The Devil Weed

To really understand this post, you must understand how much I absolutely hate the spice Rosemary. It is the nastiest weed ever, and I can’t believe that people actually put it on food. I think it tastes like mold. Seriously. And I really can’t understand why no one else sees this. My husband thinks I’m a nut because when I taste something I can tell if there is one spec of rosemary in it. Nasty-ass stuff!

That being said, we were at Whole Foods the other day, perusing frozen foods. Eli spotted these Belgian waffles he thought looked good, so we bought a box – 7-Grain Healthy Belgian Waffles.

The next morning, I fixed Eli a waffle, and I thought it looked good, so I decided to make myself one, too. However, I don’t really like the sugar-free syrup we buy for Eli (as much as he pours on, I started buying sugar free). I dug out some maple syrup we had in the back of the pantry. I drenched my pancake in maple syrup and took a big bite. And immediately spit it out. I tasted Rosemary. Blech!

I told Eric, “This waffle is disgusting.” Eric asked what was wrong with it because it looked fine to him. I said, “It just tastes nasty.”

So Eric took a big bite. And immediately spit it out. I said, “See?”

He shouted, “It’s not the waffle that’s bad. It’s the syrup! The syrup’s gone bad,” he said as he was gagging and trying not to throw up. “I can’t believe you just fed me moldy syrup!”

I said, “Syrup goes bad?” (Seriously, I didn’t know this, did you?) Eric just made a frustrated grunt since he was still spitting in the sink. I said, “Well, I didn’t feed it to you. I didn’t tell you to eat it.”

He said, “Well, why didn’t you tell me it tasted moldy?!”

I said, “Because I just thought the waffle had Rosemary in it.”

He glared at me. “You can’t tell the difference between Rosemary and MOLD?!”

“Exactly,” I said. “Now do you see why I hate Rosemary so much!”

He was not amused.