Lamenting Potato

I think most people have certain foods that they know they shouldn't eat. Most people, by the time they're old enough to pay attention to how their body reacts, learn that some things produce...unpleasant side effects. For me, one of these such foods, is potato. It's tragic really, potato is soo tasty! Especially home fries. I'm a sucker for home fries.

But sadly, no matter how little I eat of it...the unpleasant side effects attack. Perhaps it's made worse by EXPECTING it (remember that post on perception?), but it doesn't take long for them to start. And, even more unfortunate, the side effects are obvious to everyone else too. It's not just a slight stomach ache, or headache or something...it's that dreaded, most embarassing, most uncontrollable (except by not eating it!), side effect; gas. Potent gas.

I really should know better, but I suppose it wouldn't be a weakness then. Plus, hope springs eternal. I'm always hoping this time, I'll be able to eat some and it will be ok. Sometimes, yes, it works. But I'm not sure it really does, I'm just not paying attention to it. Because those times...I don't really know that It didn't bother me, I just don't remember if it did or not.

I've been spending the weekend with friends whose diet consists of things that I really shouldn't eat. Usually when I visit friends I don't tell them this, because, well, it's just so much easier not to make a problem out of it. It's not going to KILL me or jeapordize my health severely, but when it all adds up... I'm still not going to say anything, not now when there's only a meal or two left. I just find it most unfortunate that potato's are so tasty...

Oh potato
Why must you be
So tasty I just can't ignore it

O potato
Why can't you be
Disgusting, revolting, and repelling

O potato
I wish I could be
Indifferent to your starchy goodness

O potato
You're so mean to me
But at least I get to share it! :-p