It took all my restraint not to open it right there and then. Yesterday, I received my very first Christmas card of the season! I got a heads up that it was coming, but it honestly slipped my mind until I saw it sparkling in my mailbox today. After the feelings of betrayal wore off, I jumped back on the clam chowder wagon, skipping the clams and eating everything else. CLAMS! For months, maybe even years, I refused to eat said beloved soup. Spilled the beans and told me it was clams. Until one day (it was a dark day) someone The "chicken" bits were especially chewy but I guess my mom said they it was chicken and I never thought to question it. For years, I ate White Spot's Red Clam Chowder thinking theĬlams were chicken. Growing up, my family spent a lot of quality time at White Spot - we still do, as a matter of fact. I still haven't tapped the Fish World yet, maybe by the time I'm 30 I will be brave enough to eat the slimy, scary swimmy creatures.ĭrilling down that point a bit further, I'll tell you a little story. Realize that I pretty much like anything when it's sauteed in garlic butter and Next came deep friedĬalamari, dipped in tzitiki, and my reaction was the same. I thought it was grossly disgusting because it looks and smells weird, and then one day, under extreme provocation, I tried a garlicīuttered prawn and decided that it was chewily delicious. Phenomena, so I will just share a couple of things off the list. Hmm, for some reason I can't think of the proper words to explain this
I thought things were one way when they really In plainer, less fluffy words, I'veīeen wrong about a lot of stuff, lots of times. Throughout my life, I've had lots of misconceptions about things that were largely inaccurate.