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I recently saw a Tumblr post on Instagram that I found humorous and relatable in a few ways. The post was about how this person loves to lick the spoon after stirring brownie batter, and doesn't care about getting "Sal  Monella , whoever that is". Further down the post is a picture of Tom from the popular cartoon  Tom and Jerry  with a top hat on creeping through a doorway. The post portrays Tom as the character "Salvadore  Monella ". Personally, I found this post funny in  many ways . One,  it  was relatable to me because most everyone grew up hearing from adults that it's not healthy to eat raw batter. Two, the person in the post referred to the bacteria infection salmonella as "Sal  Monella " making the disease take a human like form. Lastly, the misspelling and misuse of the word "salmonella" is comedic because we tend to laugh at mistakes, bad grammar, or defects displayed in another person or object. In this case, the misspelling us...