Stories I like to tell

This one is about my friend Ciara, my favourite space cadet and one of my best friends. For years (8 or 9) Ciara was a hardcore vegetarian. No meat (obviously) also, no jellies, marshmallows, pringles (because they test on animals...true story) or anything that might have had a dead animal near it. Also, and this is pivital to the tale, Ciara hates mushrooms, hates them with a passion bordering on hysterical. So anyways, when Ciara was about 16, she was visiting her stepdad's family in Norway for the first time, her stepdad's mother does not speak a word of English and Ciara did not speak any Norweigan. So when Knut's mother offered to cook Ciara some food, there was much gesturing and miming, before Knut stepped in and explained in Norweigan that Ciara did not eat meat. Off went Mama Knut, and back she came with a big ol' plate of fried mushrooms.



And that was it.

It wasn't a mushroom stir fry and they weren't cooked with anything else. It was just mushrooms, fried up
I have to say, to Ciara's credit she ate the whole plate of "hidious hidious" (her words) mushrooms