French fry update
People are demanding an update on the fries!
Here’s the latest:
age: 157 days old – that is, approximately 5.2 months; I bought them on June 22, 2007.
general appearance: color is still good, maybe somewhat darkened, but they appear to be ever so slightly shrunken. Perhaps all of the food content is now completely gone, or maybe there was none there to begin with. What we’re left with is still a mystery.
smell: no offensive odor, but in sniffing them more closely, I know I’ve smelled that fragrance before. Hmmm . . . déjà vu. It seems to register somewhere in my brain, maybe among the unclassified smells that I’ve encountered as I’ve walked through a newly constructed house . . . it seems to have an odd adhesive quality . . . I hope that I haven’t allowed any alien compounds into the olfactory regions of my brain where it can start boring a network of worm-holes.
Shiver. Uuugggh!
PS – Eureka! While photographing the fries I think I’ve identified the smell more precisely:
Play-doh®! or is it Silly Putty®?
Hmmm. This may explain a lot.