As my readers probably know, I cannot waste anything. The
other day I went to the pet store and bought some rabbit stuff, but the
container of what I thought were rabbit treats turned out to actually be ferret
treats. I didn’t discover this until opening it, so there was no returning it.
The treats were just peanut butter-flavored yogurt, so I thought what the heck,
I’ll just eat them myself. The only scary thing in the list of ingredients was “artificial
flavor,” but since they were peanut butter flavor, I did not think it would be
my nemesis, vanillin. So yes, I ate the ferret treats. They were really, really
tasty and I ate a bunch of them, then I got cranky and unreasonable, couldn’t
sleep last night, and couldn’t concentrate at work today. That is what happens
to me when I eat fake vanilla flavor, and it had that addictive quality fake
vanilla always has for me. If I were a superhero, vanillin would be my green
kryptonite. But I never imagined I would get vanillin poisoning from pet
treats! So as if you needed another reason not to eat things intended for other
creatures, remember they might have ARTIFICIAL FLAVOR in them.
Famous Hat
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