Sufficient unto the day
A TikTok set off a firestorm in my house. They often do.
In the video that has gone a bit viral, British stars Joanna Lumley and Giles Brandreth confess that they both like baked beans cold from the tin.
I didn't think that was an earth-shattering revelation or even mildly weird. I didn't think it deserved the hushed, slightly guilty tone in which they confessed it to each other in that one episode of Gogglebox.
For I too like baked beans cold from the tin.
It turns out my husband didn't know this of me until I was plating up my dinner of pork tenderloin and dill pickle potato salad, and, feeling as though something was missing, I reached into the pantry for a can of British style baked beans. I opened it, scooped a big spoonful directly from the tin can onto my plate, and walked away toward the dining room to eat my dinner.
Like a civilized person.
The look on husband's face when I sat down suggested I was anything but civilized. Like I had just shoveled beans into mouth while hunched over the sink using a branch I found lying around as my utensil. He was having a Twilight Zone moment. A veil dropped. A flimsy set wall collapsed. He suddenly saw me in a new, even more feral light than he had before. He was looking for signs that I was a replicant. He was looking for my bindlestiff. He was waiting for a punchline that wasn't coming.
I said “Whud?” through a mouthful of potato salad.
Like a civilized person.
“You eat them cold from the can??”
“Yeah? I like a number of things cold. Like pie. Pies should always be cold.”
“What the? Since when?”
“Only always?”
“But what else? My god, what else!”
Okay he didn't say that exactly but his expression sure did.
I was enjoying this new form of entertainment with the dinner I made (which was awesome by the way but tell no one). Upping the levels of disbelief and horror with every reveal of my food-related preferences in temperature and texture that he just hadn't noticed this whole time. Because I am a civilized person, I made no comment on his eating habits. But I could. I COULD.
He may still not believe me, even after showing him the TikTok that proves I am not alone on the cold baked bean front, and that I am not just setting up a long con solely for my amusement.
I will confess - That is something I would do.
But I do just genuinely like cold beans.
With a fork.
Like a civilized person.
I don't think he's ready to hear I like to put an ice cube in my glass of milk, poor thing.
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