I know, I know, settle down. Last Thursday, the weather turned really nice and I got a jones for green food (anybody remember Cera the triceratops from LAND BEFORE TIME? “I’ll find my own greeen foood!”) … I lost my place. Oh, yeah–I got a jones for green food, so I hitched up the buckboard and hauled home a bedload of stuff.
Joanna Foreman has been recommending “green smoothies”–mixtures of raw veg and fruit and liquid run through a blender. So I decided I’d try it.
You can use anything, but you’re “supposed” to use more greens than fruit. Here was mine:
- kale
- spinach
- parsley
- celery
- carrots
- banana (skin removed)
- (also discarded. don’t just take the skin off and then put it in the blender, too. just sayin’.)
- sugared strawberries
- apple juice
Day 1: Charlie says, “What’s that?” When I told him, he laughed.
Day 2: Charlie says, “I’m having an egg. Want one? You’re just eating that?”
Day 3: Charlie says, “I guess you don’t want anything else.”
Day 4: Charlie says, “I might try a little of that.”
Day 5: Charlie says, “You’re tired of it? I kind of liked it. How about making some more?”
So now we’re both drinking them. And the reason he laughed on Day 1 is that he used to know, as he put it, “this yuppie couple” who drank ones made out of fruit. He thought they were appropriately called “snooties”.
WRITING PROMPT: How does your main character feel about green food?
MA
Stephen Tremp
March 24, 2011 at 9:59amI gave ny characters a wide array of eating habits from the junk food junkie to the heallth food nut. No greem snootie smoothies though. We make a lot of fruit smoothies here. Sometimes we do add grees to them but basically stick with the fruit ones.
Marian Allen
March 24, 2011 at 4:11pmNow that I know how good smoothies are, I’ll probably make some fruit ones this summer. 🙂 The green ones are really good with fruit in them. They’re addictive!
Helen Ginger
March 23, 2011 at 3:54pmMy main character is a vegetarian. She knows more about that than I do.
Marian Allen
March 23, 2011 at 5:28pmOh, Helen! I’ll bet your main character would love green smoothies! 🙂
Bodie P
March 23, 2011 at 3:15pmHave to say your recipe and snooty couples than it did a regrettable visual element in Jackass 2.5 (I know, I know, if you watch a movie that includes the word “Jackass” in its title you get what you deserve, but it was late, and I have an adolescent son, and under those conditions I sometimes show an appalling lack of taste.) Anyhow, this little effort, which I believe is the out takes from the “real” Jackass movie, which we have to assume shows the best stuff, has a strong vomit motif, underscored and reinforced by a pee and penii leitmotif. The “green snooties” put me in mind of the sight of grown men vomiting. Sorry. I’ll go away now.
Marian Allen
March 23, 2011 at 5:28pmEwwwwwwwww! Okay, my turn for a gross-out: The day after The Exorcist had its first television showing, the cafeteria lady at work served pea soup. Not many takers.
Bob Sanchez
March 23, 2011 at 3:02pmI thought snooties were the people who looked down on green food.
Marian Allen
March 23, 2011 at 5:26pmCharlie thought it was people who looked down on people who weren’t cool enough to eat green. 🙂