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The Event That Wrecked My Life

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marttorn
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
Norway5211 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-04 03:00:57
August 04 2011 01:24 GMT
#1
Reading a certain blog pertaining to lettuce and subway recently has brought back memories. Memories of sheer pain.

Brazil, Ilha Grande. An island located just a few hours off the coast of Rio De Janeiro. I was just a wee lad, on a supposed vacation with my family. What we didn't know is that we got the crappy part of the island. No electricity in our hut, poor sleeping conditions, fungus growing on the walls and leaky roofs. The only way I survived two weeks was because of the exotic drink known as Guarana. Oh how amazing it was/is, for the most part only available in south america/anywhere in the world, l2import nub. Also, I was like 9, not like I could leave the island anyway. I was thousands of miles from my beloved game consoles and TV at home...

Either way, one day the family headed off to one of Ilha Grande's only notable attractions: A large ass beach. Not only was it a large ass beach, there were large asses at the beach. But this is irrelevant, as remember, I was only 9. Girls were still cootie filled monsters, and I certainly didn't care if they had bigger asses. Though I doubt women would try to make themselves look attractive to a pale 9 year old Norwegian boy anyway. Hm. This is irrelevant, back to the story.

It had been a long day at the beach, and as I had refused to put any sun protection of any sort whatsoever on, I had gotten several severe sunburns and was like "FUCK U MOM Y U NO GIVE ME SUN PROTECTIONWTFAAAHHH". Also, I had not eaten the whole day.

But by the end of the day, we got to a small café-ish kinda thingy outside of the beach, the point is, they had fries. I fucking love fries. And I did back then too. So my father was nice and just kind of thought "fuck it, french fries dinner it is."

Several minutes later, we had been joined by my cousin, Eric (approx. 18 years old). Eric didn't speak English or Norwegian, and I didn't speak portugese, so there were sure to be misunderstandings.

Now, before I inform you of what happened in the end, when my juicy beautiful fries arrived, you have to understand one simple thing.

I fucking HATE ketchup.

Yes. YES. If I could remove one thing from existence, what would it be? War? NO. FUCKING KETCHUP. Images of tomatoes haunted me when I was a child, causing me to drop out of school due to night terror. Now that we have this clarified, let's move on.

It was in my sight. I could see the waiter bringing over a sizable bowl of fries to our table. My eyes watered up. Truly, this was the meaning of life. My father, however, said that as I probably wasn't gonna be able to eat all that myself (saying "challenge accepted" didn't help either), I'd have to share with Eric.

This is where it all goes to slow motion. Looking at Eric, I saw his lively brazilian eyes switch over to a very red bottle of thick liquid matter standing at the center of the table. I recognized what the bottle contained, and I shivered at the prospect... Surely... no... it could not be... If only Eric spoke Norwegian, I would of, using my most intimidating 9 year old voice, told him to get his hands away from the fucking ketchup bottle, or I would slit his throat with a french fry and have him choke on SALT. YES. SALT.

My father was busy talking to somebody... I dunno, he was probably chatting up the natives. Anyway, Eric grabbed the ketchup bottle, opened it and...

Eric turned to me and said something in portugese. I had no fucking idea what it meant, of course (I think he was trolling me), but whatever it was I should of responded with "NO YOU FUCKWIT GET AWAY FROM MY FRIES" because what proceeded to occur traumatized me forever more.

So there I sat. With red, goopy, disgusting fries. My day ruined, my week ruined, my vacation ruined, my life? Ruined.

There is no TL;DR summary to express the pain I have put out on display in this blog.

If I truly cared, I could proof read this and make it all grammatically correct and stuff. Haha! No thanks, I'll save that for my creepy stalker letter- Ehm, my creepy... eh... whatever.

I hope everybody who reads this can reflect on the pain I must of felt.

Thank you. <(*.*<) (>*.*)>

<(*.*)> v(*.*)v ^(*.*)^

edit: my half brazilian-up bringing eludes me! It's portugese not Brazilian (O_o) fixed

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bonifaceviii
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada2890 Posts
August 04 2011 01:32 GMT
#2
I agree dude, ketchup blows

Fuck that guy
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prototype.
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada4215 Posts
August 04 2011 01:35 GMT
#3
I wish I could speak brazilian.
( ・´ー・`)
GTPGlitch
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
5061 Posts
August 04 2011 01:41 GMT
#4
lol.

