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Default These shallots are killing me!

On 10/15/2014 8:21 AM, Janet wrote:
> In article >, says...
>>
>> Now there is no doubt in my mind that when shallots get old, their heat
>> increases tremendously! I cut up a shallot from the CSA package that I got
>> two weeks ago. When I first got them, they were mild and sweet. But this
>> one is killing me! I cut one up for salad a few days ago and it was much
>> hotter than when I first used them but this one is a total sinus cleanser.
>> OMG!
>>
>> Alas, there is no way to tell by looking at them. I knew how old they were
>> because I knew when I got them. But it still looked perfectly fine. I
>> guess from now on I have to use them up within a few days of getting them.

>
> Julie, why don't we all just fast-forward to the day after your hair
> analyst/pet psychic/doctor tells you that you're close to death from
> CSA vegetables, so we can all be excused from your weekly CSA problems.
>
> We all know what's coming.. the inevitable CSA rejection by Angela and
> Somebody, the weird medical symptoms, the trash tossing, the not
> complaining to the manager, the hospital death bed.
>
> Let's just forget it all and get back to real life stuff about raccoons
> and mailboxes. You know it makes sense.


You know a person has no life at all when she's resorting to posting
about a member of the allium family making her eyes water.
Golly. Perhaps she should alert the media.