Recognizing my own bias or prejudice .....

@jakeduck
You can re educate your taste buds. You have to be willing to try new things. All my healthy foods I happen to love but I also love cheese cake and pizza. The first time I tasted deer meat (yes Bambi) I didn’t like it so never ate it again but at least I tried it. I have tried bluefish several times and still don’t like it. Wouldn’t try sushi for so many years....took the plunge...oh my so good! Now eat it semi regularly. My love for wine grew over many years from a wine spritzer to a sweetish rose and now only dry whites and full bodied reds. See, there is hope for you...the trick is to get these foods cooked properly and try someone’s else’s if you can.... like the dreaded Octopus.
It ain’t gonna kill ya.

FL Mary

@imallears
My taste buds are as educated as they care to get thank you very much.
Andrew Zimmerman I’m not.
Since your the one thats “willing to try new things”
You certainly wouldn’t turn down delicacies.
How about a nice juicy eyeball. I saw some Eskimos eating eyeballs on a biography special. They are a bit slippery.
Tuna eyes are common in Japan and are said to taste like squid. So since you like squid your already ahead of the game. I know you like Sashimi, however you should cook your tuna eyes, they are prone to lots of bacteria. If you need a recipe I have one.
Goat, fish, sheep, pig, eyes, all delicacies. Who wouldn’t want to expand their horizons, well, other than myself that is.
Or how about a plate of puppy dog, kitty or some nice creamy brains of pigs, squirrels, rabbits, horses, cattle, monkeys, chickens, fish, lamb and goats. A nice side of spiders might go good with the brains or perhaps a piece of maggot cheese, oh, that’s been outlawed, drat the luck.
Fear not, I haven’t forgot your a wine aficionado
so here is a link to a nice wine that will make your meal even more scrumptious. You did say wine improves the dinning experience didn’t you.
https://www.culinaryschools.org/blog/baby-mice-wine-health-tonic/
Worry not, I haven’t forgot about desert. How about some Akutaq or in case your not familiar with it Eskimo ice cream. Here’s a recipe in case you want it tonight.
https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Akutaq_EskimoIceCream.htm
I have plenty more wondrous delights but I didn’t want to overwhelm you. Let me know your favorites.

Bon Appetit

Jake

@jakeduck
I have my limits...really...baby mice wine!..omg...however the modern version Eskimo ice cream is fine. I will try most things that I recognize but would really want to know what I am eating....will stick to my preferred diet . Thanks but no thanks. Wonder what they would say about corn dogs and Taco Bell....the home of Unrecognizable meat food products.
Remember Anthony Bourdain? Brave soul he was.....

My turn to “yuck”
FL Mary

@ihtak46
Let me offer my condolences regarding your daughter. I know many people who have lost children of all ages, mostly from Status Epilepticus or Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy. My girlfriend died in an car accident at 17. As horrible as that was I know it pails in comparison to your loss. Somethings you never get over. Many friends have told me there is no greater loss than the loss of a child. If I knew the person I would write a letter telling the parents how much happiness their child brought into my life.
Jake

@gingerw There is definitely prejudice against overweight people. When I was much heavier I felt like some people acted like being fat was contagious! Some also seemed to treat me like they thought that since I was so overweight that I must be of low intellect, and some treated me like they thought was sort of pathetic. Now that I am substantially less heavy (I never think of myself as anything other than overweight, still, although my BMI is only about 26 now) there is a definite difference in the treatment I get.
I was not overweight before I had children, I gained weight with the pregnancies and not only didn't lose it, but being at home caused me to continue to gain weight. As much as I loved my children, I was bored. I should not have quit work entirely but in those days companies were not as accommodating as they are now. I am the type of person who enjoyed the positive feedback I received from a job.
JK

@contentandwell
Had not checked into this subject in a while, just saw your comment. Of course being fat is not contagious, that is ridiculous. However, some time ago I read that there seems to be a correlation between you and the body type of the people you surround yourself with, namely, if most of your friends are slender, you are more likely to be slender as well. Whether this is because you seek similar looking friends in the first place, or whether you try to be more like them, the effect seems to be the same. Supposedly it also works that you are more likely to gain weight if most people around you are heavy.
Also, while everyone is different, and makes their own choices regarding health and weight, I am somewhat grumpy. On both of my recent flights I was stuck next to a) a very tall, very hefty, young man, and b) a very, very, large lady needing a seat belt extender. While it is their business how they got to that point, I was not pleased to have to share my already shrinking seat with overflowing thighs, and other assorted excess body projections, given that I find sitting for long periods difficult anyway, and need some space to change positions from time to time. I also seem to be the one passenger sure to have a wailing baby close by... but that’s another story. Probably for my next 10 hour overseas flight!

@contentandwell
Had not checked into this subject in a while, just saw your comment. Of course being fat is not contagious, that is ridiculous. However, some time ago I read that there seems to be a correlation between you and the body type of the people you surround yourself with, namely, if most of your friends are slender, you are more likely to be slender as well. Whether this is because you seek similar looking friends in the first place, or whether you try to be more like them, the effect seems to be the same. Supposedly it also works that you are more likely to gain weight if most people around you are heavy.
Also, while everyone is different, and makes their own choices regarding health and weight, I am somewhat grumpy. On both of my recent flights I was stuck next to a) a very tall, very hefty, young man, and b) a very, very, large lady needing a seat belt extender. While it is their business how they got to that point, I was not pleased to have to share my already shrinking seat with overflowing thighs, and other assorted excess body projections, given that I find sitting for long periods difficult anyway, and need some space to change positions from time to time. I also seem to be the one passenger sure to have a wailing baby close by... but that’s another story. Probably for my next 10 hour overseas flight!

@ellerbracke
Hi
I hear ya. Crying babies I’ll always forgive. Kicking the back of my seat constantly when the parent is right there is unforgivable.
Sitting next to obese or otherwise annoying people is something we really can’t do anything about unless there happens to be an empty seat. It’s a crap shoot when flying alone and so much better when family is along.
Several years ago coming back from New York with my daughter, son in law and 2 grandkids ((teens), my granddaughter and I were not allowed on the flight because we already boarded. My son in law, who didn’t realize we were not following them in, finally came back out when he saw a woman and a young girl sitting in our seats. We were delayed 20 minutes until the other woman, obviously the grandmother and her granddaughter , came walking off the plane. We found out she was on the wrong flight but had the same seat numbers.
How did she get on in the first place?

Often wish I could teleport myself to my destination. But then I have had the greatest people to sit next to. When smoking was allowed on flights, a women deliberately would not put out her cigarette as we were prepared to buckle up and take off. She smoked it down to the end and then put it out. They couldn’t do anything back then. So we were delayed. I was coming back from Vegas and I kept hoping she had “crapped out” at the dice table lol. They shouldn’t allow drunks on the flights. Don’t know if that has changed.

FL Mary