Documenting Papa Richard’s Mixture

My father-in-law loves to be healthy.  He's always trying new healthy experiments.  It amazes me he doesn't run out of things to try.  One of his latest things is making some interesting "mixtures."  They are kind of like a smoothie, in the fact that they have a lot of healthy things ground up into juice form, but really, the mixtures are not the same as a smoothie at all.  When I think of smoothie, I think of fruit, maybe some spinach, possibly some sprouts or something like that.  

Papa's mixtures usually have a base of lots of ground up peppers.  This particular mixture, I'm told, had a lot of peppers, and onions and garlic, and I'm not sure what else.  What I do know, is that the scent was, well, overwhelming.  And you don't have to take my word for it.  Papa opened up his glass jar of mixture inside his son Luther's truck while they were out shopping, and Luther claims he didn't see it and immediately started looking and sniffing for rotten fish, and some kind of horrible rancid garbage.  Someone else claimed they couldn't get back in the truck for about 20 minutes because the cab had to air out.  These are all comments from people who don't normally mind the smell of onions and garlic at all.  In fact, they eat them in large quantities.

I love Papa Richard, but I was very grateful that the mixture was consumed outside on the deck.  He's a doozy of a guy.  I'm glad I know him.  Things are always interesting with Papa around.