Beware the Brownies...

Yesterday, as a conference treat, I made a box of brownies (and making them made me remember something that I did in high school, which I'll write about momentarily). But instead of using the eggs, oil, and water, I blended up some black beans and used them as the liquid part. Now, don't be hatin'. I know it sounds weird, but after they're all mixed up and baked, you can't even taste the black beans. The only difference that I could detect was that the texture was more like cake than brownies. They were good. So if you're interested... You take a can of black beans, drain off the liquid and then while the beans are still in the can, fill it up with water. Blend the beans/water and then mix them into a brownie mix. Follow the box directions for baking.

The real purpose of this post is to relate a story about brownies from when I was in high school. A friend and I had heard from someone (I can't remember who told us) that if you put a certain substance (I can't remember the substance) into brownies (or any food for that matter, brownies just hid the blue coloring), it would make the urine of the person who ate them turn a bluish green. So, of course we had to try it. We got a brownie mix and the substance and whipped up a batch of brownies and gave them to the boy next door to eat. After he had eaten them, we told him what was going to happen... and my friend and I both had to eat a few to see if it was really going to work. And the next day, what do you know, we were both peeing green. When we asked the boy next door if it had worked on him, he said it had and he hadn't flushed the urinal at school so as to let the person who stumbled upon it ponder over what would cause a person to have green urine. As would be expected from a bunch of crazy high schoolers, we were all laughing hysterically by the end of the day.