Do you have good taste?

[Slim]

My taste buds are not real sensitive.

I have friends down in the New Orleans area that could drink a bottle of Tabasco without flinching, something I would never try, but I'm told that I like things moderately spicy.  I'm no piker, but I'm no Texan either.

According to my taste buds there are three kinds of coffee: strong, weak and bitter.  I don't know (or care) which mountain the beans were grown on or whether it was made in a machine in a fancy restaurant or in a tuna can over a campfire.  Coffee is coffee.

There are two kinds of wine: Pasta wine and sitting around wasting the afternoon wine.

There is one kind of beer: Pizza beer, this encompasses all the shades and brands.

There are two kinds of cigarettes: menthol and normal.

I can't tell if a meal is the product of hours of labor or if someone peeled the plastic back to vent.

Does this mean I'm easy to please?

[Apposite]

Clever words, entertaining to say the least!

[Aggie]

I have drunk beer out of blue longneck bottles.

[Apposite]

Hmmm ... what beer would that be?

[Aggie]

Bud Light Platium (6% acl so considered ale in Texas)

 

[Slim]

I've finally decided to admit that I don't like sweet potato chips or fries.  I've given them enough chances.

[Aggie]

I love sweet tator fries!

[Goldilocks46]

Yes, they're pretty good.

I don't care for the veggie chips, though, they're too hard and my teeth chip too easily.

[Baia]

My taste in food is pretty accepting.  I've been in and out of Weight Watchers for 2/3 of my life and I'm aware of healthy choices.  My family is pretty cosmopolitan about food and there is quite a world of food available in my community.  I know about herbs and spices and I'm not afraid to use them. I know about beer and wine and coffee and have been there and done that.

That being said,

• I do not find pain to be a favorite flavor. I enjoy a little heat, but I can't get beyond 3 stars when given the choice.
• Sour foods make my neck hurt.  Like I have permanent mumps.  I don't like sour pickles.  I cringe just thinking about a big old dill pickle.
• I do not like eating live animals.  If it is still pulsating with life although cut in thin and artful slices, I will take a pass.  If its little legs are still waving in the air, I will eat vegetables instead. Steak must be medium/rare.
• I used to hate Jello as a child, but now I can take it as dessert sometimes.  It is still not my food of choice.
• Although I am surrounded by gourmet coffee emporiums, I prefer perked Maxwell House.  Or Folger's Crystals.  Or Nescafe.  Mostly I am just cheap about coffee.  I can taste the difference, but I don't care that much.
• I am not an alcohol person.  I think it must be genetic.  One side of my family has a very high tolerance for alcohol and the other side is allergic.  I drink in public when the occasion is festive, but usually not more than one drink otherwise I am sorry.  Physically sorry.  But I took a wine course back in 1966 and had a certificate from the California State Wine Commission that used to hang over my kitchen stove.  I know about it.  I just can't drink it much.  I participated in a beer focus group that same year when bottled draft beer was just being marketed.  I preferred Lucky Draft.

When I was a child, my favorite dinner was meatloaf, baked potatoes and broccoli.  I still like all of these but  eat only the broccoli regularly by choice.  Meatloaf is a guilty pleasure and baked potato with everything is just a dream now.

With all the flavors of ice cream available, my favorite is Swan's vanilla.

With all the chocolate available, my favorite is See's brown sugar in milk chocolate.  I gave up Snickers several years ago because it was my favorite and I can't believe that I have never cheated once.  If I could only be that successful with other life choices.  

I can taste the difference between Pepsi and Coke and prefer Pepsi.  To me Coke tastes only like sweet water. I only drink diet Pepsi.  Mostly I drink tangerine flavored Talking Rain.  Sometimes with a little grape juice.  It tastes almost like wine without the unpleasant side effects for me.

I love hot toast and pie cherry jam.  I could eat it for dessert.  I do eat it for dessert.

I quit smoking 30 years ago.  I can't remember what that tasted like, but I switched to tea to get over the hump because I had a strong association between coffee and cigarettes at the time.

Lately I have been having fun building soups.  There are fewer utensils and pots to clean and lots of flavors to try.  I have written down some of the recipes as I am creating, but mostly every pot is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

I'm finding it harder to eat out when I know I can cook the same thing at home and it will taste better and cost less, too.  When dining on a cruise, I prefer the company and the service to much of the food.  It makes it easy to make those healthy choices.

It feels like I have substituted writing about food for actually eating it today.  And that's a GOOD THING!

[Slim]

I'd rather eat it.

[CWO3ROBBIE]

Me too. And I really really like drinking beer more than writing about it. Especially Foster's Premium Ale in the green oil can. 

[Slim]

I just read about the testing of this year's hottest pepper.

Definitely not for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinidad_Moruga_Scorpion