Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Cheery Tomatoes

I remember the first time I was served a fruit plate in Korea--my first thought was, Wow, those are some big cherries! Turns out they were cherry tomatoes, which had me assuming something got lost in translation.


Tonight was a first, as well--not my first chicken salad, by any means. But the first time I've seen the reverse error: no, those aren't really small cherry tomatoes with my lettuce and dressing and whatnot, those are regular-size maraschino cherries! That's just ... strange.

Speaking of strange, the Salvador Dali caganer:

1 comment:

Adam said...

Maybe the chicken salad makers were aiming for some kind of Persian thing.