I’ll set the early morning scene for you as one where I’m engrossed in my very early morning computer searches as I sip the first cup of coffee while the wife potters in the kitchen. Suddenly it’s….
“ Do you quero Joe Plate con your arepa ? ”
Now most everything sinks in automatically in a situation like this as my mind would instantly translate this to ….
“Do you want Joe Plate with your unleavened bread breakfast ? ” ……
It’s the unfamiliar items such as Joe Plate that is what causes me to inquire…
“ What ? ”
This of course bringing the agitated and louder response of…..
“ I said do you want Joe Plate with your desajuno !? ”
“ Just what in Gods name is Joe Plate … I never heard of Joe Plate ? ”
Naturally being so early in the morn it hasn’t occurred to me that this all had begun two days ago at the grocery store when Mags informed me we would be trying something different….and I didn’t pay attention.
“ It’s strawberry ! ”
And so I saw that it was indeed strawberry as she stood holding up before my eye the little container that did not hold the familiar Activia yogurt but instead…… Yoplait.
