[blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

Thu May 24 16:38:18 UTC 2012

My dad put diaper rash ointment on his toothbrush once by accident.  Poor 
guy--the stuff isn't water soluble, since it's meant to protect the skin 
against urine, so it was sure hard to wash out of his mouth.

I put salt instead of cornmeal in some muffins once.  It was the same kind 
of situation, I asked a friend if I had the right container, since salt and 
cornmeal both come in round cardboard boxes.  She was distracted and said 
yes without really looking, and I was busy and dumped the stuff in without 
tasting, so we both plead guilty and dumped the muffins in the trash.

My best one was when I tried to make brownies at about ten years old.  The 
only chocolate I could find was powdered chocolate milk mix.  So I dumped 
that in without cutting down the sugar, and since chocolate milk mix is 
nearly all sugar, the brownies got so hard we couldn't get them out of the 
pan with a hammer.  The pan got thrown away, but the story has hung around 
for thirty years.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Erin Rumer" <erinrumer at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2012 10:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?

> Been there done that sort of thing as I'm sure we all have.  It makes for
> great stories.  There have been a few times I've been in a rush and put
> orange juice on my cereal and just the other night I was frying some
> zucchini and when I went to add the garlic, I didn't check which side of 
> the
> shaker I opened and dumped nearly half the container in just a few shakes.
> GRIN  One of the funniest things I've ever done though is when I was a kid
> and staying the night at my grandma's house.  I went into the bathroom to
> brush my teeth and I grabbed the tube of tooth paste and put some on my
> brush as always.  I quickly discovered that the toothpaste wasn't 
> toothpaste
> at all, but instead my grandma's denture glue and my grandma nearly wet 
> her
> pants while helping me wash it out of my mouth.  My eyes were watering and
> snot was coming out of my nose I was laughing so hard because my mouth was
> nearly pasted shut.
>
> Good times!
>
> Erin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:36 PM
> To: Blind Parents Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>
> My ex husband learned the hard way that he'd have to put canned goods and
> the like in the same place every time.  He didn't, and I dumped applesauce
> into a big pot of spaghetti sauce.  We couldn't afford to throw it out, 
> and
> really, the spagetti was good, with just a hint of sweetness.  My ex took
> putting things away in the same places every time very seriously after 
> that.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant 
> of
> the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all 
> of
> these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist
>
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> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:58 PM
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> Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>
>> Thanks for sharing.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>> On Behalf Of Robert Shelton
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 9:00 PM
>> To: 'Blind Parents Mailing List'
>> Subject: Re: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth.  That is so funny.  I have a similar story.
>>
>> I was to go on sabbatical to Canada for the summer.  For reasons
>> unrelated to the point of this story, the whole family was not able to 
>> go.
>>
>> Before I got married -- my wife is sighted and had always done the
>> cooking
>> -- I'd either lived in dorms, or just made out the best I could.  So,
>> before I headed for the Great White North, , I got a crash course in
>> cooking, as a blind guy.
>>
>> That went really well, and I got to be reasonably handy in the kitchen.
>> I'm
>> OK with mobility and other living skills, so no worries.
>>
>> My oldest son, 12, at the time, really wanted to go.  Big adventure -- 
>> father and son, off to Canada for the summer.  Since Rob (number 1
>> son) was coming along, we didn't feel it necessary to label anything
>> -- my wife insisted on sending various staples, not knowing whether we
>> could find them.
>>
>>
>> So, all went well.  We found the local grocer, walked everywhere.  The
>> house provided by the university was pleasant, and life was good.
>>
>> So, one Friday evening, it had been a hard but very good week, I
>> decided to make my specialty -- beef stroganoff.  It was Rob's
>> favorite, and if I say it myself, I could do it pretty well.  I had
>> all the ingredients which I'd purchased locally and stored in places I
>> knew -- everything except the Lourie's Stroganoff seasoning -- the
>> secret ingredient which I'd brought in my suitcase.
>>
>> It had been a long day.  Rob at that time doubled as my reader (screen
>> readers were just a dream then -- actually I was working on one at the
>> time, but it was still the bad old days when we had to depend more on
>> LDPs) was zoned out in front of the tube watching George of the Jungle
>> -- Canadian TV.
>>
>> So, I was browning the beef I'd just cut up, and was getting ready to
>> put in the seasoning.  "Bleep! -- where was the seasoning?"  I went
>> back to my stash of ingredients I'd brought, and there were two
>> packages.  I grabbed one, and brought it back to get Rob to confirm it
>> was the right one.
>>
>> "Rob -- is this the Lourie's stroganoff mix?"
>>
>> "Huh?"
>>
>> "Is this the stroganoff seasoning?"
>>
>> "Uh, yeah... I guess so."
>>
>> Wrong!  Turns out, it was AusTex taco seasoning.  To this day, the
>> saga of "taconoff" is still a favorite story in the family.  Rob, who
>> will turn 40 this year, still claims that it was wonderful, but it
>> seriously tasted like "insert vile substance of choice."
>>
>> Yes, I'll bet 30 or so years down the road Sarah will have fond
>> memories of her mom and the garlic sundae.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jo Elizabeth Pinto [mailto:jopinto at msn.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 2:57 PM
>> To: NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List
>> Subject: [blparent] Garlic sundae, anyone?
>>
>> A funny thing happened this afternoon.  Sarah moved up to the four-
>> and five-year-old class at preschool, so to celebrate, I made her an
>> ice cream sundae.  Neopolitan ice cream, all three flavors, whipped
>> cream, and sprinkles.  Everything went well till the sprinkles.  I had
>> two kinds, and I took one kind out of the cupboard.  Sarah objected,
>> so I thought she wanted the other kind.  I let her guide my hand up to
>> the bottle she wanted.  I should have tasted or smelled the contents
>> of the bottle, which I usually do, but I figured Sarah knew the bottle
>> she wanted by sight.  I sprinkled the sundae generously and put the
>> bottle away.
>>
>> Then I heard a wail, "It tastes awful, Mama!  It tastes like ... yuck!"
>>
>> You guessed it!  Garlic sundae.  I felt so silly.  I made another
>> sundae, but this is one of those things we'll probably remember and
>> laugh over for years to come.
>>
>> Jo Elizabeth
>>
>> "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young,
>> compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and
>> tolerant of the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will
>> have been all of these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943,
>> American scientist
>>
>>
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