I'd gladly trade your pumpkin spice with my cumin floor disaster...
Last Saturday, while I was trying to refill my ice cube trays, a brand new, full bottle of cumin got knocked over, fell off the counter, tumbled to the tile floor, then proceeded to explode. My bare feet, and legs were peppered (<- spice pun) with glass. The two freezer drawers I had pulled out (and placed on the floor, while I was transferring the ice cube trays to and from the counter space) were in the blast zone... So, the ice I had still was (perhaps) sprinkled with glass shards, the ice cube trays that has just been filled, may have been sprinkled with glass shards, and I had to figure a way to get myself out of the kitchen with bare feet through all(that)spice and broken glass (I threw a towel down, and used that to protect my feet while I made my exit to the door). After cleaning the floor, I had to dump everything, wash everything, and hope that I got all the glass out everything. Needless to say, my language was a bit... Salty (Thank goodness my poor neighbors don't speak English... otherwise, they're getting a great lesson in practical swearing).
Now, for those who don't know about cumin, its used in salsa, and other Mexican food. While it tastes good, it has a rather distinctive smell (reminiscent of body odor)... I liken it to the smell of my grandfather after he had spent all afternoon, in summer (>~100 F in the sunlight), roofing a house (he was a carpenter). It's pungent to say the least.. Despite my best efforts to clean the apartment, it smells like BO, and I'm 100% certain that somethyme between now and when I move out of here, there will be at least one shard of glass that I somehow missed, that I will find with/in my foot). Now why it makes salsa taste so good is a question that will likely never be answered... I know, I tried...
Q: "Why does cumin smell so bad, but make food taste so good?"
A: "42."
You see, the universe didn't implode, as you're reading this now. So that can't be the answer.
