Roll-Ups

Have you ever had a friend concoct some really bizarre snack, said that it's really good and told you to try it. You wince, staring at the unappetizing food in front of you and in an attempt not to be rude, or a fit of hunger, decide to at least try a bite. Then your taste buds jump out of their seats, delighted with whatever the heck it is that you're eating. Then you eat the whole plate and feel slightly guilty for ever doubting your friend...yeah, so if that hasn't happened to you it has certainly happened to me.

One of my favorite weird snacks a friend showed me is a turkey cream cheese wrap, called the turkey cream cheese wrap, for lack of a more original name. You take a tortilla and spread cream cheese on it, about as thick as you would spread peanut butter on a PB&J sandwich. Then, you take a couple slices of deli turkey and lay them flat over the layer of cream cheese, making sure most of it is covered. Then you roll it up. I usually cut it into bite-size slices, which can sometimes be difficult because the cream cheese slides around and it unrolls a little if you haven't wrapped it up tight enough. But that's beside the point. I like this snack so much that I've started showing it to some of my other friends.

Occasionally, they don't believe me when I say that it's really good so I'll tell them that another friend showed it to me. This way they know that I'm not that alone in liking it...it sometimes gets them to change their mind about trying it. However, the rare times that I don't have to resort to telling people that a friend showed me the recipe I sometimes feel like I'm plagiarizing. I know, it sounds silly, plagiarizing a snack, but, it's still the whole idea of taking someone else's idea and claiming it as your own, right? I know this situation is a little different because I can't get into legal trouble for telling other people to try cream cheese, turkey roll-ups, but I still sometimes feel like I'm taking credit for some one else's genius snack ideas...