March 30, 2005

The Taste of Aloe

This post on plant killing, which I am a master of, got me to thinking of aloe. My mother always kept aloe plants growing, because we kids were salt water river rats, and constantly burning our fair honky skins. Water skiing and fishing, a lot of hanging out on the dock. We roasted, being oblivious in those days of skin cancer. Blisters were just a fact of life.

So the aloe was a blessing on the third degree epidermis searing. A bit slimy, but that was part of the emollient nature that made it so soothing.

Aloe is a succulent, a water-storer, and I was always impressed as a child by survival techniques. I would search for water-retaining weeds in the fields and woods, anything that would keep one alive. Weird. And so I acquired a strange taste for aloe. Not tasty in a bourbon or beefsteak way, but an evocative taste nonetheless.

I outgrew this, of course, but for some reason every now and then I will break off a piece of aloe, and give it a taste. It takes me home.

Posted by Velociman at March 30, 2005 8:48 PM
Comments

Gotta love the link love from the Velocimaster, but I'm not sure that I can be convinced that you actually came to appreciate a taste for that biting flavah!

Posted by: Key at March 30, 2005 9:17 PM

I prefer Noxema on a Triscut.

Posted by: Jim - PRS at March 30, 2005 9:56 PM

Noxema on a Triscut? Nah! I like to dip a stalk of aloe right in the Noxema jar...straight-up so to speak.

Posted by: Sam at March 30, 2005 10:08 PM

I am the Flava Flav of aloe. Tastes like soap, but that's clean, right?

Posted by: Velociman at March 30, 2005 10:09 PM

Better than KY jelly, Cat

Posted by: Catfish at March 30, 2005 10:37 PM

KY jelly and Noxema? Dammit...I thought I told y'all to stay the hell out of my medicine cabinet!! And suffice it to say, my aloe plant is left untouched. You are a bunch of sick bastards.

Posted by: Dana at March 30, 2005 10:49 PM

Shouldn't that be incredibly good looking (but a trifle greasy) skinned sick bastards? And don't forget the "Skin So Soft" ™ to keep the "no see ums" away.

Posted by: Guy S at March 30, 2005 11:54 PM

Aloe is an old Indian medicine plant. Great for sunburn. Also great for dry skin. I don't believe that I every ate any, but I probably tried smoking it.

Posted by: Acidman at March 31, 2005 10:37 AM

Aloe saved my skin one 4th of July along the Wilmington River many years ago...

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