How I met Anise: Part 2

Anise reminisced on those breathless moments as follows:

We then confided in each other while riding ligers (lion/tigers bred for their skills in magic) only to find ourselves embracing a giant mound of broccoli that sat there silently judging our courtship. The night ended when a loaf of bread that had leprosy found its way into the pants of a large Italian man rendering him incapable of reproducing as a result of appendage loss.

However I was not disillusioned. No sir! This was but the beginning of the beginning.
I recalled that:
This would have been quite off-putting, but, alas, my retinas weren't working real well. So, I continued to eat, in fact, I began eating the lyger while I was riding it, not to mention the broccoli. This is the source of my powers.