the dish on treats: chili episode

 you like your chili hot
or thermonuclear?
With beans? Or
with meat?

I like mine
full on bean thermonuclear, but
the day after - the leftovers are all ready
in the freezer, formed into bricks, with
a popsicle stick in the end. So cold.

So delicious.
So intense-torture hot
as the taste thaws on
your tongue so cold,
though. And who the HELL
ate my PLUMS?!

Carlos.

Such exquisite torture, the freezing
intolerably into unbearable heat
for your own delectation! Ever
get your tongue stuck
going in too soon on a cold lick
at a full on thermonuclear bean
chili pop torturesicle? Because

you know
if you haven't,
cold dulls taste buds right? Or
is supposed to anyhow. This "treat"
puts theory to the test! Cold 

turns out to be a mitigating factor.
Could be true, hurts like hell either
way, but how will you notice yourself
if you aren’t always licking new things?

Clean things.

Wholesome things.

Anyway, don't bother if your answer 
was meat. Meatsicles lose their juicy 
virtues when you try to lick 'em up 

frozen on a stick.