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How you can confuse ersatz wasabi with avocado after taking a hearty bite mystifies me.
by CaptainZapp 7y ago
How you can confuse ersatz wasabi with avocado after taking a hearty bite mystifies me.
- gwd 7y agoMany years ago I overheard a guy say that with his color-blindness, wasabi looks almost exactly like bean dip. He was at a party once, saw some chips, and a bowl of what he though was bean dip next to it. He took a chip, scooped out a nice dollop of "bean dip", and popped it in his mouth before anyone could react; only to discover that it as definitely not bean dip. Luckily, he said, he really likes hot things, so while it was quite a surprise, it wasn't as nasty a shock as it could have been. But yeah, I don't see how you could be confused after the first bite. Edit: Somewhere else quotes the article as saying that the amount she'd eaten was "about a size of a teaspoon". That sounds similar.
- elmolino89 7y agoExcept the situation where the patient lost both the sense of smell and taste it is impossible imho. Even then I suspect the bodily reaction would indicate something is wrong with that "avocado". Either we are dealing with a psychiatric patient with some strange food addiction or an idiot using wasabi to who knows, burn calories, clean the nose or rotten tooth/whatever. The wasabi-avocado mistake sounds bogus to me.