Tonight’s Secret Ingredient Is…
Life • April 1st, 2006A few nights ago, after watching the episode where Iron Chef Chinese loses a potatoes battle against a female challenger, Joey and I got into a conversation about secret ingredients that would suck. We joked about lettuce ever being a secret ingredient – which we thought would be pretty lame, and this triggered a fantasy of Joey, after much sacrifice and effort, somehow being able to “serve” as a judge for one of the Iron Chef battles.
In the fantasy, Joey pictures himself all ready and happy making jokes with the Japanese actress du jour, and holding his napkin in anticipation of the delightful five-course meal. Takeshi Kaga makes the introduction as the music goes in crescendo. He finally says: “Tonight’s secret ingredient is… BRUSSEL SPROUTS!” Joey screams in disappointment “DAMN!!!”, and this is where we break in hysterical laughter for several minutes…
See, there are two kinds of people: Those who love brussel sprouts, and those (like us), who vomit a little in their mouths just to think of them. You would have to be in that last group –and of course, dream of being an Iron Chef judge– in order to understand why we were laughing so hard.
