Hello, Chris. Welcome to the Mende Room.

Ola, gentlemen.

Ola!

All right, so my story starts back in the mid-80s when I was 14, living in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

My dad had gotten some smoked salmon from a buddy of his, so he decided one Saturday he was going to break it out and get it all up for all of us.

And then at that age, he gave me one Pino Colada to drink with it.

Everything was good until that night. And then all of a sudden I got super sick.

Couldn't stop throwing up. My parents started freaking out, wondering what was going on,

because they were fine.

Ended up taking me a hospital.

Find out some reason I got food poisoning.

It was down for three days, couldn't eat anything, crap coming out both ends,

you know, all that wonderful stuff.

Jump until now up to that day because of that incident, I cannot eat fish or pinocaladas.

It's the smell.

Well, you can avoid, you can avoid pinia calas, but living here is kind of tough to avoid

salmon.

Sure.

Absolutely.

So my wife wants me, hey, let's have fish.

And I'm like, no. You can have it all you want. I will go somewhere else.

Have you had fish even once since the smoked salmon incident?

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