The Artist, by Pablo Picasso
Here is my take on Style Imitating Art: The Artist by Pablo Picasso. To see more, go to
Animated Cardigan! I really love that this challenge as well as yesterday's makes me use my clothes in ways I don't usually. It's great to try new clothes combinations! Speaking of trying things...
I love trying new foods and restaurants. I appreciate great food and great places to go. However, I have learned several things the hard way. Sometimes, I have to make the same mistake twice before I remember not to make it again. Here is a sampler (haha) of some of my classic blunders:
1. Gazpacho is supposed to be cold.
2. Cassoulet is not casserole.
3. French onion soup is just onions and cheese.
4. Oysters are very very very different from clams.
5. See below
A few days ago, there was a sale on Pringles chips at my local drugstore: 4 cans for $5. Bargain! (I know, chips are very bad for you and not actually "food" although they are edible, but chips and ice cream are my weaknesses.) I bought two classic original flavors, one sour cream and onion, and one which I
thought was sour lime flavored. Doesn't that sound delicious? However, when I got home and actually
read the label, I was supremely disappointed. I was fooled by the packaging illustration. It was not lime, but PICKLE flavored. This did not make me happy because I don't enjoy pickles, except as sweet relish on the occasional hot dog. However, I gathered up my good attitude and tried a few. I did not like them. Because I am tenacious, I made myself a lovely cup of tea, started a novel, and began to eat the chips anyway, hoping I would become accustomed to the flavor and eventually enjoy them. Uh, that didn't happen. I was halfway through the tube when I finally gave up. Let this be a lesson to you... or maybe just me: always read the label! Or maybe the lesson is: Stop eating chips!
Have you ever made any food mistakes?
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The illustration does totally look like limes! And, I like pickles, but pickle chips? Gross.
ReplyDeleteI had pate the other day. I know what it is, I just didn't know I wouldn't like it. At all.
OH NO! That is so sad...I would probably throw them away if I thought it was going to be lime. I just can't do pickles haha. Good for you for trying! If I blogged about all the food mistakes I made, people would probably stop reading haha. It's definitely entertaining though!
ReplyDeleteI can't think of any food mistakes, but share your weakness for chips and ice cream as well as your dislike of pickles! I don't even like them in relish form, but have found that they're really good when they're fried...imagine that! :)
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Ha! I love that you ate half of the tube before you gave up. I would definitely do the same thing. I wish I had a food mistake to confess but I just can't think of anything!
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I love chips too, but chocolate is my ultimate weakness! I love your ruffled top...so pretty! Great thrifted items!
ReplyDeleteOh man, I wish I could help you eat that. I love pickles. I don't think I've ever made a food mistake of that kind... except for a couple of times I tried buying something I thought would taste good, but turned out to be horrible (like store-bought baba ghanoush, for example. Yuck.)
ReplyDeletesince I pretty much always read the labels to know everything, I'm not familiar with this problem. btw, I don't buy chips :P I eat them maybe once a year because my boyfriend wants them. I just decided I don't need chips and it wasn't hard to let them go.
ReplyDeletebtw, I love the beautiful lilac top you're wearing!
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That is a pretty strange flavor. WEll, at least you know. My food mistake was Molly Moo's salted caramel. I know everyone else likes it, but it hit the wrong spot for me :O(
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Mmmm, I love dill pickles and think those chips sound yummy! I'm sure I've made plenty of food mistakes but can't recall any while I'm typing this. I do know I give my hubby a hard time because he's always bringing home the wrong thing from the store.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of doing dumb stuff and not reading...I was at the new Safeway last week waiting to use the bathroom and I was in the men's room! haha I was inside the bathroom and wondering how come there was only one stall. Then I realized when a man stepped out and saw me standing there. LOL I felt so stupid!
