[Wonderful Labs] FUGU FOR WONDER

[Wonderful Labs]

Dear Mister W., 

	I recently discovered the joys of a good wasabi.  Can you recommend any
place to get more?  What happens when you brush your teeth with wasabi? 
Is wasabi really the food of the gods?

Yours,
Hot Mama
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Dear Green Fiery,

	Ah, Wasabi: the Japanese horseradish that melts in your brain, not on
your hands.  To know the dangerous pleasure of wasabi is to know the
thrill of losing the entire upper half of your head and feeling the cool
breeze of karaoke on your naked synapses.  For fifteen seconds a pop.

	We have some pretty fine wasabi here at the Labs.  Just don't tell the cops.

	Our pal the Mad Bomber reports that brushing your teeth with wasabi
paste *defines* "refreshingly idiotic."  

	Wasabi is the food of the, well, see... it depends, I suppose, on how
you define gods.

	Dig: Too many people make the mistake of treating wasabi like a
condiment, a spice for their tepid sushi a la california, drizzled and
drowned in soy sauce.  For them it is a nasty "hot" dip what makes the
tongue tingle.  Feh.  

	Wasabi, properly used, is a nuclear goddamn hand grenade, a lump of
divine revelation hidden apocalyptically under the filet of raw passion.
 It nestles in the rice like a viper, camouflaged by the seaweed, then
strikes your soft palate with sudden ninja death blossoms.  You learn
the secrets of the garden, you cry involuntarily at the memory of what
it was like to be unborn, you think you will never be the same, for you
have no sense organs left vision and smell and taste and touch long gone
and ears ringing with the bell that tolls for wasabi, you are drowning
in lavasoundsea, you have no body, your body cannot withstand the Gs,
going home, wasa - 

	and then it's over.  Tears drying on your face, you smile and reach for
another nigiri.

	Wasabi is not to be tasted; it is to be *experienced*.  

	

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		1978 BBC Documentary



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