We made baba ghanoush last night. It's pretty much pureed roasted eggplant, lemon juice, tahini, olives, and garlic in which we dipped toasted pitas. We enjoyed it; please don't tell homeland security. We had it with pork so we should be fine. The pork was infadelicious! Crap, the pork was spiced in a middle eastern fashion so maybe that cancels out the porkiness. But wait, we had wine with it too so we're probably not in imminent danger of landing in Guantanamo Bay.
And now for the fun fact--the molecule that makes us taste mint and the one that makes us taste black licorice are identical except they are mirror images (stereoisomers) of each other. Everyone knows this. What most people don't know is that due to this fact, if a left handed person drank a Jaegermeister mojito they would die instantly. The exact scientific reason for this is not easily explainable to the layperson, but it has to do with the way lefthanded people's deviant, twisted brains are wired to their tastebuds...which have horns. The same thing would happen to a right handed person in the southern hemisphere, of course. The good news is that anyone can enjoy a refreshing Jag mojito while standing on their head. The more you know.
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