Unforgettable food problems

• Deliquescing potatoes
  
• Smoking tar in a coffeepot
  
• Spoiled meat helpfully dragged out of your garbage by a raccoon in July
  
• The hot peppers your translator won't eat
  
• Fernet Branca

Things that Fernet Branca tastes like:

"medicine. You’re going to hate it, I promise."

"Poison"

"the end of a bad marriage, all bile and bitterness followed by a certain sulky relief."

"a mixture of aromatherapy essences and dilute Marmite."

"somewhere between pine-scented lysol and baking-soda toothpaste with hints of anise, molasses and ashtray."