just leave it alone

somethings should just be left alone...like mozzarella cheese. i went grocery shopping the other day and bought some cheese. i like my pasta. so, i made some spinach and ricotta tortellini. i had a nice Sockarooni sauce on it. i was ready to go. i sprinkled some cheese over my piping hot pasta so it could melt its cheesy goodness all over my dinner. i picked off a shred of cheese and ate it. it was fucking nasty. i love mozzarella cheese. most people do. it was just...ugh. then i looked at the package. i had accidentally picked up Kraft Free cheese. fat free. what the fuck is the point of that?

it's like when i made this red velvet cake and it called for buttermilk. i went to the store and they had fat free buttermilk. it just seems wrong. i, of course, didn't buy it, but it seemed a silly idea. especially, since ingredients like that are meant to add flavor to a dish and fat free things are notoriously flavorless...well, they're not exactly flavorless, they just deeply stray from the original intent for the palate. somethings you realize are not the healthiest things to eat, but you figure you'll swim an extra lap or two if only to eat that which may be fattening, but is thoroughly delicious.

anyway, the damage had been done. there was now this nasty-ass cheese oozing its ruinous, fat-free flavor all over my tortellini. i choked down, maybe, a third of it before i had to just leave it alone.

bastards.