From: "Sarah W. Herbst"
To: chris north-keys
Subject: Wasabi Fun (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 09:48:53 -0500 (CDT)
From: Joe D
To: humor@eden.com
Subject: Wasabi Fun
>From another mailing list:
> > Dr. Dean Edell today mentioned in passing a case reported in
> > (I think he said) the New England Journal of Medicine, of a man
> > who thought the wasabi in a Japanese restaurant was guacamole.
>
> Plausible. I with my very own baby brown eyes saw a Scottish
> tourist lady pop the entire ping-pong ball of wasabi into her
> mouth and bite down on it. When she got off the floor a few
> minutes later, exhibiting classic symptomology of a mildly
> stricken chemical-warfare victim, she explained, "I thought
> it was cucumber."
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