Most runners like to, what we call, replenish, after a good
long run and many replenish with, what many call, a smoothie.
A smoothie is a concoction of various substances like frozen
and non-frozen fruits such as blueberries and/or bananas and perhaps, yogurt, either
flavored or non, and also juices or liquids of some sort, many of which aim to,
what we call, we being runners, replenish, what we call, electrolytes, that
are, what we call, lost during long runs.
Now, the mechanism used to create, what we call our,
smoothies, varies. Some will use a blender. Some will use a hand held mixer,
just like the one you have in your cabinet. You may use yours for soups but us
runners, we use it, for what we call, our smoothies. Still others will use what
is called a food processor. All mechanisms blend the substances, or what some
culinary minded might call, ingredients, into a smooth, drinkable, well, drink.
That is how the name, smoothie, came about.
Of the mechanisms involved, be it blender, hand held mixer,
or food processor, there is always the issue of what many call, clean up, after
concocting the aforementioned, aptly named, smoothie.
One of the reasons, many, let us call them, smoothie makers,
opt for blenders or hand held mixers, is the ease of clean up with these
particular smoothie making mechanisms.
Clean-up as it is called is much more, perhaps involved, is
the right word, with a food processor. A food processor has more parts than
either the blender or the food processor. This is why clean up, as it is
called, is more, involved. More parts equals, as they say, more clean up.
One of the more difficult parts in cleaning a food
processor, after making a smoothie designed to restore electrolytes after a
long run, is cleaning the blade and the plastic that houses the blade,
especially underneath the housing unit, of the blade. Cleaning the plastic
pieces that help to contain the elements, or ingredients, during smoothie
making, is easy, or less involved than cleaning the food processor blade and
blade housing unit, especially underneath the housing unit. Simply rinsing the,
let us call them containing units, or pieces, and placing them in an electronic
dishwasher for further cleansing involves less work than cleaning the food
processor blade and plastic housing unit. The blade and plastic housing unit
need to be cleaned by hand. Hence the term, more involved.
Cleaning the food processor blade and housing unit,
especially underneath, or what could be called the backside, requires special
care. Very special care. In using the food processor, over the blender or hand
held mixer to make a smoothie for after a long run to replace lost
electrolytes, left over, or what could be called, remaining, substances, can
remain in the, what will now be called the blade housing unit, if not properly,
carefully cleansed, by hand, due to the fact that sharp blades should not be
cleansed in an electronic dishwasher because they dull the blade.
Recently, a smoothie was made, in a food processor, after a
long run, to help restore lost electrolytes, lost during the long run but, care
had not been taken during previous hand held washings, or cleansings if you
prefer, of the blade housing unit. Because of the careless, less-than-vigilant
hand held washings of the blade housing unit, remaining substances from a
previous smoothie, now rotten and toxic, clinging to the underside of the blade
housing unit, found themselves, inserted, or a part of the, now,
currently-being-made-almost-about-to-be-drank smoothie. To restore lost
electrolytes.
These, as previously called, remaining substances, now toxic and
rotten and old, entered into the blood stream of the drinker of the smoothie,
in an attempt to restore lost electrolytes, causing abdominal pains and stomach
cramps in the stomach of the drinker of the smoothie who was merely attempting
to restore lost electrolytes after a long run. The long run was seven miles in
distance. Perhaps not meeting the definition of a “long run” for many runners,
but meeting the definition for the runner who made the smoothie that was drank.
In addition to stomach cramps and abdominal pain, there
occurred frequent trips to the bathroom, or what some in England, or the United
Kingdom, might call the loo. This could, perhaps somewhat humorously, be
spelled, L-O-U. After many hours, enduring pains and cramps and frequent trips
to the L-O-U, even including and up until, the middle of the night, defined by
some as up to but not after 1:00 a.m. eastern standard time, the pains and
cramps and frequent trips to the bathroom subsided, allowing for much deserved,
pain-free rest after a long run, of seven miles. The seven miles were run in
55:45 for those interested in pacing the run.
Later, upon review of the blade housing unit, there was spotted,
rotted, left over from a previous smoothie, ingredients, probably in this case,
frozen blueberries, on the underside of the blade housing unit. It has been determined
that these, left over, remaining, turned toxic ingredients were to blame for
the abdominal cramps, stomach pains, and frequent trips to the bathroom. As a
result, more care will be taken to, hand held, clean the blade housing unit,
especially, underneath, where substances or ingredients might attach and rot
and fester and enter into the digestive system of a runner merely hoping to
replace lost electrolytes lost during a “long run” of seven miles, in 55:45.
It has been gleaned, or learned, that a qtip, usually
reserved for cleaning ear wax, or a small wire brush, often called a bottle
cleaning brush, is the best implement, or implements, plural, to clean the
blade housing unit, especially underneath.
