As I’ve mentioned before, we see some pretty creepy food items here. This evening we were eating dinner with the neighbors, and Lina (Galindo’s sister) sat down next to me. I like it when she sits by me, because she’s nice and funny and one of our bestest friends here. She makes cookies with Emily sometimes. Anyways, I look down into her bowl, and what should I see in it but Admiral Ackbar’s head. In miniature. About the size of a potato.

“Good god, what is that?” I thought to myself. Then I remembered that we were eating chicken soup. Logic demanded that it be only one thing: the chicken head, sans beak, with the eyes boiled out.

“Um, is that the chicken head?” I asked as tactfully as possible. She nodded her own head up and down vigorously, a huge smile on her lips.

And let me guess: “It’s your favorite part, isn’t it?”

“Que si!” she responded emphatically. It gave me flashbacks to Lucy (her same-age aunt) asking for an extra helping of dragonflies in her soup the day I had to choke THAT down. Ugh.