What about asparagus, and its tendency in some people to produce ‘funny’ smelling wee? That’s a genetic thing, I believe, like whether you taste sprouts as bitter or not.
Is it the smell that's genetic or the ability to detect it?
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What about asparagus, and its tendency in some people to produce ‘funny’ smelling wee? That’s a genetic thing, I believe, like whether you taste sprouts as bitter or not.
Is it the smell that's genetic or the ability to detect it?
Good question, raisingirl. I’d assumed it was a genetic trait that caused one to produce the chemical that causes the smell. I’ll have to look it up.
Possum was weaned on mashed banana, pureed carrots, mashed avocado. Won't eat any of those now and carrots have to be raw or roasted with honey.
We once had a lodger for a few weeks after he started work at the same company and needed to wait for his new flat purchase to go thru. His mum brought him up on meat and 2 veg which had to be peas or carrots with potatoes too. I made a shepherd's pie one night and told him it was a bit different as I'd sliced the potatoes on a mandolin and layered them with a dotting of butter rather than mashing them.
He loved it. Had second helpings - and then I told him the "meat" was onions, lentils, mushrooms, carrots, garlic...... Dismayed doesn't begin to cover it.
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It doesn't always follow that what you ate as a child has a bearing on your likes/dislikes as an adult. My parents were keen on Tripe and onions - my sisters and I hated it then and have never touched it since escaping from the parental home. It's also true that methods of cooking have changed and so that comes into the equation. Pots and veg ( of any variety ) boiled - often to death - only when you learned to cook yourself did you realise that it was possible to enjoy VEG rather than mush The production methods for ready foods has also changed - even something as basic as tinned Baked Beans are totally different to 30 years ago. Not particularly better either IMHO.
Worcester sauce is another 'marmite ' thing. Essential on beans on toast or cheese on toast. No other earthly use. OH hates it except on shepherd's pie - an abomination!
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“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
We once had a lodger for a few weeks after he started work at the same company and needed to wait for his new flat purchase to go thru. His mum brought him up on meat and 2 veg which had to be peas or carrots with potatoes too. I made a shepherd's pie one night and told him it was a bit different as I'd sliced the potatoes on a mandolin and layered them with a dotting of butter rather than mashing them.
He loved it. Had second helpings - and then I told him the "meat" was onions, lentils, mushrooms, carrots, garlic...... Dismayed doesn't begin to cover it.
My parents were keen on Tripe and onions - my sisters and I hated it then and have never touched it since escaping from the parental home.
It's also true that methods of cooking have changed and so that comes into the equation.
Pots and veg ( of any variety ) boiled - often to death - only when you learned to cook yourself did you realise that it was possible to enjoy VEG rather than mush
The production methods for ready foods has also changed - even something as basic as tinned Baked Beans are totally different to 30 years ago. Not particularly better either IMHO.