[enraged]

I’ve always said, there is a reason they eat weird stuff in different countries, they have to or they will starve! Me?, not so much. I eat what I like!

a 10 y/o in some 3rd world crap hole would rather eat bugs wrapped in leaves?, or a nice chunk of chicken breast with corn on the cob?

[Alia]

I'd never had collards before arriving in NC. Collards is what we fed the daughter's guinea pig. Anyway, it's taken me some time to find the right way of cooking it. I like collards. And biscuits? ICK! Now, such nifty wonderful things to eat. But I can remember arriving in the US, and my dad an old San Francisco native boy, sitting us down to a meal of antipasto, minnestrone soup, and sourdough bread. It was the sourdough bread my palate had difficulty coping with. Now, my dad sends me the very best out of SF for Christmas! :)

HOWEVER! I have learned, first hand and quite assertively, that people do have specific palate templates. It's in the genes. Sure, it can also be cultural; and mostly is. But to this day, no matter how its prepared, asparagus still makes me ill.

Most people I've known consider asparagus a nector-of-the-gods type of foodstuff.

blech!