Usually vegetables look
pretty normal; vibrant colors and good shapes. Nothing seriously is odd with
them to make anyone stop and comment on them and take a picture of them. But
one day while working with the fresh vegetables, one of the cooks pulled out a
beautiful ripe purple eggplant when the rest of us heard, “What the …” Of
course we all looked up to see her holding an eggplant with what appeared to be
a long growth coming out of the vegetable. We had to stop our work and walk
over to see this strange vegetable. The growth looks like a Pinocchio nose and
of course we all had to comment on it.
A few minutes
later someone pulled out a red pepper that had a large growth coming out of the
side of it. Another round of “What the heck,” “Strange vegetables,” “How
weird.” And of course, I lucked out and had my camera with me and had to take a
picture of the vegetables.
Then it was back to
work. I pulled out the large box of mushrooms to work on them. When I was
almost finished, I pulled out a very bizarre mushroom with two stems. It looked
like an ugly tumor and not a vegetable.
I related all this
happening to a friend who wondered if the vegetables had come from an area by
Three Mile Island. I thought about that and finally shook my head because my
daughter gets her produce delivered from The Strip area. But where it was grown
was a mystery.
For what it was worth…I
never expected to be entertained that much in the catering kitchen. But I guess
I was lucky all thanks to some weird vegetables.
