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I was battling to think up something to write about today. Yesterday evening was fairly standard, home from work, dinner, watched a bit of CSI, read a bit and then to bed. Hardly interesting reading.

So I tweeted this morning and asked for ideas of something to write about. Cin suggested my most embarrassing or worst food memory and kindly shared hers to give me courage.

So, my most embarrassing food memory is actually on I have no recollection of. However, as the story has practically become family Lore, I know enough about the details to share it here.

When I was little, I’m talking 2 or 3 years old, we lived in Matetsi. We had an enormous veggie garden, and a wonderful chicken run built on the side of the hill. The chickens were more or less free ranging, but we did supplement their food with…um…chicken food and ground up egg shells. Each day, my Mum would take an old chipped enamel mug, dig it into the dusty golden chicken food and she and I (and sometimes my sister) would walk, slowly, to the chicken run. We’d be chatting about the trees and the birds and the chickens (I had a favourite I called Whitie). Mom would sprinkle the food around. Chickens came running for all corners of the pen. Then she’d going and collect the eggs, always leaving a bit of seed in the cup for me to sprinkle so I was ‘helping’. On the fateful day in question; Mum did the sprinkle-collect egg routine and I was ‘helping’. I assume that that day there must have been a lot of eggs or something because I got bored waiting. So I sat down in my pink dress and looked around to see what I could see. I saw KornKurls*. Except they weren’t KornKurls. They were in fact, chicken Kurls. Our chickens, thanks to the inclusion of egg shells in their diet have very white, um, doings. To my little mind, they obviously appeared to be KornKurls!

So there you have it. An embarrassing ‘food’ memory!

*KornKurls are a type of chips/crisps that we had. They are sort of air-puffed fingers that tasted like MSG and flavouring. I love them!

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