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October 15, 2006
You Must Have An Iguana
MR used to have to go to great lengths to buy turnip greens. He likes to eat them in his salads, as they're very nutritious, but they weren't in every store in the Canadian city where he used to live, so he would take a long bus ride across town to the only store that carried them. He took to calling in advance to make sure the turnip greens were there so he wouldn't waste half a day on a journey and come home empty-handed.
The produce guy at the store got used to Saturday morning phone calls from turnip green man. One day, upon confirming that turnip greens were in stock, he said to MR, "You must have an iguana."
Now that seemed like a non-sequitur.
"Uh, no..."
"Then what do you do with the turnip greens?"
"I eat them. In salads."
Apparently this option had never occurred to the produce guy. His main turnip green customers are people who have iguanas, because turnip greens are very well suited to iguanas' unusual nutritional needs.
I tried to use this entire interaction as proof that we should get an iguana. They're so cute!
MR is not convinced. The image of sharing a large turnip green leaf, Lady and the Tramp style, with a pet iguana, is not appealing to him.
But he still loves his turnip greens.
Posted by april at October 15, 2006 5:59 AM
Comments
Iguanas are cute! I had a friend who had one, and we (my boyfriend and I) would feed him when she was out of town. I remember thinking that the stuff we were feeding the iguana (which included kale and collard and other greens) looked pretty tasty. It's funny, a lot of people don't see such greenery as "people food" at all, but we all might do well to take a cue from the iguanas...
Posted by: annec at October 15, 2006 7:11 PM