Peppermint and Pineapple

These food items have two very important things in common:

First they both start with "P". So if you were ever on Jeopardy and the category was "Foods that Start with the letter P" you would already have two to choose from.

Second and more importantly these two foods have the amazing ability to ruin other foods they come in contact with.

Example: put pineapple on a pizza and then take pineapple off the pizza. It is as if the pineapple never left. Sure you don't have the sickening sweet, soft glob of cooked pineapple to digest but the juice from the cooked pineapple has already done irreparable damage. Pizza must be tossed.

Example: peppermint. I bought some Ghiradelli peppermint bark at Christmas. Each little piece of park was individually packaged. I put the individually packaged peppermint bark in the same candy jar with individually packaged chocolates like KitKat, Recess Peanut Butter Cups, chocolate truffles, you get the idea. Wouldn't you know that when I got a craving for a lovely Lindt chocolate truffle the darn thing had a hint of peppermint. Truffle must be tossed. I went through my candy jar and separated all the peppermint stuff and gave them their own jar and put all the other chocolate in a different jar but the damage was done. The peppermint already osmosicized the other chocolate and everything is ruined.

Those darn foods, peppermint and pineapple.