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A few weeks ago, I shared my dirtiest picky-eating secrets and listed the foods I refuse to try — from grapefruit to beans. I asked readers to tell me about their finicky ways. It turns out I'm not the only one out there. Read what they said. Mushrooms? No way. Kevin McDermott, Waterbury I wouldn't eat a banana on a dare. In the late '60s, one of our neighbors had visitors from Delaware and they introduced all the kids to baked bananas. Yum! You cannot even imagine the smell of oozing nanner guts in the oven. I can actually get...

TALLIL AIR BASE, Iraq, Oct. 29, 2007 – Bill Zett, an auditor with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, believes it’s nice to catch a fish when fishing, but not always necessary. Bill Zett, a full-time U.S. Army Corps of Engineers auditor and part-time fisherman, fishes Lake Wisconsin at Tallil Air Base, Iraq. Photo by John Connor  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Zett goes fishing most Friday mornings at Lake Wisconsin, a manmade lake not far from the headquarters of the Corps’ Gulf Region South district on this sprawling onetime Iraqi air base. He said it is peaceful...