[Sca-cooks] snails and puppy dog tails...

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Mirianna wrote:
>Maybe it has become a more northern Outlands thing, which is to bad, we have
>some very good cooks here. But Really picky eaters. Slipping something in
>here and there can work, but it better be subtle.

I consider myself a picky eater:
I don't want high fructose corn syrup in my comestibles.
I don't like to eat things with artificial butter flavor (one reason 
i am never going to eat in an Applebees again, once was one time too 
many, the mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables were all saturated 
with artificial butter flavor, patooey! I asked from some without and 
they looked at me like i had two heads.)
I won't eat spongy white bread, although it is fun to make little 
sculptures of it mixed with white glue.
I only drink Starbucks when there isn't a place to get real coffee 
nearby (i.e., on long freeway trips; a cup of Starbuck Coffee with a 
shot or two of espresso is still weaker than a cup of Peets, which is 
my usual choice.)
And i only eat fast food when under extreme duress, and only from 2 
or 3 companies. (no KFC U, Taco Hell, Micky D, Burger Grunge, Jack in 
the Back, etc.); on my long road trips, i pack food in a cooler to 
eat for a few days.

The people you describe don't sound like picky eaters to me. They 
sound closed minded and lacking in any sense of culinary adventure.
-- 
Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]
the persona formerly known as Anahita