Do you want some ketchup with that?
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Melchior
Profile Joined January 2011
United States112 Posts
August 04 2011 02:11 GMT
#5
On August 04 2011 10:35 prototype. wrote:
I wish I could speak brazilian.

You mean Portuguese (or at least Brazilian Portuguese)?
StorkHwaiting
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States3465 Posts
August 04 2011 02:14 GMT
#6
lol I love this story 5/5
Fontong
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States6454 Posts
August 04 2011 02:17 GMT
#7
Ketchup is disgusting. Have you ever read the ingredients list on heinz ketchup? One of the main ingredients is high fructose corn syrup.
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prototype.
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada4215 Posts
August 04 2011 02:19 GMT
#8
On August 04 2011 11:11 Melchior wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 04 2011 10:35 prototype. wrote:
I wish I could speak brazilian.

You mean Portuguese (or at least Brazilian Portuguese)?

That's the joke.
( ・´ー・`)
The KY
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom6252 Posts
August 04 2011 02:29 GMT
#9
On August 04 2011 11:17 Fontong wrote:
Ketchup is disgusting. Have you ever read the ingredients list on heinz ketchup? One of the main ingredients is high fructose corn syrup.


Have you ever read the ingredients on a whole bunch of things? Most food that isn't just pure fruit, veg, or meat starts to sound pretty nasty once you get down to it's component parts...
Enervate
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1769 Posts
August 04 2011 02:32 GMT
#10
Ketchup is delicious. You gotta go to a good burger joint and get homemade ketchup. Or make it yourself. But I'm too lazy to do that.
Ingenol
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States1328 Posts
August 04 2011 02:51 GMT
#11
Haha, epic story. Firstly, though, they speak Portuguese in Brazil.

On August 04 2011 11:17 Fontong wrote:
Ketchup is disgusting. Have you ever read the ingredients list on heinz ketchup? One of the main ingredients is high fructose corn syrup.


I don't like Ketchup either, but you should know that table sugar is 50:50 fructose:glucose, whereas HFCS (or "corn sugar" as it is now often being called) is 55:45 fructose:glucose, so they are almost exactly the same thing. Don't get me wrong, fructose is very bad for you, but just be wary that regular sugar has nearly the same amount of fructose as HFCS.
GigaFlop
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United States1146 Posts
August 04 2011 02:52 GMT
#12
I feel your pain. My pet peeve is mustard and mayonaise. I hate both of them with a passion, which is one of the reasons I use to justify the more expensive burgers at a fast food place - becuase I can shamelessly ask for mayo and mustard to not be added. However, there is only one exception to my rule. That would be the small amount of mayo that a local pizzeria puts on their chicken BLT's, which are one of my favorite sammiches. EVER.
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XXGeneration
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States625 Posts
August 04 2011 03:02 GMT
#13
I used to like salted fries and abhorred ketchup, but I've open my mind and now I enjoy both! :D

Actually now it's a dilemma because I don't know which to choose D:
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swanized
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Canada2480 Posts
August 04 2011 03:23 GMT
#14
god I hate ketchup
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flowSthead
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
1065 Posts
August 04 2011 03:30 GMT
#15
I like ketchup, but not on fries. I can relate about one little thing ruining your life though. Happens to me all the time. 5/5
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sob3k
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States7572 Posts
August 04 2011 03:32 GMT
#16
reporting in to defend ketchups honor
In Hungry Hungry Hippos there are no such constraints—one can constantly attempt to collect marbles with one’s hippo, limited only by one’s hippo-levering capabilities.
OmniEulogy
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada6600 Posts
August 04 2011 03:54 GMT
#17
lol I hate ketchup as well. However my story revolves around a hotdog in my childhood and some ketchup a bit past the expiry date.... my taste buds will never be the same T.T
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Kashll
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States1117 Posts
August 04 2011 04:04 GMT
#18
Man I feel for you. Ketchup totally sucks. What a fucking douche.
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
August 04 2011 04:42 GMT
#19
I loved the story, after the introduction I thought someone would get hurt or something.

I hate ketchup too. Mayonnaise / mustard / chili sauce ftw.

5/5
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jdseemoreglass
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States3773 Posts
August 04 2011 06:10 GMT
#20
oh my god...

How can you people all be hating on ketchup? Ketchup is fucking amazing.
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