[graciegirl]

I think, now that I am fortified with Sweeties good coffee, that the point of this thread was simply obsession with what we don't like to eat.

It was drilled into me, my cousins, aunts and heirs and assigns, that nobody was interested in what you didn't "LIKE" to eat. If you simply didn't like it and it was served to you than quietly leave it on your plate.

As an adult sometimes I am faced with an array of foods at a pot luck or party that I do not know the contents of and I have a deadly shellfish allergy. Most of the time, I munch on safe stuff like pretzels and chips and leave the dips and combinations alone.

When I take something to a potluck I make a card and identify what it is for others in the same boat.

When people make a big deal of what they don't like, I hear my grandmother saying, keep quiet about it, you will change someone's elses mind about it and it is decent good clean and well prepared food.

I was born just after the depression and during the second world war and some kinds of food were hard to come by at that time. Butter and sugar were rationed and meat was in short supply, being sent to feed the troups.

We Catholics were told not to waste food as children..

I am pretty good at making something different from leftovers that is yummy.