tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post6062381715863508863..comments2024-03-28T22:15:17.067-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: The best grapefruit EVER!Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-43829145021290272872019-02-05T18:29:02.315-06:002019-02-05T18:29:02.315-06:00And Grizz, I've been known to combine cranberr...And Grizz, I've been known to combine cranberry juice, Fresca, and vodka. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-83504927323777904302019-02-05T18:28:08.392-06:002019-02-05T18:28:08.392-06:00Funny, just today my pharmacist told me I shouldn&...Funny, just today my pharmacist told me I shouldn't consume one of my meds (which I've taken for years) with grapefruit. Never been a fan, so not a sacrifice. But an odd confluence of events that it should occur today. I do have the occasional Fresca, though. I have to think there's too little actual grapefruit for me to worry...right?Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-888693108501272432019-02-05T13:23:45.566-06:002019-02-05T13:23:45.566-06:00Same here...for both the meds and the mirth.
My w...Same here...for both the meds and the mirth.<br /><br />My wife used to buy those wonderful Texas-sized grapefruits (from Texas, natch)...and I would consume EVERYTHING inside the yellow outer shell and sometimes even the pink lining on the inside of it. I loved them THAT much. Now they are forbidden fruit...nyuk nyuk...and I miss them terribly. <br /><br />I miss drinking grapefruit juice even more, and also Squirt, which contains grapefruit juice. I sometimes mixed straight grapefruit juice with vodka, and also drank Squirt and vodka, which my wife thought was nuts. But as the mail carriers say--to each his zone.Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-66148028998933305732019-02-05T11:38:31.869-06:002019-02-05T11:38:31.869-06:00I thought your wife laughed because your remark in...I thought your wife laughed because your remark indicated that what you hope for in a grapefruit, taste-wise at least, is already routinely present in an orange. <br /><br />At the end of the day, please ask her if any of us hit close to the source of her amusement, or if it's too wrapped up in your relationship to translate. Coeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06130250489695215525noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-91742914063841421482019-02-05T10:59:44.144-06:002019-02-05T10:59:44.144-06:00Yes, I'm sure you had to have been there. Poss...Yes, I'm sure you had to have been there. Possibly for 30 years.<br /><br />It brings to mind something E.B. White famously wrote: "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies."<br /><br />Tom Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09641357239788323783noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-90149805334650667452019-02-05T10:16:06.862-06:002019-02-05T10:16:06.862-06:00We often describe the unfamiliar in terms of the f...We often describe the unfamiliar in terms of the familiar: Elvis Costello calls a poem "a song without music;" Joe Biden famously referred to Barrack Obama as an "articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy"(just like a white guy implied; a wine drinker complimenting a beer is likely to compare it to a fine robust wine. I think the incongruity of the comparisons is what makes them funny. Your readers are unlikely to be as amused as your wife, because to us there's little difference between an orange and a grapefruit. In fact, I understand that with a little judicious grafting, you can grow all the citrus fruits on one tree. If I ever move to California, I plan to try that, right after I plant all 6 seeds from an apple to see if that results in 6 difference varieties of apple, as Michael Pollan predicts.tatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088632798195131329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-15909352982168989522019-02-05T08:44:07.894-06:002019-02-05T08:44:07.894-06:00I can't eat grapefruit due to taking cholester...I can't eat grapefruit due to taking cholesterol medication, and I miss it.<br /><br />That said, regarding what your wife found so funny, I guess you had to be there.Bitter Scribehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645909858616987997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-64206787021378025732019-02-05T08:12:48.527-06:002019-02-05T08:12:48.527-06:00I think you had to be there, in the moment, but st...I think you had to be there, in the moment, but still the humor was offspring of your marriage. Pink grapefruit being sweetest but still nothing like an orange, an advantageous difference that explains your taste. The box of citrus my parents would send from Florida a cherished memory, sweet even without the coconut patties.JPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08613528527379198505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-39338953961718902472019-02-05T07:00:05.644-06:002019-02-05T07:00:05.644-06:00That's pretty funny!
There's a Thurberesq...That's pretty funny! <br />There's a Thurberesque story hiding in there, somewhere.Tony Galatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15119832467442771755noreply@blogger.com