When we were first married I was cooking chili and had an accident with the knife while slicing onions. I was holding my hand like Earl. My wife had the same reaction as Opal. I told her it was worse than she thought, then I passed out, landing flat on my face. She called 911 and I had to be carried out on a stretcher bleeding from four places (both nostrils, thumb, eyelid). In the emergency room the doctor sewed me up. When she took me home later she finished cooking the chili, which we ate. I asked her what she did with the thumb piece. She looked at me oddly. Then I explained that the doctor had confirmed that I had lopped off the tip of my thumb. It had been been left lying on the cutting board. It ended up in the chili. We even ate the leftovers. Ever since that recipe has been known as thumb chili and the knife, which we still have is the thumb chili knife.
When we were first married I was cooking chili and had an accident with the knife while slicing onions. I was holding my hand like Earl. My wife had the same reaction as Opal. I told her it was worse than she thought, then I passed out, landing flat on my face. She called 911 and I had to be carried out on a stretcher bleeding from four places (both nostrils, thumb, eyelid). In the emergency room the doctor sewed me up. When she took me home later she finished cooking the chili, which we ate. I asked her what she did with the thumb piece. She looked at me oddly. Then I explained that the doctor had confirmed that I had lopped off the tip of my thumb. It had been been left lying on the cutting board. It ended up in the chili. We even ate the leftovers. Ever since that recipe has been known as thumb chili and the knife, which we still have is the thumb chili knife.