quinoa, get outta my mind!

A few weeks ago, I tried quinoa. (Pronounced keen-wah). It's a rice like food packed with protein. Health food fanatics are crazy about this stuff. Put some brown sugar in it and it's like oatmeal. Use it as a rice substitute, put it with cream of chicken, blah blah blah. Well in a class I interpret, the teacher really wanted everyone to try it, and she included the interpreters. Me? Well, I didn't really want to, but curiosity got the best of me. I ate it. After each bite I had a GULP of water to wash it down. She served it plain. No sugar or cream for me! :( While eating it, I didn't think it was that bad. But that was the day I got sick. Needless to say, I won't be eating it ever again.

Here's why. While I was sick, the only thing that I could think of was quinoa. Quinoa. QUINOA. After that, barf. I'd be feeling a little better and then BAM... quinoa. Bleah. It makes me cringe even now. I expressed my feelings about quinoa to my family and how it keeps popping into my head, and their reply? "Well just don't think about it." Easier said than done! I even prayed about it, to have it removed from my daily thoughts. But that's all I can think about! The sick little beads of quinoa running down the back of my throat. The bland taste of nothingness. To chew on it is like eating little baby birdie's eyeballs. Yeah, sick, right? YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO EAT IT and then BARF it up! Even know, after feeling better... quinoa pops into my head and instant pebble skin. The hair on the back of my neck stands and I start to sweat. Quinoa get out of my mind... please!!! Do you feel sick now? Yeah, me too. Sorry.