Cooking vs Restaurants

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Its interesting how people can be so emotional about what they eat.  I can understand not liking the taste or texture of something, but I know people who get violent when certain foods are suggested.  It's irrational, but what provokes such outbursts?

Speaking of, I recently ate at a Japanese place my daughter took us to.  I got a bowl of soup with several things in it, including fish cakes.  Fish cakes sound appetizing; they sort of invoke thoughts of crab cakes, but they aren't anything like crab cakes.  I wouldn't call it objectionable, but it wasn't altogether pleasant either.  I suppose I could try them again, as foods tend to grow on me after a while.

I don’t outburst when someone suggests pizza. I do, however, get a little cranky when they try to pressure me into it, by saying things like, ‘But you haven’t had it from [insert name of their favourite pizzeria here]’ or ‘But I make it [an interminably dull recitation of their own special pizza recipe]’.

‘I don’t like pizza’ seems to be one of the hardest English sentences for people to understand.

Boru