Friends know that I have an aversion to sprouting foods. Things like onions and potatoes, vegetables that are supposed to be eaten long before they grow, gross me right out once they've developed stalks and eyes. Things like this (ew) make me leave the kitchen. And walking in to the kitchen today, I find a horrifying green tendril emerging from a piece of garlic, which bore an awful resemblance to the totally terrifying cordyceps fungus at work. I can't believe that you all don't think this stuff is horrible.
Posted by Kriston at January 30, 2008 11:08 AMOh i'll see you your green tendril in the kitchen and raise you one DECAYING RAT.
Posted by: susan at January 30, 2008 11:59 AMKriston,
A local artist says, So Human A Vegetable...
Sarah Gerould's sprotting vegetables rampage through a burning city in Some Say Fire.
http://www.sarahgerould.com/
James
Posted by: James W. Bailey at January 30, 2008 12:42 PMWe discovered the same sort of protrusions emerging from two garlic cloves in our kitchen last night. Must have been a coordinated uprising.
Posted by: D.Billy at January 30, 2008 1:17 PMWhoa, I discovered a sprouting garlic bulb last night too. They're taking over.
Posted by: Amanda at January 30, 2008 1:36 PMWow. You have cordyceps fungus at work? Is it growing in someone's cubicle or something? Cool.
(just kidding)
Posted by: Hovie at January 30, 2008 2:00 PMNo, no, I'm writing this from home. I have growing garlic in my very own kitchen. I sleep not a few dozen yards away.
Posted by: Kriston at January 30, 2008 2:10 PMI've seen this aversion in person -- Capps will turn and walk right out the kitchen even if he just happens upon YOU cutting off the sprouts from a potato or something. I thought this was strange, until I realized I do the exact same thing every time a roach enters within a 20-foot radius of me.
Posted by: matty at January 31, 2008 9:26 AMI will never, ever forgive you for that video, Kriston.
Posted by: sarahb at January 31, 2008 11:33 AMOh, sorry. When you mentioned "the totally terrifying cordyceps fungus at work," it sounded like there was one at the Washington City Paper. I thought maybe it was giving out really harsh art reviews or something. BTW is it just me or is it possible to hear the ant in the middle of the video saying, "It's not a tumor!"
Posted by: Hovie at January 31, 2008 8:40 PM
