ok. so i was skinned by a piece of nougat.

yesterday afternoon, i cut a little finger off the stick of italian dark chocolate nougat that my good mother bought me at fratelli a few weeks back. it is a moist, fudgey thing full of whole roasted hazelnuts, with a protective layer of rice paper. mmm…

i put it to my mouth wherein the moisture from my lips adhered to the rice paper, so that when i removed the nougat after taking a bite, it removed the skin from my lips.

sure, it stung at the time, but i didn’t pay too much attention until a couple of hours later, at dinner, with the boy’s olds no less, when my lower lip was really, really stinging and i was having trouble speaking because it seemed like i couldn’t close my mouth properly. still, how much attention will you pay to your lip when the table is covered with a bounty of sashimi?

not too much.

and then i got home and looked in the mirror, and well…