Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Pistachio Salad

I survived surgery! The world didn't end!

Doing okay, listening to music, listening to the rain, weaving in and out of the drug-induced post-surgical comfort. Surprised by how many times I've wanted to hop up to do something - and realized that I can't.

That's an interesting predicament.

My kids, my husband, my mom and dad are good nurses. Gail Love brought wonderful dinner, with the best pistachio salad I've ever had. Though I don't know how you can call something like that "salad". I mean, it's got Cool Whip all over it. It tastes like candy! Is that salad?

This requires some investigation. Since I have a little time on my hands, let me do just that.

A few moments later:

sal·ad
/ˈsæləd/ Show Spelled[sal-uhd]
–noun
1.
a usually cold dish consisting of vegetables, as lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers, covered with a dressing and sometimes containing seafood, meat, or eggs.
2.
any of various dishes consisting of foods, as meat, seafood, eggs, pasta, or fruit, prepared singly or combined, usually cut up, mixed with a dressing, and served cold: chicken salad; potato salad. 

Well, then. There it is. (Does anybody else get that? I don't know a lot of references from movies, but I watched Amadeus about forty times. That was a great line. There it is.) No Cool Whip. Unless Cool Whip is a "dressing".

This proves my point. Gail, I love this stuff. I could eat an entire bucket. But I think we gotta come up with a different name.

As part of my investigation, I asked Tony what he thought about this situation. Having just arrived home from putting a tarp on the top of his house down the road (in the rain) (in the dark), he seems rather disinterested in my opinion that this salad mislabeling is of great importance.

Oh, well. So it goes.

I'm not allowed to make any important decisions for 24 hours. I'm not allowed to shower for 48 hours.

I wonder if, at 24 hours, I could decide to shower?

This post brought to you by Percocet, my new bff. And Pistachio Candysalad.

4 comments:

Megan Reams said...

Is Pistachio Candysalad the same at Watergate Salad? I'm guessing yes, b/c they both use pistachio pudding as the base. Now I'm super jealous! Maybe I'll make some tomorrow. Enjoy the percocet while you have reason to use it :-) Almost makes me want to have my wisdom teeth out again...eh, maybe not.

Travis Wagner said...

This was by far the most hilarious thing I've read for weeks.

Lindsay Durrenberger said...

if what you were eating is a pistachio salad, then what your brother ate last night at bible study was an oreo salad.

i razzed him for eating cool whip despite it's unmistakable white and creamy disposition. but he thought i said it was "miracle whip" and almost gagged. the look on his face was priceless.

side note: shout out, percocet!

WhatAboutNovember said...

I vote we all band together and put ground up percocet in your yogurt from time to time. This is fun.