Damn I just remembered these deep-fried mushrooms I ate at the Madisonville Texas Mushroom Festival in 2011 and they made me so sick that when my dad took me to TX Burger afterward, I ordered a Veggie Burger, and he got so mad at me. He asked me "are you becoming a 'veygen'" and I was like

just went to Haidilao Hot Pot for this first time and pulled a Sichuan pepper out of the broth and said in a Guy Fieri voice, "See this little bullet? It's a one-way train to flavor town."

my husband was telling me about how he accidentally developed Toy Story 3-esque empathy for the new Jack Black Steve Minecraft toy because he thought about what would happen if nobody bought them and they ended up in a landfill...
and it reminded me of a similar event in my life. W