Berry-tarian

Hi my name is Jeanette; I LOVE strawberries and I hoard them. If I am at a wedding, a party, a dinner and there are strawberries present.. you can bet that I am there taking them and going back for seconds. Strawberries as a garnish are also subject to my obsession, once upon a time I took strawberries off of the top of a wedding cake (in my defense I was too enticed by the strawberries to notice that the white chocolate box that housed them was the cake.. and I LOVE cake!).



I have come the decision that I could very well be a Berrytarian. I could eat nothing but berries all day (this includes raspberries, blackberries as well but strawberries are my all time favorite). I'd probably have to work in some protein shakes, but that's cool because I can make them with strawberries.

Now, imagine my happiness when I got a job working at a hotel only to find that this place has a seemingly endless supplies of strawberries, even outside of strawberry season (also known as HELL). I can walk into our cafeteria and find a huge bowl of strawberries just sitting there for the taking. Chocolate covered strawberries constantly habitate the dessert fridge and they call my name. I always pretend like I am going to share the chocolate covered ones with Elizabeth, but she's not quick enough on the draw and I eat 5 and she eats 1. Often I will be eating my lunch and a huge tray loaded with bowls of strawberries and blueberries (I forgot to mention those above) will appear out the kitchen with rays of light from God (or Chef Paul). At that time I make an immediate move to stake my claim; I am always the first up but that COULD be because I knock people over on the way to be first. I find this normal, however I've discovered that other people do not. Apparently not everyone thinks that strawberries are the most delicious and wonderful fruit ever to be in existence in the Universe. Yes UNIVERSE! And not everyone thinks you should take all of the strawberries, and not everyone thinks that getting your turn at the strawberries is worthy of running people over.. what terrorists!

Also, I have found that it's not normal for people to imagine that somewhere in the hotel there is a large room filled with nothing but strawberries and to daydream about finding that room and eating them like this:



In reality they would be more smashed all over my face but I couldn't find a picture to depict this, note to readers DO NOT google images for 'strawberry face' it is not fruit related and it is not pretty.

I don't know what I was robbed of in my childhood to make me love strawberries so much. I also always feel like I DESERVE the strawberries more than anybody else and that I have a right to take as many as I want.

If I could only find that secret room here at the hotel... I'd eat my pay in strawberries and probably stay relatively thin. I suspect that soon I will get lured to this 'room' only to find my family, friends, and people who have been trampled by me waiting with letters about how much they love me.. they will say what they have to say and then I will say what I have to say.