I JUST made a food mistake on Mother's Day while making a bunch of new recipes for my mom. I accidentally got cilantro instead of parsley for a pasta...ugh I was so annoyed... Funny though, I wish I woulda made your mistake because my mom LOVES dill pickle flavored chips! We had some before of a different brand that was limited time and she laughed with every chip because she thought it was so crazy/funny how much it tasted like real pickles! :)
ReplyDeleteI think pickle chips are pretty funny. I actually like them, though, however weird they may be.
ReplyDeleteOne time I popped a salt water taffy into my mouth, thinking it was berry-flavored, since it was reddish. Instead, it was cinnamon, which is the worst fake flavor ever. My eyes filled with tears and I started gagging and laughing and my husband asked what flavor it was. All I could choke out was "Tastes like crying."
Love the detail on that cute top!
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I do like pickles but I don't think I'd like them flavoring my potato chips! That sounds like a really strange combination.
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my big food blunder was when my husband and i first started living together. i had just gotten into the hello kitty online beta (haha) and was into playing it. i had been making dinner and put chicken into the oven, then totally got lost in the game. i didn't notice the burning chicken until 4 hours later.
ReplyDeletei also left my house once to go out with a friend. i got to her house and started talking about how i was going to make potatoes for dinner that night. then i realized i left the oven on. with potatoes in it. but they turned out perfectly.
anyhow, this cardigan is very cute on you. i love the pastels - very pretty with your hair color and skin tone!
Chips are totally my weakness too. And I think that can looks like limes! I have made food mistakes in fairly authentic ethnic restaurants, though I can't think of a good example right now.
ReplyDeleteI like your take on the Picasso piece! The ruffled shirt is lovely!
Boy can I relate...It turns out caviar is raw fish eggs..I just assumed someone would steam them or something...eww...hate!
ReplyDeleteOnce at a Chinese restaurant, I ordered something from the menu on the wall, the menu was in mandarin so I had no idea...Goodness me, they brought me tripe(intestines)with frog legs...Okay, next!
And the biggest one...Once at an Indonesian restuaurant my boyfriend made a blind order. From the barely English menu we thought it was meatball soup. It turns out it was actual cow testicles in a soup. Needless to say, I freaked out soon as that plate landed on the table. We left $20 bill and were out the door. Oreos with milk were the only dinner I had that night...LMAO!
I can totally relate. I have made several blunders but this one takes all! Once at an Indonesian restaurant, my boyfriend made a blind order (where you pick anything from non-English menu)From the waitresses bare English, we assumed it was meatball soup. Lo and Behold, it was actually cow testicles in a broth. Needless to say, I freaked out soon as that plate landed on the table. We left $20 and I pretend to be sick so we left. Oreos and warm milk were dinner that night. But I was laughing at my boyfriend the whole night...and to this day. Ewww!
ReplyDeleteyou have no idea how utterly happy it made me to hear that you made one of my recipes! I do a lot of cooking at home and Im so glad someone got to benefit from all my experimentation! How is your hubby doing? I am booked for my third jaw surgery this year and I am DREADING IT. Its so boring post surgery! I hope he is staying busy and entertained! Also, I have made MANY food mistakes. I often forget the baking powder in cakes if I am baking with another person.... and then i end up crying on the kitchen floor over a cake that looks more like a brick.
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i have definitely made food mistakes, especially shopping at the grocery! there are SO many choices! you even have to look at the orange juice carefully (some pulp, no pulp, lots of pulp, calcium) haha i picked up some maple bacon instead of regular bacon once. it happens to all of us.
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i actually really love dill pickle chips! but then again, i love pickles! i love your artistic interpretation. the ruffled shirt is so cute!
ReplyDeletehow pretty are you in your ruffled blouse. i wondered what kind of look you would create from theat painting. well done! doesn't french onion soup have french bread or croutons in it too? i make so many food mistakes. it would feel a novel to write them all.
ReplyDeletedid i write feel instead of fill? geez let's not talk about grammar mistakes
ReplyDeleteLove the ruffled top. My biggest food mistake is eating too much of it.
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