Question of the Day!

Artificial sweetener of any kind will for sure ruin any dish for me, big or small. If you know how it feels to have brain fog to the point of not being able to think or mentally process the world properly, and if you know what it feels like to experience pain in the very neural pathways running throughout your body, then you know what artificial sweeteners do to me.

One ingredient that will ruin a meal, besides food poisoning or any topic that you do not want to have over food, is an impromptu "intellectual discussion" amongst friends or family members regarding a topic on which they strongly disagree. Rather than agree to disagree like grown-ups, they seek to convince the other person to see things from their point of view -- which the other person most definitely does not. This results in a long, circular discussion that typically also results in heightened emotions and no satisfying resolution. It's exhausting, and I have now taken to excusing myself from the area as soon as these fruitless conversations start to turn circular.