So this weekend my daughter wanted to try ramen. My son is not big on food
experimentation. He’s a teen and this
year he finally decided that he would branch away from cheeseburgers at sit
down restaurants. He’s branched out to
chicken strips. It’s a big move for him
so I’m applauding it.
My daughter, on the other hand, has been experimenting with
foods for a while now. She started
marginally earlier than my son, about four or five years ago. In case you don’t know, she’s a few years
older, so she’s only a little ahead of him.
About a month ago I took them to a Korean food court in our
area called ASSI. We are not in
agreement on how to pronounce it. While
there I got the bibimbab. Bibimbab, which I’ve seen spelled different ways, is
a bunch of different things. Basically,
it is rice, coupled with vegetables, a spicy soup, a fried fish, kimchee and
sometimes other things. It’s a lot.
To my kids’ credit they both tried it. But neither seemed especially in love with
it. I guess it has to grow on you. Now my daughter talks about craving kimchee
and wanting to go further in her Korean food experimentation. So this weekend we got ramen.
She had ramen with some vegetables and chicken flavor. Mine was chili flavored. Hers tasted like chicken and vegetables while
mine tasted like fire. I swear I could
feel it burning in my stomach.
Later that evening I told her that my stomach was very upset
and complaining. But instead of tossing
his opinions up he was “shouting through my south mouth.” To this both she and I started cracking up.
I’ve never heard the phrase before so it was new and a
surprise to both of us. I know that
there are hundreds of people on this planet, possibly thousands, and that some
of them also speak English. So I know
there is a good possibility someone has said this phrase before. But I’m going to pretend I made it up and log
this creation here.
New Phrase: Screaming
from my south mouth.
Meaning: Farting or expelling gases and/or substances from the colon; especially with some degree of noise/commotion.
