I was reading this post by Ash and it made me chuckle 'cos she says she couldn't eat a trifle that she'd spent ages making as it had a gelatine in it.
And you know what? Gelatine frigging pisses me off! I bring loads of stuff home and then get told by one of the sisters or mum that I can't eat it. Me being me I'm too lazy to exchange/refund the item and end up throwing the stuff away, it's happened to me so many times.
Last time I bought some Actimel and Bob tells me it's got gelatine in it just when I was about to drink it, I would have, only that Mum heard her and told me off.
Anyway gelatine always reminds me of an incident that happened with one of my cousins when he was younger. He was at a hospital with his parents (playing the waiting game) when all of a sudden nature calls and he needs the toilet. His Mum decides to assist him.
When he's sitting on the crapper he says ...
"Mum I want to eat some chocolate!"
"What? There's no chocolate here, hurry up! Let's go"
"No, from the machine - it says chocolate ..."
His Mum looks at the dispensing machine on the wall
"This chocolate is too expensive and I haven't got any money. Hurry up ..."
My cuz starts bawling frantically
"I want a chocolate! I want a chocolate! I want a chocolate! Why don't you get some money from Daddy?" (What do you expect? He has a family of four and was a very spoilt kid)
His Mum then tries a different approach
"No, we can't have this chocolate"
"WHY NOT?!! AAARGH"
"BECAUSE IT'S GOT GELATINE IN IT!"
It's only then does he calm his ass down and forgot about the chocolate. When he told me this story we were about 15 years old at the time, and he said it was only now that he realised why his Mum had said that to him.
Because the thing on the wall was a condom flavoured dispensing machine!
haha! that made me laugh :) before I even read the reason why she lied to him!
OMG! TOOOOO Funny! I so would not have figured that out ha ha hahah