Huh.
We recycle. So sometimes when I finish off a jar of something especially gloppy, I do this weird thing where I fill it with water and let it sit while I wash the dishes, in the hopes that most of the glop will loosen up without me having to glop up our scrub brush. About a month ago, I did this with a jar of peanut butter. There wasn't much peanut butter left in the jar; just those last little bits around the mouth of the jar, and in the corner place at the bottom.
We also don't pour our cooking oil down the drain. We pour it into clean used jars, and when they are full of oil, we throw them away. At some point, the above mentioned peanut butter jar filled with water made its way to the corner of the counter where we keep the oil jar, so that it looked like there were just two oil jars, and no jar full of soaking peanut butter water stuff.
I noticed the peanut butter jar while doing the dishes today. The peanut butter scraps had turned grey. I knew it was bad news, but I opened the jar anyway. APPARENTLY, if you leave a jar of peanut butter sitting on a sunny counter top for about a month in the summer, the resulting concoction smells just like blue cheese. JUST LIKE IT. It's amazing. Also amazing was how quickly the smell filled the whooole kitchen. And how long it lingered.
Another interesting fact: no matter how much I tried to tell myself to calm down and just imagine that it really WAS blue cheese I was smelling, I couldn't stop wanting to throw up.
And on a completely random and unrelated note: someone from Alabama just found my blog by searching for "I have a great rack." Which is awesome for them, because I DO have a great rack. Thanks.
