SC - Spices and sensitive palates (and other

[Peters, Rise J.]

Kyhe wrote:

<<ANYTHING served with a quantity of spicing exceeding
the normal modern palate is best served with accompanying
admonitions.

Agreed.  But...

<<Server: "My lords and ladies, for some palates the cook may
have been a little heavy-handed with the ginger in
this dish."

Can we come up with an alternative phrasing that makes clear that it wasn't 
the cook making a mistake, but simply a correctly-prepared dish that some 
may find surprising?  "Good gentles, this dish, prepared according to a 
recipe handed down to the cook by his grandmother, includes enough ginger to 
wake the dead."  Or something of that sort.<g>  In either case, folk may 
grouse that they don't like ginger, but there's a difference between knowing 
that you don't like a particular dish that was fixed correctly, and thinking 
that the dish was ruined because the cook erred.


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