[Sca-cooks] Meat and potatoes

[Susan Lord Williams]

People claim they are “open minded” but when I serve something that is not “meat and potatoes" they have an excuse for not eating it.

Here in South America, the other night a guest from USA took a platter of fish (a 15th century recipe, which was excellent) to the kitchen and threw it out. When I discovered this I explained to her that although it was not to her liking my poor cleaning lady would loved it. 

A golf pro from the states arrived this week. He related that his colleagues will not eat the scrambled eggs offered at the buffet breakfast in his hotel. I have no clue what could be wrong with scrambled eggs. Perhaps you can enlighten me.

Recently American guests critized breakfast buffets in hotels in this country because soft boiled eggs were not offered but chocolate kuchen was. 

The golf pro had one more incident to relate. An American colleague of his asked one of the caddies how cold it gets here at Christmas time. - Jajaja - there was no way anyone could make him understand that here the world is upside down as it is summer here.

The golf pro summed it up: such people believe the world revolves around them. 

I find all this most difficult - almost impossible when trying to get my friends to try something beside meat and potatoes but I feel your surveys related to this most interesting because like you I toil over dishes and want to know how they come off but at times I feel I should not insist as my potential eater only wants meat and potatoes and the world to revolve around him..