It’s summertime, which means, O frabjous day, I can put fresh mint into my home-brewed iced tea. Grab a few sprigs of mint from the plant on the back porch, toss into the pot of tea, steep, strain, chill. Mmmmm.
Except that while enjoying a cold glass of iced tea yesterday, I took a drink and noticed a distinctly non-tea foreign object in my mouth. I promptly spit it out, inspected it, and discovered that it was of the eight-legged variety. Yes, that’s right, I almost drank a spider.
Then I showed MrWhatsit and girlishly screamed for the next couple of minutes in a high-pitched voice that I suspect only the neighbor’s dog could hear. MrWhatsit agreed that this was “super gross” and was reinforced in his already-strong dislike of iced tea.
From now on, I guess I’ll wash off the mint before throwing it in the iced tea pot.
You know how people put a “TMI” warning on some threads? Well, I would like to propose a new warning to be attached to certain threads, the new warning would use the acronym “TMS”, meaning Too Much Spider.
THis is why it’s best to throw the mint in with bourbon insterad of tea. The alcohol will exterminate any unwanted critters while handily sterilizing them at the same time.
:eek: You got lucky. I knew an old lady who had something similar happen to her, only she swallowed a fly. It was a sad story. It set off a chain of events that culminated in her swallowing a horse.
