You hate it but you keep trying it - what is it?

[Gingersnap]

We've all done this - bought or ordered a food choice that we want to like but we just don't. Yet we keep trying for some inane reason. Whether we buy and pitch cabbage, health drinks, fish, okra or whatever, we've all got a list of failed foods that we keep trying over and over.

What's yours?

I will confess to an absurd spout problem. I like spouts. I even sprout my own from time to time. I simply don't eat them before they go bad. Yet I buy them way too often.

Squash. I keep thinking I will like it in some preparation. The truth is that I can stand a slight amount of squash in something like minestrone soup but that's it. Yet I keep attempting to bake, grill, or roast it. Insane.

[Adam]

Nothing. If I already know I don't like it, then I'm not going to punish myself with trying to grow it, and I'm not going to waste money buying it. Nothing on this planet will ever make me like sauerkraut; there's absolutely, positively no point in me buying it or making it.

I'm simply not into self-flagellation. I don't like mushrooms. I will eat them in a salad or on a pizza or whatever, but I'm never going to intentionally order them. That's just stupid.

[Gingersnap]

Nothing. If I already know I don't like it, then I'm not going to punish myself with trying to grow it, and I'm not going to waste money buying it. Nothing on this planet will ever make me like sauerkraut; there's absolutely, positively no point in me buying it or making it.

I'm simply not into self-flagellation. I don't like mushrooms. I will eat them in a salad or on a pizza or whatever, but I'm never going to intentionally order them. That's just stupid.

Your're a strong man. Most of us live on the border of Wishful Thinking and Maybe This Time.

[Adam]

Your're a strong man. Most of us live on the border of Wishful Thinking and Maybe This Time.

Strengthened by my grandparents. Both my grandfather and my grandmother were completely convinced that they could somehow teach me to love beats as much as my grandfather did. And he grew some real beauts: literally beet roots the size of your fist and even your foot. But no matter how Mana prepared them, I simply never liked beets. Grandaddy absolutely loved beets in every possible configuration: stewed, pickled, raw out of the garden, you name it. I still just plain don't like beets. I'm sure as hell not going to devote any time, energy, or money to acquire beets for myself, at least not until the post-nuclear apocalypse and that's the only thing on the planet that can be eaten besides dining upon the microwaved corpses that surround me.

I'm in like Flynn for the first couple of months after the nuclear holocaust, however, because I love broccoli in almost every possible configuration. All the other folks who hate broccoli are screwed with me around.

[Frostbit]

Eggplant

[scott]

We've all done this - bought or ordered a food choice that we want to like but we just don't. Yet we keep trying for some inane reason. Whether we buy and pitch cabbage, health drinks, fish, okra or whatever, we've all got a list of failed foods that we keep trying over and over.

What's yours?

I will confess to an absurd spout problem. I like spouts. I even sprout my own from time to time. I simply don't eat them before they go bad. Yet I buy them way too often.

Squash. I keep thinking I will like it in some preparation. The truth is that I can stand a slight amount of squash in something like minestrone soup but that's it. Yet I keep attempting to bake, grill, or roast it. Insane.

Wine

I can handle a glass or two of Riesling sometimes, maybe a Bordeaux or Burgundy with a very heavy red sauce, but I simply cannot get excited over a Chardonnay, Merlot, or a Pinot Grigio. I think most people are like me and are just faking it because a huge glass of wine has as much alcohol as three Bud Lights but doesn't look as bad.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

Nothing. If I already know I don't like it, then I'm not going to punish myself with trying to grow it, and I'm not going to waste money buying it. Nothing on this planet will ever make me like sauerkraut; there's absolutely, positively no point in me buying it or making it.

I'm simply not into self-flagellation. I don't like mushrooms. I will eat them in a salad or on a pizza or whatever, but I'm never going to intentionally order them. That's just stupid.

+1. Why would I spend money TRYING to like something? If it's an "acquired taste," I'm perfectly content to leave it unacquired. Like raw fish.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

Wine

I can handle a glass or two of Riesling sometimes, maybe a Bordeaux or Burgundy with a very heavy red sauce, but I simply cannot get excited over a Chardonnay, Merlot, or a Pinot Grigio. I think most people are like me and are just faking it because a huge glass of wine has as much alcohol as three Bud Lights but doesn't look as bad.

I tried to cultivate a taste for "dry" wines (so much more sophisticated than beer or sweet wines) when I was young and gave a shit what other people thought. It was that effort that taught me that any taste that has to be acquired isn't worth it. And I agree that most people who order "good" wines are faking it. How could anyone actually prefer something that tastes like paint thinner? Give me that Bud Light or a glass of Riunite Lambrusco. I LIKE it. The fact that it doesn't cost $20 a glass (actually, I can usually get three BOTTLES of Ruinite for $20) is just a side benefit.

[Billy Jingo]

Bud Light?

Philistines.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

Bud Light?

Philistines.

Yeah, yeah. You go drink frou-frou beer with my sister. She always has some thick sweet crap with funny names, so I buy some Bud or Michelob for myself on my way out to the ranch.

[scott]

+1. Why would I spend money TRYING to like something? If it's an "acquired taste," I'm perfectly content to leave it unacquired. Like raw fish.

But then you miss out of the most awesomest Sushi and Sashimi ever!

More for me I guess.

[Billy Jingo]

Yeah, yeah. You go drink frou-frou beer with my sister. She always has some thick sweet crap with funny names, so I buy some Bud or Michelob for myself on my way out to the ranch.

Old joke that no longer applies because of all the great beers but I still like it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8aPABF7nW4

[scott]

I tried to cultivate a taste for "dry" wines (so much more sophisticated than beer or sweet wines) when I was young and gave a shit what other people thought. It was that effort that taught me that any taste that has to be acquired isn't worth it. And I agree that most people who order "good" wines are faking it. How could anyone actually prefer something that tastes like paint thinner? Give me that Bud Light or a glass of Riunite Lambrusco. I LIKE it. The fact that it doesn't cost $20 a glass (actually, I can usually get three BOTTLES of Ruinite for $20) is just a side benefit.

Dom Perignon and Crystal are the absolute worst. $100-300 per bottle and they cannot hold a candle to Martini & Rossi Asti Spumante. Yes, they are sweet - THAT'S THE POINT OF DESSERT.

[scott]

Bud Light?

Philistines.

I actually like Michelob Ultra better because this:




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[Billy Jingo]

9.8% !!!

Be sure you place the beer far from you so by the time you get up for the third, you realize you've probably had enough and sit back down.