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Recorded a bonus mini podcast for a toothpaste manufacturer today, which involved talking to a kind-faced dentist called Anita about sensitive teeth and then her asking me to consume cold things to see how much they hurt me. It was a tiny bit sadistic but I was happy about it because the third thing I was going to eat was a Solero. As you know I used to eat one of these a day, even when dieting - I actually called it the Solero diet because the Solero was my treat for the day (occasionally I had more).
Soleros are still allowed on my current regime, but have a score of zero out of a hundred so I don't want to have too many of them and am currently on about two a week. Maybe three. But no more than that.
However today it was my job to eat a Solero and I was getting paid to eat a Solero. Not by Solero. I wasn't allowed to say I was eating a Solero because the brand I was working with didn't want other brands mentioned. Which is OK, but I think for listeners to my podcast the Solero reference would be an enjoyable call back. You'll be able to work it out. So just imagine it's a Solero.
Regardless of my new diet though I had a get out of jail free card (they don't send me to jail if I eat bad foods, well only a mental one) to eat a Solero. But I had eaten really healthily today so the Solero didn't even take me under 80 out of 100 overall. So it's a double win.
There's just something weird and fun about being paid to eat a Solero. It didn't even set off sensitive teeth (unlike the icy water and apple out of the fridge) so it was win/win.
I learned some stuff about sensitive teeth and why eating apples can be bad for your teeth - they might keep the doctor away, but don't have the same affect on dentists. I prefer doctors to dentist (no offence to Anita who was lovely, but you know how things went with my actual dentist recently). Apples do seem to have weird effects on more professions than most fruits. You can get in with a teacher by giving them one, but repel doctors. But you'll be sending your teacher to the dentist more often, so might be a good gift for one that you don't really like.
It's weird that apples keep the doctor away rather than keeping you away from doctors. It conjures up an image of doctors hanging round your home, like vampires, but instead of garlic, they'll react with horror if you present them with an apple and fuck off.
Anyway apart from the sadistic tooth torture this was a fun way to make a living and eat an ice cream. So my day was pretty good.
Spread the word. It's the perfect Christmas gift. And could save the recipient's life. Or to put it another way if you don't buy it for every man you know and one of them gets cancer, you will have effectively murdered them. So it's up to you.
