I think I am doomed to be unhealthy. I never eat salad, I've never liked it since I was a kid and when I eat in a restaraunt and they give me a giant heap of salad (which they always do) I am forced to leave it behind and look like I've only eaten half my meal. Given I hardly eat fruit or vegtables this is not a recipe for great vitamin intake.

So a few days ago I was at the supermarket and decided to buy a porition of salad. Thinking maybe I could give it a go and maybe even learn to like it, or at least tolerate it. I finally got around to eating it today. To cut a short story shorter, it wasn't a success. For whatever reason the taste of salad is not just unpleasant, it actually makes me start to gag and almost vomit involuntarily. I barely got three or four mouthfuls into the salad portion before being forced to dump it in the bin.

Am I some kind of salad freak? I don't think I've ever met another person who has even disliked salad, let alone been made sick by the smallest taste of it. It just seems weird to have such a reaction to what most people seem to think is fairly tasteless and is like 90% water.

Well aside from eating salad, I also sent some time today in the library. I was reading a music magazine I'd bought from the campus shop a half hour ago. While I was reading some guy walks past the desk I'm sitting at and spots a girl he knows on the one behind me. So he comes over and has a chat with her. They're in the library of course and not wanting to disturb anyone they try to communicate in whispers. Except they're not really whispering, whispering is for talking to someone who is only inches away from you and they were standing a couple of metres apart at least. So they stood there talking at a more or less normal volume, only in a stupid raspy tone of voice. And they didn't just talk for a minute or so, they hung around talking about shit for half a goddamn hour. Half an hour. I constantly felt like turning aroud and saying: "Will you shut the fuck up! This is a fucking library and your retarded conversation is made doubly annoying by your apparent belief that talking in a raspy voice somehow makes you quieter, you stupid fuckheads."
Of course I was only reading a music magazine so I didn't really feel it was worth the trouble such an exclamation would have undoubtedly entailed, so I kept quiet.

i could live off of carrots and bananas. so if theres a carrot and banana salad you can concoct, give it a try.

and if you think thats bad, during lunch at school i just sit in the library and read whatever book i have with me, or write, and theres always the prep kids studying at a table nearby. always talking about teacher soandso being oh so amazing and how he/she said the most insightful thing and it really made them think about life and stuff and though they dont really understand what the teacher meant or how it applied to them it was really deep you know and they only hope that someday they can have that sort of experience to really be insightful about _stuff_ and maybe become a teacher to share knowledge about whats real in life. its enough to make a man kill.

Posted by jonc from 68.184.33.243 @ 05/01/2003 10:48 PM CST

Is it the lettuce?

Posted by Afterglow from 24.42.72.116 @ 05/01/2003 11:46 PM CST

My uni is supposed to be red brick (thats ivy league in america, I think) so you'd think I'd have that problem too. But nobody here is remotely inclined to work, and everyone complains about everything all day long.

Posted by Jon from 81.26.103.59 @ 05/03/2003 08:11 AM CST

You ain't eating the right salad. Please, attempt it with some spanish onion and dressing before dismissing it entirely!

I was never a lettuce fan, but my girlfriend's Caeser (I just know I spelt that wrong) salad changed my ways. It's not just salad -- it's bacon salad! Also served with spanish onions, a mayonnaise sauce consisting mostly of garlic, some dressing, and more bacon; it will change the most vomit-inducing lettuce into a delight.

Posted by yoshi from 129.94.6.29 @ 05/04/2003 08:01 AM CST

i second the caesar salad suggestion -- its a very lowest-common-denominator sort of salad, and its so full of grease, garlic and parmesan that you can barely taste the lettuce

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/04/2003 02:40 PM CST

I need to eat more salad alongside my one-piece meals (pizza etc). I've only been away for one week and I already look starved of vitamins.

Posted by Jon from 62.31.255.83 @ 05/05/2003 04:27 AM CST

I can't stomach salad either, so you're not alone. First or second bite and I'm yackin'.

Posted by auxois regal from 66.25.250.84 @ 05/05/2003 04:57 AM CST

maybe you guys are vegetable-intolerant

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/05/2003 03:34 PM CST

could always buy vitamins in capsule form if youre that concerned.

ps. is ex-kat this auxois person?

Posted by jonc from 68.184.33.243 @ 05/06/2003 02:42 PM CST

yes

Posted by mewse from 24.76.13.157 @ 05/06/2003 04:55 PM CST