L'histoire de sa vie

Yesterday I got what is possibly the oddest Spam email I think I’ve ever received. I’m not sure why I got it, where my email was harvested (I’m actually really good with my email address to avoid harvesting, and have done a good job – I’m literally stuck on only one spam list, for the Houston Rockets), or what the heck the point of it was.

I used to get lots of spam before I had my domain because once you sign up for one list, you’re stuck with all the lists to which they decide to sell your address. So I was inundated with ads for credit ratings, Nigerian princes, and various erectile dysfunction drugs.

The combination of my good email practices and Microsoft Outlook’s Spam filter has made it so that today I live in a nearly spam-free environment. Yet the email I received yesterday did not get stopped by my spam filter (possibly due to its lack of links to anything, as well as its fine English) and showed up in my inbox. So I opened it. The contents are cryptic. I did not request such a recipe, nor does the website from which the email claims to be load. Here’s the full email:

From: Administrative Support [service@rfghnb.com]
Subject: Requested update.

Recipe: Overnight Fruit Salad

Ingredients

1 small head cabbage, shredded (about 5 cups)
1 15oz can pineapple chunks, well drained
2 11oz cans mandarin orange sections, drained
2 cups seedless green grapes
1/3 cups light raisins
1 1/2 cups cubed Edam cheese
1 8oz carton lemon yogurt
1 cup dairy sour cream

Instructions :

1. Place cabbage on bottom of large salad bowl.
2. Top with pineapple chunks, mandarin orange sections, grapes and raisins. Sprinkle cheese atop.
3. Combine yogurt and sour cream; spread over salad, sealing to edge of bowl
4. Cover and refrigerate for 4 to 24 hours. If desired, garnish with lemon and lime twist, curly endive, and a grape.

I ask you: What the heck?

Tags: email, food, internet, spam

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