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  2. What is a food you hate, but everyone else seems to love?

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    On 1/29/2021 at 9:46 PM, Matt the Bruins said:

    I've found there are limits to that sort of conditioning. Eating a big slab of fudge cake at my grandmother's just before coming down ill with several days of stomach flu made me hate the taste of fudge throughout most of my childhood, but eventually I overcame it. (The pepperoni thing is more persistent, but it made me sick a number of times before we figured out the culprit, and a few after when the devil sausage made it into pizzas unbeknowst to me.)

    Well, i have gotten to where, i only like blander potato chips now, as i have gotten older.

     

    And i never liked bbq flavored

    On 1/31/2021 at 9:03 AM, Hugh Neilson said:

     

    Because people are often more honest after a couple of alcoholic beverages?  :)

     

    OK, as I read through:

     

    -          Like some others, have never developed a taste for coffee.  And I agree that creates a social issue.  “Developing a taste” is not high on my agenda – give me something that tastes good NOW.  I’m not really a fan of hot beverages in general.

    -          Not a fan of sushi either.

     

    -          Not a yogurt fan – probably could eat it, but not so inclined.

     

     

     

    -          Mayo OK; Onions OK;

     

     

     

    -          Blue cheese – love it.  A pizza chain had a “hot sauce chicken and blue cheese” for a (brief) while.  When I saw it and ordered it, the waiter paused, and asked how sure I was on that.  I liked it a lot, but the heat really brings out the taste, so I could see how a lot of people would not.  The other lady waiting tables, however, loved it.  I doubt anyone would fall in the middle zone between “loved it” and “could not stomach it”.  The waiter serving us held it at arm’s length when he brought it out.

     

     

     

    -          I don’t eat a lot of vegetables – holdover as a kid.  One not mentioned:  peppers.  Green, red, whatever – not a peppers fan.

     

     

     

    -          I’ve recently had grilled Brussels sprouts a few times – they’re not bad.  I'd probably eat more vegetables now if my wife liked them.  Our tastes mature.  But since she does not like a lot of vegetables, I don't have to try them.

    And the Simpsons understood broccoli:  Nature's most dangerous food - it even tries to warn you away with its terrible taste.

    Never liked coffee.

    On 1/29/2021 at 9:46 PM, Matt the Bruins said:

    I've found there are limits to that sort of conditioning. Eating a big slab of fudge cake at my grandmother's just before coming down ill with several days of stomach flu made me hate the taste of fudge throughout most of my childhood, but eventually I overcame it. (The pepperoni thing is more persistent, but it made me sick a number of times before we figured out the culprit, and a few after when the devil sausage made it into pizzas unbeknowst to me.)

    I should also mention that when i threw up after those Doritos it was the first time i had thrown up in 15 years.

  3. Reddit - wallstreetbets

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    On 1/31/2021 at 10:13 PM, Duke Bushido said:

    The media has been saying all day that the crunch is over, or the worst part has past, and even that the GME stock problem has been closed out.

     

    I'd like to say that they are being fed this misinformation, but honestly: they _know_ how to double-check.

     

    For what it's worth, none of those things are true.

     

     

    The media double checking?

     

    That is so adorable.🤔

  7. What is a food you hate, but everyone else seems to love?

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    On 1/28/2021 at 12:08 PM, Duke Bushido said:

     

     

    Thanks, and yes: Undercover Brother was both overtly hilarious _and_ a glorious skewer to racism via blatant ridicule of racist stereotypes.  While it wasn't well-regarded as deeply humorous, I feel that it has been greatly under-appreciated as a social commentary.

     

    As far as the white people / mayonnaise joke goes:

     

    I can't say he was the first, but I know it goes back to the mid-eighties when a young George Lopez was still doing the "white people be like / Mexican people be like" drivel that all-too-often passed as "observational comedy."  (You know: because promoting racist stereotypes is something we should stand up and applaud  😕  ).  He followed it up with "you see them at Taco Bell yelling 'Oh my God!  It's so spicy!  Is that _real_ tomato?!'"

     

    At any rate, you can probably find it in reruns of his television show (which featured an older, more experienced George Lopez, and was actually quite funny, being based more on family observational humor, though eventually he did recycle his entire original act through it).

     

     

     

     

    For me, it's black licorice.  It used to be my absolute favorite, but I tried sneaking a piece while I was actually very sick (bad flu, high fever, six years old).  When it comes back up, it's the _only_ thing you can taste  Ugh.   Then the dry heaves, with nothing but the agony of a digestive system determined to push its entirety out through your mouth or kill you in the attempts-- and nothing coming up but licorice-flavored fumes.....

     

    I was six.  Today, I am sixty.  I _still_ can't touch the stuff.  Even just the smell of anise seed will set my guts to lurching.  Some memories are vivid _forever_.  Why none of those memories involve sex is completely beyond me.  :(

     

     

     

    In the words of my wife:

     

    Pour that ** back in the horse!

     

     

     

     

    Outside of American (real, not imitation) cheese, I feel that way about every single cheese I have ever had forced upon me-- even the mildest of cheddar and the zestiest of nacho.  Knowing where cheese cultures originally came from doesn't really help me shake that, either.  yuck.

     

     

     

     

    Thank you.  Honestly, I think if we could get the media to use that instead of "white supremacists," we might make them take a better look at themselves.  I mean "Supremacy because of Whiteness" does little more than reinforce their beliefs, and I think it well-past time to stop doing that!

     

     

     

     

    Just out of curiosity (and I harangue my wife about this, because that's how she prepares them (I do not prepare them: I think buying food that I _know_ we aren't going to willingly eat is counter-productive), is there enough grease, bacon, cream cheese, and other seasonings to completely kill the taste of the sprouts?  :lol:    If so, it's a pretty good bet that they don't like them, either: it's the seasoned bacon they're enjoying.  ;)

     

     

     

     

    Thank you.  I confess: that's not even inspired.  :(  They taste exactly like that "I threw up a little bit in the back of my throat" tastes like.   Bleargh!

     

    I prefer my son's description of them, but I don't want to encourage it:

     

    "Yep; I was right (while spitting them out).  Those are _definitely_ Grinch testicles!"

     

    :rofl:

     

     

     

    I cant eat Doritos because i threw up after eating them once.

  12. What is a food you hate, but everyone else seems to love?

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    I seem to be odd within my family.

     

    My least favorite food (or 2nd, but the other one is less universal within) black eyed peas. Dont get it, it taste like mud with less flavor (with a hint of paper taste, dont ask how i know how mud and paper taste). I have to wash down.

     

    Beans, especially, is also a family favorite, they are less repulsive than above, but still cant eat.

     

    Note: the other hated food i didnt mention is coconut. The taste is awful but survivable but in combo with the texture, i end up in chew and heave mode getting it down.

  21. RIP: Hammerin' Hank Aaron, died at 86

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    Well only 1 or 2 unanimous right? So, somebody, somewhere will be petty.

     

    Interesting when he was the oldest still playing, he was teamates with the youngest, Robin Yount.

    Just now, Badger said:

    Well only 1 or 2 unanimous right? So, somebody, somewhere will be petty.

     

    Interesting when he was the oldest still playing, he was teamates with the youngest, Robin Yount.

    Oh and i should mention when Aaron debuted, yount had yet to be born.

  22. Coronavirus

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    One slight worry for me with the vaccine is possibly being requiredto have it.

     

    Not exactly one of the paranoids on the vaccine, but being forced to put something in me as an adult does make me nervous. Most likely will do it when it is time, but i feel better making that decision on my own.

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