Yesterday it was one of our member's last day in the lab. As is tradition, the person who is leaving makes a small party him/herself. (I found this strange; shouldn't other people celebrate by throwing you a party? Guess not...) We had a very nice lab picnic, food courtesy of the member of the lab leaving. I tried a little bit of everything at the picnic, but everyone kept on insisting that I try Roquefort cheese. I was no chicken, so I slathered a portion on my bread and took a decent-sized bite. That was when I noticed my PI with camera poised ready for a reaction. Then my taste buds sent signals to my brain indicating that I had mold in my mouth. I paused in chewing and my salivary glands kicked in trying to drown out the taste. Against my natural reaction, I quickly chewed the bread and swallowed. With my eyes slightly watering, I looked up and everybody was laughing. I don't like bleu cheese to begin with and this special "cheese" (someone said Roquefort is not cheese, I quite agree.. I suppose it's an acquired taste) was yuck-O! I also found something I liked at the picnic although I don't remember their names anymore. Directly translated from German, they are hedgehog berries. They look like grapes with small harmless spikes on the skin and tasted of kiwi and the appearance of the gut reminded me of passionfruit. On second thought, perhaps they are passion fruits; I have never actually had fresh passionfruit. They were YUM... I had a whole handful!
After work, we went out to dinner and also to a biergarten to celebrate. This was my first real biergarten. The experience was good because I was with fun people. A biergarten consists of a lot of tables out in the open where people can drink (what else?) beer! This particular one was lit up with strings of incandescent bulbs. Under their cheery yellow, people smoked, talked and laughed.
LILY
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