Unusual Food Pressure

I ate yeast today.
I still don't really understand why.


It was a beautiful evening, and I had plenty of energy after the game, so I rode my bike to visit my pseudo-great-aunt in Blate. She is a sweet and wonderful woman that always forces me to eat things. Though, usually along the line of cookies or something.

Today, she was eating a hotdog and mayo. If I understood correctly (and i think that I did) there was no food at the house and Darinka was at the store. So she was eating a hotdog. Ok- normal. No problem. She also kept mentioning the yeast on the counter. Ok, not unusual. We don't always have too much to talk about, seeing as we cannot speak each others languages, so I figured she was just pointing things out. But she kept bringing up this yeast (in Slovene: Kvas).

Ok- no problem, I can talk about yeast. I tried to explain that in the US, it's in powder form and not in the butter-like packaged solid as it is here. She then broke a bit of it off and gave it to me. Ok, no problem. It's the consistency of plato and smells exactly like the yeast after you've put it in the water, but before mixing it with flour. She keeps saying that it's healthy. Yeah, good, of course it's not unhealthy... but she wont let it go. Then I realize that she wants me to eat the yeast. She wants me to eat this plato-like clump of single celled organisms in my hand. She wont let it go.

So I eat the yeast.


I ate the yeast.

Not so bad, really, but should the situation arise... I still recommend that you fake it.