A little of what you fancy does you good...

[ailbhe]

Or, Why Ailbhe once ate a Whole Jar of Pickled Onions in One Go.

When I was pregnant with Linnea, a little over six years ago now, I had a mild inclination one day to eat a pickled onion.

"Rob," I said, "let's buy some pickles."

Rob shuddered visibly. He never does buy pickles, and rarely ate them, except in Sweden. And I only wanted one tiny pickled onion, so I didn't buy the jar.

A couple of days later I saw a jar in a shop, and picked it up. I thought I'd like one or two. But I put it down again, because I didn't want to store the other thirty little weeny onions in the fridge for three years and then throw them away.

And at the end of the week, I caved. I went and bought the jar of onions. I got a fork. I sat on my bed and opened the jar. I ate the onions straight from the jar; stab onion with fork, suck from fork, crunch, swallow-and-stab simultaneously, suck from fork, crunch, swallow-and-stab... and then the onions were all gone.

THEY TASTED SO GOOD. Nothing ever tasted that good before. For all I know, nothing has tasted that good since, though I wouldn't bet on that because Rob learned to cook a couple of years ago and he's very good at it.

Oh man those pickled onions tasted so good.

They were incredibly good. God. Oh wow.

Oh, ow.

Ow.

I spent the rest of the day curled up on the bed clutching as many parts of my abdomen as I could reach, whimpering "But they tasted so good!"

I've paid a lot more attention to mild inclinations to eat very specific foods, ever since.

Comments

[flybabydizzy.livejournal.com]

giggles in empathy!
Thank you for sharing

[1ngi.livejournal.com]

I really want a pickled onion now...

[annifa.livejournal.com]

hehe, I'm just wondering if you drank the vinegar/pickling stuff too. My mum does that.

[ailbhe]

Ew, no, that would be *gross*. In the way that eating a WHOLE JAR of pickled onions WITHOUT PAUSE isn't, you understand...

[annifa.livejournal.com]

*giggling*

A whole jar of pickled onions in one go is just...responding to a need, non?

;)

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[iuil.livejournal.com]

I ate an entire jar of pickled jalepenos when pregnant with Sorcha.

I don't remember the same after-effects though.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Crunchy, too. I get them in an olive mix from one of our favorite groceries.

[treadpath.livejournal.com]

I never got ill from eating them, but I do remember a somewhat scary bout of hormonal rage when I was pregnant and someone ate the LAST CRAB RANGOON. I suddenly realized that I very much wanted to stab this person with a fork, preferably in the eye. As a reward for not doing this, my husband took me to a Thai restaurant the next day and we sat in the parking lot for an hour waiting for it to open so we could buy two orders of crab rangoon for me to consume by myself, hunched over in the car like an animal.

I don't think I had ever had a crab rangoon before I started craving them during pregnancy. Very odd.

[hitchhiker.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry, but i laughed :)