Once in a while, the wife and I enjoy a good old fashioned German meal of Kielbasa and Sauerkraut. Well, I happened to pick out the kielbasa in the grocery store, and instead of picking the turkey kielbasa I chose the beef. I chose poorly. When I cooked it up last weekend, it was terrible - so greasy and heavy that we couldn’t eat it. I threw it into a tupperware dish and into the fridge it went.

Yesterday morning, as I was preparing bottles and lunch for us all (the bottles are for the E-man, lunches are for us, just in case you were wondering), I saw a few items in the fridge that I could clean out and stick into the dishwasher load I was compiling. So into the garbage disposal went the kielbasa and sauerkraut.

Now, those of you who grew up with garbage disposals, or have had one for years, might know not to put such a dense or heavy object into the grinder. I thought I got away with it - the sink shook a little, but it got through the stuff just fine. It wasn’t until my socked foot began to get wet that I looked under the sink. The vibrations had caused the garbage disposal to come loose from the drain pipe, and “digested” kielbasa and sauerkraut littered the area under the sink. The water I was running to clean out the sink was just spreading the mess.

Any other meal, any at all, and it wouldn’t have been such a big deal. But this stuff was the devil before being grinded up!! And of course we’d run out of paper towels the night before. And finally, I don’t know about the rest of you, but with the baby, my wife and I have very little slack in our morning ritual!! I did manage to get it all cleaned up, but needless to say, the whole day was just a little off. And I don’t know if I’ll ever EVER eat kielbasa again.