This Is Drivel

Did you know that pimentos are chilis and not just some random red vegetable matter dangling from the middles of olives like naval lint? I have to admit I never thought about it until today, when My Darling B served pimento cheese spread for lunch.

“Where did you get pimentos?” I asked her, pondering for much longer than I should have the mental image of B hunched over a jar of olives, cursing as she plucked pimentos from them and dropped them into her blender. She fetched a jar of them from the kitchen and brought it back to show me. You can buy them all by themselves. Just pimentos. No olives. Huh.