"Yeah they were all yellow..."

Look at the stars,
Look how they shine for you,
And everything you do,
Yeah they were all yellow.
(c) Yellow by Coldplay

Story about my yellow nails

Having a garden back home and loving to cook I know that doing something with carrots will color your hands in orange, working with tomato plants will make your hands black, doing something with apples will turn them dark orange, but doing whatever with cucumbers is safe, unless you are not cooking something with Vlasic original dills.

I’ve cooked a salad today with Vlasic dills. The result: salad is great; my left hand including nails is yellow. What??? Yellow? From cutting pickled cucumbers? I even put my nails into lemon juice for few minutes – it helps even to dissolve all the things that makes your hands black after working with tomato plants. Didn’t help in this case. I’ve polished my nails and still you can tell the difference between nails on different hands. Yeah they were[are] all yellow.

I was sure there was something wrong with those dills. I was so right. Just look at the ingredients: cucumber (fine, the main ingredient), water, distilled vinegar, salt (all fine with me, my mom and grandmoms use cucumbers, water, vinegar, salt and other spices – and that’s it.), calcium chloride (have no idea what that is, but I’m sure it would not give me yellow color), alum, natural flavors (yeah, having genetically modified cucumbers you need flavors), polysorbate 80 (what?? Do I really need this in dills? 80?), yellow 5 (Here it is, the reason for my yellow nails).

Yellow 5… I wonder what that means for my nails. From unsuccessful experiment with lemon juice I can conclude that it is very chemical. Now I’m thinking that everything inside my body is yellow… “And it was all yellow” just like in Coldplay’s song.