Some years ago a kindly colleague gave me a bottle of her homemade chilli sauce. We opened it and enjoyed the flavour with our barbecued meat. Living in a cool climate at the time, I thought nothing of storing the bottle of sauce in the pantry alongside the other sauce bottles.
My husband and I finally finished repainting the kitchen/family room area a lovely white. We had a white round kitchen table with what were at the time, stylish red chairs. Here we ate our meals with our two primary school aged children.
It was a sausage night. Table set, food cooked and served. My husband shook the bottle and took the lid off the chilli sauce! It had fermented and the released pressure resulted in the sauce splattering far and wide, on the ceiling the walls and then it dripped back down. We were not spared.
In the end all we could do was laugh. It took weeks for us to get rid of every last spot and splodge. Yes, he had to repaint the room!
This post first appeared on earlieryears.blogspot.com by CRGalvin
