Charcoal Smoothie

Sometimes I try strange things just for the heck of it, because I'm rather curious of nature. This is what happened during our last holiday. We had brunch at the Wondertree on the Terminal2 of Heathrow. When I travel, I usually have a juice or a smoothie with my first meal of the day, mainly because I think I might get low on fruits and vegs, so we might as well try to correct this early on. Among the smoothies on their menu, there was one called "Black Magic". Intriguing and exotic name, I thought, full of promises. It had cherries, banana, blackberries, blackcurrants, blueberries and... charcoal. My wife thought it sounded way too weird and that I should think twice about drinking this, suspecting it might be toxic, even poisonous. The waitress said that it was quite good actually and I was very curious, so I decided to try it. It was indeed very good, even though I could taste the charcoal. It was actually the best thing we had there. So now I can say that once in my life I drank a charcoal smoothie.