This shit is nuts.

I don't like change. I never have and I never will. The picture to the right is what I have for breakfast every morning during the work week - pistachio nuts and a diet Pepsi. (Nutrition police, shut your collective pie holes). It will take me generally three days to eat a bowl this size. I LOVE pistachios, but they must be the natural colored ones. I don't understand why anyone would want to eat the red ones. Red fingers and lips are the only extra things you get from the red dye and I haven't found that to be a good look since the Powdered Jello Craze of 1976.

Anyway, this morning I was getting ready for work and watching the news and I heard a story about how the nation's second largest pistachio processor is recalling 1 million pounds of the savory nuts due to the fact that they might be tainted with salmonella. Great.

So here I sit at my desk looking a heaping bowl of deliciousness and can not eat them. Well, I could, if I want to tempt a fever and non-stop diarrhea (yes, I thought about it). I don't smoke any more. I don't party like a rock star anymore. And now this. No pistachios. Seriously, this is going to throw off my whole day. Probably several. And as much as I love my Blue Diamond Wasabi & Soy Sauce almonds (they really are amazingly delish), my mornings will feel wrong until I can have my pistachios again. Geez, I sound old.

If you want to know more about the pistachio recall and the reason for my current angst, click here.