I did something dumb:  I tried to cut a piece of bread nearly a century after the invention of sliced bread.

This is my review of Almaza:

Obviously, I cut more than bread, I cut my finger.  I am avoiding typing with that finger as I write this.  What happened?  I bought a baguette on Sunday and I decided to make a Tapas plate of sorts for lunch with some leftover roast beef and a few other cold cuts I had on hand.  The crust on the bread was a bit hard so naturally, I put more pressure on the end of the knife.  This knife.

The teeth glanced off the crust and nicked my left forefinger along the cuticle/nail line.  Not a big deal, but I’ll probably use an antiseptic after I’m done at the gym.

This has to be common, right?  People getting injured while handling a baguette.  There are a few stories out there where people chipped a tooth on a baguette, or another man heroically bludgeoning an irate customer with a baguette.  So I looked to see if the ICD-10 registry has something on baguette related injuries.

After all, they have a diagnosis code for being bitten by an Orca…multiple times, because clearly it happened at least once, and not just in movies that are so bad they are awesome.

So it should come as no surprise I could not find an ICD-10 code for a baguette related injury.  I did however find a couple that may be helpful or of interest:

W26.0:  “Contact with a knife”.

W26.2:  “Contact with the edge of stiff paper”. (WTF)

W26.8:  “Contact with other sharp objects, not otherwise classified”  A good example of this one, might be a rusty tin can lid.

Ultimately, this would probably be classified as a Y92.0 (Non-institutional residence as the place of occurrence of the external cause), as this is not a work related injury.

 

This beer was interesting.  As you can plainly see it is not poured neatly into a glass and set upon my kitchen counter.  I saved this one from a few months back and decided now was as good a time as any to review it. Believe it or not, this beer…is from Lebanon.

I met up with The Old Man and SP while they came back to AZ for their wine when the weather got more amiable to transporting wine by car.  I found a Lebanese place they agreed to since it had quite a few vegetarian options on the menu. I even saw the telltale fat, gregarious, Arab guy with obnoxious gold jewelry as the life of the party when I arrived.  So needless to say this place was legit.  The server downplayed this beer when I asked what they had available, so I don’t know if they sell many of them, but its surprisingly good.  A Pilsner made almost perfectly in the Czech style which is probably the still the best style, but I’m not going feed you to the whales if you disagree.  Almaza:  3.2/5