What is your fav Mr. Masi story?

For all of you out there who have no clue what a Masi is he was my science teacher in 7th and 8th grade. He was an interesting character to say the least. How many of your science teacher taught in the third person “Mr. Masi says it is time to hand in your coloring sheets.” Or for that matter had you do coloring sheets (in 7th/8th grade). The local paper had stories in it about him keeping road kill in the staff freezer and for giving the sex-ed class a play by play of what goes on in the Masi house.

So on to my favorite Mr. Masi story that is the tale of Figwort. In our class we had to do a report on a spice and bring some in either in a baked good or just to smell and taste. This had nothing to do with what we were learning but it was probably a ploy for him to get some more free food out of us. So I came up with the idea of making up a spice. Basically I looked in the old Britannica under spice where I saw a long list of crazy spices including that of figwort. So that’s the one I picked. In the kitchen I threw a teabag’s contents, jell-o, instant soup, and some other random stuff together. That was the birth of Figwort. I then wrote a great work of fiction about the history of figwort (it was form Africa and after slaves it was the number one export during the 1700’s) Not only did he enjoy the taste of it, but he asked where he could buy it. I said I found it at some spice shop downtown. The paper got an “A” so I did a god job (or at least the pats were while he was grading it).

PS. Here is something real about figwort