Five pungent vegetables soup

my family wasn't this strict, but in some sects of buddhism you're not allowed to eat the "five pungent vegetables", onions garlic shallots leeks and umm chives i think, really any of those kind of vegetables. probably some monk ages ago was tired of onion farts stinking up the temple. anyways, one time my brother made a soup using all five of them. he said, "one sip of this, and you'll be reincarnated as a flea."

A tired-looking woman sits alone at a bar with drinks while a post above tells a story about Buddhist sects forbidding onions, garlic, shallots, leeks, and chives. The punchline is that a soup containing all five pungent vegetables would supposedly cause such bad karma that the drinker would be reincarnated as a flea, making this a reaction to an absurdly unpleasant or cursed meal. EN: A tired-looking woman sits alone at a bar with drinks while a post above tells a story about Buddhist sects forbidding onions, garlic, shallots, leeks, and chives. The punchline is that a soup containing all five pungent vegetables would supposedly cause such bad karma that the drinker would be reincarnated as a flea, making this a reaction to an absurdly unpleasant or cursed meal.

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