The Usefulness of Vegetables

If you get to know Sam well enough, one thing you'll discover is his loath of celery. Our first two years of marriage I kept trying to sneak celery into food - salads, casseroles, the works. I even tried on several occasions to just put celery seed into potpie crust and got quite the wrinkly nose in return. I've finally given up and decided I rather have him eat than worry about getting enough celery in his diet.

The other night we got to talking about celery. I was explaining to him that I didn't necessarily like celery, it was just that I sometimes liked to add it to my food to give a little extra taste or crunch.

Sam's response in return was his usual "Bleck", and then followed by the very insightful comment - "It's not even a useful vegetable - you can't shoot it out of a potato gun." Well there you go folks, that's the new official definition of a useful vegetable (according to Mr. Haines).