Green Snooties. Not What It Sounds Like.

I know, I know, settle down. Last Thursday, the weather turned really nice and I got a jones for green food (anybody remember Cera the triceratops from LAND BEFORE TIME? "I'll find my own greeen foood!") … I lost my place. Oh, yeah–I got a jones for green food, so I hitched up the buckboard and hauled home a bedload of stuff.

Joanna Foreman has been recommending "green smoothies"–mixtures of raw veg and fruit and liquid run through a blender. So I decided I'd try it.

You can use anything, but you're "supposed" to use more greens than fruit. Here was mine:

kale
spinach
parsley
celery
carrots
banana (skin removed)
(also discarded. don't just take the skin off and then put it in the blender, too. just sayin'.)
sugared strawberries
apple juice

Day 1:  Charlie says, "What's that?" When I told him, he laughed.

Day 2:  Charlie says, "I'm having an egg. Want one? You're just eating that?"

Day 3:  Charlie says, "I guess you don't want anything else."

Day 4:  Charlie says, "I might try a little of that."

Day 5:  Charlie says, "You're tired of it? I kind of liked it. How about making some more?"

So now we're both drinking them. And the reason he laughed on Day 1 is that he used to know, as he put it, "this yuppie couple" who drank ones made out of fruit. He thought they were appropriately called "snooties".

WRITING PROMPT: How does your main character feel about green food?

MA