Jeffrey Vanneste’s Personal Blog

The other day Rachel was home for lunch and was kind enough to make me some grilled cheese and tomato soup (one of my lunch favorites).  She left out some crackers for me to use in the soup.  I put a bunch into my soup and started the consumption.  To my surprise the soup tasted like lead paint.  More specifically, the crackers tasted like they were covered in lead paint.

So back story on this, the last time we had tomato soup Rach brought out the normal crackers for me and then a brand new box of Stoned Wheat Thins for her.  I gave her a hard time about spending money on fancy crackers when we had some perfectly fine normal crackers.  She said the 2 year old crackers smelled funny.  Well to prove her wrong I put some of the crackers into my soup and ate it more out of spite than anything.  I don’t remember the soup tasting that bad.

Fast forward to soup this week.  I think she knew that the crackers had soaked up the smell/flavor of the paint in our cupboards.  How far was I willing to take it?  Well, I put 9 of the frickin’ lead crackers into my soup.  It was likely the worst soup I have ever had.  You know those kids that died from licking the lead paint blinds?  That’s what I feel like.  The whole time I ate the soup Rach didn’t say a word.  When I finished I complained (a lot) that my soup tasted like lead paint.  Meanwhile, she finished her soup with her Stoned Wheat Thins.