dawned on me.
I make smoothies almost every morning (except I haven't for about a week, since the new blender we bought had dull blades, and was catching all the fibers instead of cutting them, causing the motor to burn. I think this is the 5th or 6th blender I have bought. I have a tendency to kill them by destroying the motor, or shattering the glass on the floor (I think the tally is 2:4, meaning, I have burned out two motors, and shattered 4 on the floor. It's tragic.). I have come to the conclusion that I need to buy an expensive plastic blender, but it hurts my feelings to pay that much for a blender. But, I guess that's what I'll just have to do.), and I thought, "Gee, I could just blend up the salsa!"
And that's what I did. No more chunks.
It was marvelous.
It's only taken me 32 years to make the connection between chunky salsa and my blender.
Now I have lovely cranberry salsa that won't make me gag.
And I have my eye on the mango salsa...for, you know, whenever I buy another blender.
It's one of my most favorite things ever.
I remember being a kid and Mom and Dad would come home with the Price Club vat of Pace Salsa, and I would pour out a bowl of the stuff and rip open a bag of tortilla chips.
And then I would very carefully dip my chip in the salsa, making very sure that no chunks were left on my chip.
Because salsa chunks are gross.
I know...
It seems weird that I claim to love salsa, yet I hate the chunky chunks.
As a kid I would only allow the red saucy stuff on my chips.
Well...I still do that.
Anyway, when this happens, I am always left with a bowl full of chunks, which I unceremoniously dump down the drain.
It's such a horrible waste, but I get the jibblies when I try to choke it down.
But I'm still a sucker for any flavor of salsa.
So, when I was walking down the aisles at Costco, and I saw this new cranberry salsa, I eagerly put it in my cart, and snagged a bag of tortilla chips.
That night, I opened up the salsa and the bag of chips, and sat down to watch movie with Jeremy.
I scooped up the chunky cranberry salsa, and popped it in my mouth.
It was delicious.
But it made me shudder.
*Crunch* *Shudder* *Crunch* *Shudder*
Eee....jibblies...
It was like I was biting tiny, legless jellyfishes, complete with the little pop that would probably occur if you bit a baby jellyfish. Or maybe if you bit one of those bubble things on seaweed, or kelp. Blech.
Then it dawned on me.
I make smoothies almost every morning (except I haven't for about a week, since the new blender we bought had dull blades, and was catching all the fibers instead of cutting them, causing the motor to burn. I think this is the 5th or 6th blender I have bought. I have a tendency to kill them by destroying the motor, or shattering the glass on the floor (I think the tally is 2:4, meaning, I have burned out two motors, and shattered 4 on the floor. It's tragic.). I have come to the conclusion that I need to buy an expensive plastic blender, but it hurts my feelings to pay that much for a blender. But, I guess that's what I'll just have to do.), and I thought, "Gee, I could just blend up the salsa!"
And that's what I did. No more chunks.
It was marvelous.
It's only taken me 32 years to make the connection between chunky salsa and my blender.
Now I have lovely cranberry salsa that won't make me gag.
And I have my eye on the mango salsa...for, you know, whenever I buy another blender.
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| Look, Ma! No chunks! |
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