Foods with a pick-up, a get up and go, a leap higher and more forward, a spice with a sound, a drum roll as you eat bland fish that was turned into a Spanish hot pepper delight. Peppery granules like salt strewn on potatoes, turning a puttering potato into a scalloped dreamy cheese delight like nachos covered with drippy yellow American cheese, sloppy and dripping, a Sloppy Joes sandwich drenched in tomato sauce reddened and loud, like a trumpet, waiting patiently for the spicy Jewish sound of a Shofar, soon to be rattling the windows of all homes near and far, a worldly delight, a time of music and a time to feast. A new day, a new week, a new month, new year, a profitable fiscal year.
To love this spicy taste, to taste horseradish, to eat pickled red beets in vinegar and get a kick from a lick.
Borscht for everyone, with or without sour cream, in a cup as a drink or in a bowl as a soup, heated or chilled.
A lickety-split of a food that screams out loud as you enjoy it but does not irritate the lining of your stomach. Foods that satisfy that you taste for hours in your mouth long after it is swallowed.
A red hot pepper becoming a dream come true.
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