I should have known something was wrong when saw their clientele.
I've eaten a lot of salsa in my time....gallons of it...no, make that tanker truck loads....but the salsa I had Saturday evening at Nico's restaurant left me speechless. Literally.
We were seated, ordered our food, then started the pre-Mexican food meal ritual of chowing down on the free chips and salsa. It didn't take long for me to realize something was wrong. It felt like something was under my tongue, only there wasn't. Hmmm....weird.
Then I tried to talk, and boy wath I thrprithed. My wordth came out minuth the th thound. My tongue wath having a thpaz attack. Hard ath I tried, I couldn't make my mouth work right. Thome bitch!
By the time I got home my thpeech wath almothed unintelligible. (I notithed many around me were ecthtatic. Bathardth!) What the...?
Thunday wath worth. The thene would have been complete if I had jutht flopped around on the floor and drooled. On Monday I went to my doctor and told him what happened to me. "Told" wath probably the wrong word. It wath more like tharadth. (You know, where you have to act thingth out.) Thure enough, he diagnothed it ath thum thort of food allergy and gave me a thot in the butt-tock.
Today things are a bit better, although as the day rolls along I feel a bit of a relapth coming. *thigh*
Thith thuckth!
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Tho it wath the thaltha? Sorry, I just had to see thaltha in print.
ReplyDeleteOuch, another reason why I don't eat Mexican food. I hope you found out what in the salsa you are allergic to. Food allergies are not funny, well they are when you tell them, but you might want to carry one of those eppie thingies.
They say an ingredient in the salsa was the most likely culprit. Who knew?
DeleteHow interesting. I also love salsa. After experimenting with many brands on the grocery store shelf, I've settled on Baja Cafe/mild. If you have that where you live, you might give it a try. I wonder what you were allergic to.
ReplyDeleteI've had some salsa so hot I was speechless but, never a reaction like this. I hope you figure out what caused it.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I bet it wasn't easy to type this out. But it was worth it. It make me laugh.
I enjoy hot (spicy) food a lot, and never, knock on wood, thus far had one allergy. Hopefully you haven't developed an allergy to one of the biggies like tomatoes.
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty darn scary. And hilarious. But mostly scary!
ReplyDeleteI've even a lot of salsas, too. I did live in Mexico for a handful of years and even in Texas for a couple. But while I have had to take deep breaths and lots of cerveza, I've never had an allergic reaction.
ReplyDeleteYikes...that whole episode sounds very scary and could have been a lot worse than jutht what you dethcribed! It's one thing not to be able to talk, but right behind that is the "not be able to breathe."
ReplyDeleteAre you sure it was the salsa? Why would a relapse happen if you didn't eat more of the same salsa?
I still laughed, though. The way you described it was just too funny!
True Betina, it could have been a lot worse. And no, all indications are it was the salsa, but I don't know that for a fact. Here it is Wed. morning and when I wake up I feel somewhat better, but then things start to go downhill. I have some more meds coming today....we'll see if they can do the trick.
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