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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Sometimes it's better not to know. Friday, May 04, 2007 Sometimes it's better not to know. So I had a tub of sour cream in the fridge last night, and I was considering cooking something that sour cream could be usefully applied to. Before things escalated to that extent though, I began to wonder just how old that sour cream was. The creamy white goop is rather known for its perishibility, after all. So I started debating it, and trying to remember when I bought it, and the more I thought, the more suspicious I became. Pretty soon I'd not only talked myself out of making taquitos supreme, but had decided to throw away the sour cream as well. But before I did, I had to check to see how rotten it was. Why? Good question. I was already committed to not eating it and throwing it out, so why bother looking inside the container? Did I crave the sight of green/brown/yellow mold creeping across the surface of the pristine whiteness? Perhaps, but I didn't get that joy, for there was no sign of mold within. It didn't even smell janky. Paradoxically, that just made me more suspicious. I had decided it was old and rotten, therefore it was supposed to be old and rotten, and the fact that it was old and maybe not rotten merely deepened my suspicions. I dumped it out and washed out the container for future emergency storage needs, and as I did I tried to construct a metaphor that would analogize this situation. Why do people (obviously including myself) have to check to see if something is gross or dirty or rotten when we're throwing it out anyway? You know you look at a bandaid when you change it, or peer closely at the mold on the surface of bread you never got around to eating, etc. I think it's just curiosity, and it's not just potentially cat-killing, but psyche-scarring. So here's my advice. If you're in a bar and some hot (by bar lighting, at least) girl all but picks you up, and you two end up making out in your car and suddenly she's got her head in your lap and you're thinking it's the best night ever... when she's leaving, don't check. Do you really want to know if "she" has a vagina or not? Think of it as the Eddie Murphy correlation. Except, of course, Eddie wanted a transsexual prostitute. Labels: food Posted by: Flux # 2:10 PM Comments: I would just check the expirey date on the sour cream and then decide if it is actually off by looking at it. Or don't you have them in your backwards non-retractable-vacuum-chord, old-fashioned-tea-kettle, send-cheques-by-mail country? #: 2:43 PM posted by Anonymous Price of new sour cream: $1 to $1.50. Price of hospital visit: 60-100 dollars. Good call, Flux. #: 10:29 AM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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