[stylist] The Jacuzzi Event by Old Blind Mike! For fun!

Sun Aug 30 17:55:18 UTC 2015

Debby,

Our hearts sank when we read that your clueless teacher made you discard
that pepper-infused cookie batter.  Had she even a glimmer of creativity she
might have sensed how inadvertently ahead of your time you were.

My wife, Cheryl, and I eat pepper bacon, pepper cheese, salt and pepper
pistachio nuts, chili-chocolate cake, to name some.  Simply baking cookies
with that batter, as well as a batch without pepper  would have been a fine
experiment and a teachable moment.  

But we were pleased to recognize in your email one of our Wisconsin friends,
Dave Hyde.

Seems like there is a story lurking in your email.

Regards,

Bill Meeker and Cheryl Orgas

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Oh Mike! That is one of the funniest this-so I've read! Thanks for sharing!
You made a tense situation so very funny and interesting.  I can just see me
doing something like that! Lol.  
I did once put pepper in chocolate chip cookie dough.  OH my goodness, did I
get in trouble for that one! Well, sort of.  I was in 7th grade.  We were in
Home Ec class at the Oregon School for the Blind.  We were preparing cookies
and other goodies for a dance that would be held in two days' time.  My
boyfriend at the time, was David Hyde, (some of you may know him).  He was
one of the most popular boys in school, and I was so happy because I knew
that I wouldn't be a wallflower at this dance.  I was mixing the cookie
dough, following a Braille recipe.  I reached into a cupboard and got out a
measuring device that placed 1 teaspoonful exactly of whatever had been
placed in it.  This time it was supposed to be salt.  I didn't sniff the
container-I had no idea that some idiot would also use it for pepper.  So
into the dough went the pepper.  Our home ec teacher, Mrs..  Jackson came
over to view my work.  "Well," she snapped, "this dough is no good! 
Weren't you paying attention at all? You just put pepper into the cookie
dough, so now you'll have to clean up this mess and start over." Out went
the dough.  The bowls, spoons, and cups all had to be rewashed, and I had to
start all over again.  (Personally now, I would have only washed the dough
bowl and just measured with the cups again.  After all, the only thing that
was wrong was the pepper.  But I believe Mrs.  Jackson made me rewash
everything to re-enforce my disgrace.  No one, until this day, knew about
the pepper in the cookie dough.  (Until now, of 
course).    Debby

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