Cooking vs Restaurants

[Spongebob]

People - vegan or normal - are allowed to have avocado on their sandwiches, and I wish them nothing but happiness with it. I also wish they’d belt up with telling me I don’t know what I’m missing.

Boru

Yes, I can understand how frustrating this can be, but it can be coming from a place where someone really wants and hopes you will enjoy something as much as they do.  A good way to respond is to mention something you like very much but you know they don't to demonstrate that people just have different tastes.  Vegemite, maybe?

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Dining at fine restaurants exposes us to dishes we can then learn to make at home. Otherwise when we dine out it is for special dishes that cannot be easily replicated at home.

Yup.  I've "stolen" tons of recipes.  (Our latest coup was figuring how to make bánh mì  at home.    )

That is certainly one advantage to eating out.  I have also recreated a lot of dishes at home.  Sometimes I've had to look up a recipe but it's oh, so satisfying to be able to recreate it as good or even better than it was at the restaurant.