No soda. Nothing with tomato sauce, though fresh tomatoes were all right. Definitely no hot or spicy foods, which was too bad. It got so I couldn't eat much of anything without a problem.

In spite of the terrible pain I was in, I tried to help name the hot sauces. For the allegedly mild one, which tasted like nuclear fall-out, I suggested Hot as Fuck. For the medium one, which tasted like seven lit cigarettes applied firmly to the tongue, I suggested You'd Have to Be an Idiot to Try This, and for the Scorpion sauce, which was so hot I think it gave me permanent nerve damage, I suggested Lawsuit Followed by Complete Financial Collapse.

She ignored all my suggestions...

Tomato sauce works best with dried pasta, because the tomato sauces tend to be too heavy for the fresh pasta. Fresh pastas tend to absorb sauce right away. Fresh pastas always work better with broths or lighter sauces.

We've got a giant tomato patch with more than 50 varieties of tomatoes.

You need a little bit of tomato sauce, or a little bit of lemon juice, or both, to make it sour.

I'm 71 years old, and I had no idea you could swallow a pill and have pictures taken of your insides. They've come up with so many things during my life.