Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Reflections In the Kitchen Window - THE SUPER AMAZING FOODIE NAME ASSOCIATION LADY

STEP RIGHT UP, FOLKS, LET THE SUPER AMAZING FOODIE NAME ASSOCIATION LADY GIVE YOU THE FOOD WITH WHICH YOU ARE LINKED TO THE UNIVERSE!!  DON'T LET THIS CHANCE PASS YOU BY!!

Back to reality....I'm currently reading a *book by Aimee Bender called "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" which I find to be truly enjoyable.  It is told from the perspective of a 9-year old girl who upon waking up one morning finds that she can taste the emotion one was feeling through the foods they create.  I think it's a brilliant concept and as my mother and I were discussing the book this morning, she said she has a similar, but not-so-similar, food quirk.  When she hears a person's name, she automatically associates the name with a food. She does not choose the food, the food chooses it.  She explained that sometimes the reason her brain makes the association is obvious (similar consonant/vowel combinations or repetitions), and others have no other correlation whatsoever.  Here is a list of her name/food associations.  Comment below and tell me YOUR odd foodie quirk!  Also, if you don't see your name, leave a comment and the Super Amazing Foodie Name Association Lady will grant you with YOUR special food.

Jane:  applesauce

Anne:  bananas

Karen:  creamed corn

Doug:  baseball card bubble gum

Jill:  jelly

Craig:  cranberries or any other tart berry

Angie:  her mother's tomato sauce meatloaf gravy, because it had undrained beef grease in it....

Connie:  cottage cheese

Lois:  pineapple

Vivian:  milk

Bailey:  stale bread

Cindy:  the hard shell on a dipped cone

Marcy:  Sweet Tarts

Amanda:  she is not sure what this name reminds her of

Diana:  bananas (again)

Laura:  cherry Tootsie Pop

Rebecca:  the white part of a raw egg

Eric:  the flavor that's in your mouth of yellow bile when you have the dry heaves

Mark:  a half-masticated caramel...soft and chewy....

Theresa:  tomato soup

Peggy:  chomping into a hard candy

Sarah:  those little sour green clovers that grow in the backyard that every little kid eats and calls "pickles"

Benjamin:  jelly  NICKNAME -  Ben:  jelly beans

Sheila:  soft Hershey's chocolate, a little melted

Brian:  Oriental fried rice

Tanya:  citrus

Robert:  raw cake batter

Piper:  biting into a crunchy pepper

-------------No one said my family was normal, ok?

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5 comments:

  1. Lol! Wow thats a little crazy. I definitely like mine tho. Sweet tarts Yay!!!

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  2. She also said that January and February remind her of strawberry jelly on bread. They both are associated with the same food mostly because of the "ary" part. March = crunchy. April is two things: those little candy dots on paper or the punch you drink at a bridal or baby shower. May = flour-based gravys. June = Shredded Wheat. July = lemonade, same with August. September = spaghetti. October = sunflower seeds, in the shell. November and December had no food associations, which is odd because there is so much food in those two months....

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  3. I'm just too complicated for the Super Amazing Foodie Name Association Lady. Yea... Story of my life. Le sigh.

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  4. Eric: the flavor that's in your mouth of yellow bile when you have the dry heaves


    Hahaha! my pippa's bio sperm jerk offs name.

    love it!

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