You are what you eat

My carpool buddy, M, and I got into a bizarre conversation the other day.  It happens when you are in the car together as much as we are, which is like a billion hours a day.  I can't even begin to recount the chain of topics that brought us to this one, but I told her that if she were a food, she would be a certain traditional dish that her family serves at Passover.  She has raved about this dish a lot, and I told her it fits her personality:  it's traditional, spicy, fun, meaningful, exciting...

We laughed, and she immediately said that if I were a food, I would be an artichoke because I'm very structured and organized.  That's it.  I tried to act too cool for school when I prodded a bit.  Structured?  Organized?  That's supposed to describe my entire personality?  She looked at me blankly and offered, "Oh...and artichokes are also...um...interesting?"

How convincing.