Just Curious

I like to think curiosity is a pillar of my personality. The truth, though, is I sometimes do stupid things.

Like the time we came home from some Caribbean island where we had discovered banana ketchup. I didn’t love it, but that didn’t stop me from ordering a bottle when we got back home.

Last week, after sitting in the pantry unopened for five - (5) FIVE - years, I ditched it.

Experimenting can be good. I tried canned gravy the other day and liked it a lot.

Surprisingly good!

I enjoy the process of making gravy, so it seems unlikely I’ll ever buy a can of it myself, but at least I learned good canned gravy is a thing.

Experimenting is most fun when you just know in your heart - and head - what you’re about to experience is going to be a complete fail.

Example: If I were to offer you a beer made with marshmallows, what would be your expectations?

Did you scrunch up your face just thinking about how nasty it might be?

What if I told you it had marshmallows and certified colors.

Would you say, “Whoa! Certified colors?!? Let me at it!”

With a friend, we were offered just such an animal the other day. It was ‘on the house,’ so we had to do it. How do you turn down free beer? Especially if it has ‘certified color!’

We were one and done.

Not one beer. One swig.

But I can now say I’ve drunk beer with certified color, so I’ve got that going for me.

I can hear you asking, O’ Great Tibby, what is certified color?

I asked ChatGPT. It is color that has been validated to a standard.

In this case, it is beer, so I’m guessing it needs to look like beer.

It did.

And it was nasty!