The Broccoli Chip Effect....

Let's talk Broccoli chips

now if you are a normal person you will look at this painting

with a sort of horrified fascination that these things exist in the world

a normal reaction is...

they can't taste good

not on your sweet Nelly am I eating them

or in what universe do you think they are making it onto my plate

dear Phantom Steve's reaction was ...

cool can we get them to try... can we .... I think they will be awesome

seriously that is what she said

I pointed out that the same brand of banana chips had not been a winner

but relented as I was still on a high from finding the cereal that I talked about in the last post

so they ended up in the basket

and were duly taken home for Phantom's snacking pleasure

Now Phantom is actually one of the most brillantly stupid people you will ever meet

she has a monster IQ and a freaky brain that does weird and wonderful things

but seems unable to grasp just how bad a broccoli chip could be

I mean seriously

would you eat something that looked like this for anything other than a dare????

Fifty bucks, a pile of chocolate and a weekend with George Clooney

wouldn't be enough to get me to try these suckers

but Phantom and Sinus are either crazy brave or crazy stupid

or maybe a bit of both

because the packet is opened and we are met by the unmistakable waft

of fish food

and not the mild kelpy smell, but the rotting in the sun kelpy smell

these things smell nasty

one whiff and my lips are clamped so tight they couldn't be pried open by the jaws of life

but still Phantom and Sinus eat one.... 

I actually thought Sinus teared up a little bit it was so bad 

but he manfully got it down and declared them the worst thing in the history of the world

Phantom gamely hung onto her poker face for all of 30 seconds

before bolting to the kitchen bin to spit it out

and spent the next ten minutes trying to scrub the taste from her tongue

while shooting me dirty looks, as I was , by this stage,

laughing so hard that I was having trouble breathing

I really regret not having the camera out... 

it would have been a youtube sensation let me tell you

Even more exciting is that I now have the ultimate weapon in my mum arsenal

in the war against teenager-dom

the threat of broccoli chips is being used at each and every opportunity

to great evil effect... 

and just the sight of the box is reducing both Phantom and Sinus to my slaves

which they totally deserve by the way... 

the scales have finally tipped in my favour

and I am mad with the power of it all ...

My domination of the house is not quite complete though

as any sign of any box makes my mutt, Mushu think he is getting a treat

mainly because he is alarmingly stupid and has the memory span of a goldfish, 

so even if we had given him a try of them he would have forgotten what they tasted like 

about two minutes after throwing them up

but he is cute and cuddly and is too gentle a soul to be tortured by such horribleness...

Someone who totally gets how sweet he is , is my friend Von

 she has done the most beautiful painting of him

how wonderful is this

she has caught his eyes so perfectly

check out her post about it here ...

I love it so much.... so a huge public thank you to my friend

Happy Paint Party Friday to all

I am so looking forward to being able to catch up on what you have been up to

head over here to see what other painting goodness is on show... xx

this week I have been back from my studio break 

and here is what I have been up to...

A post over at Dion Dior for the When Artists Cook series

Cereal Killer....

Trevor the Pocket Deity....