Wed 30 May 2007
Gym trainee: Do you eat kiwi?
Me: I’m happy to say I have a food allergy to kiwi. I’d always hated it cuz of what it did to my tongue and the back of my throat, and in the past years discovered it’s an allergic reaction. (My parents still swear that the back of your tongue’s “supposed” to get fuzzy and tart and that it “happens to everybody” who eats kiwi.)
Gym trainee: It’s suppose to taste tart.
Me: It’s not tart at the main part of the tongue. It’s tart the way tart would be if you were injected with dots of tartness at the back of your tongue where it joins your gums, and I’ve been known to try to scrape the “fur” off the back of my throat that I swore was growing there after eating some kiwi.
Gym trainee: I know you don’t do fur 🙂 I just hate peeling the darn thing.
Me: You can cut it in half and eat out of it with a spoon. Like I do with avocados. Or you can just bite into it without peeling it if you want to see what it feels like when *I* eat a kiwi.
Gym trainee: I’ll trust you on that and continue to peel and complain about it.
Me: Sounds like a plan.
(via e-mails)
Kiwi is good! Yummy! Wonderful! Like strawberries!
I don’t like strawberries, either.
I am allergic to compazine…just an FYI..i guess! Kiwi juice is good..but if you are not a fan or allergic then I could see how you would not like it. Well, at least you don’t like a fruit that is hard to peel! I love mangoes…but man..they are messy and hard to peel.
I have a friend with allergies to strawberries. They set her mouth on fire! I like sliced kiwi’s but not too many.
I like kiwis too, especially on tarts or cakes. And no, they don’t make my throat fuzzy. I think maybe your mom was also allergic to kiwi and never thought about it.
Vanessa – not sure what compazine is, but if I ever order you a drink, I’ll be sure to avoid the compazine juice. 🙂 And getting mango flesh all over your hands and face and mango juice all down to your elbows are part of the mango’s charm.
Flat Coke – I suppose the tart-n-fuzzies are better than feeling like my mouth’s on fire. Unless you like that kinda stuff.
TurboTiger – That’s what I’d been TELLING them. That THEY’RE allergic, too. They don’t take me seriously. Oh well, it’s not like a peanut or wheat allergy, so I suppose I’ll just let them keep getting the tart-n-fuzzies.