On Sat 03 May 2008 08:13:07p, PeterLucas told us...

> Wayne Boatwright > wrote in
> 3.184:
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>>
>> Yes, he could be, but I suppose it's partly my fault. I've been an
>> enabler for too many years (16). He has had many issues resulting
>> from a ginuinely traumatic childhood. It can really affect the rest
>> of your life in one wayor another.
>>
>>> Does he have *real* adverse reactions to certain foods? Or is it just
>>> a spoilt child thing?
>>
>> Absolutely none. It's all in his head. Oh, he wasn't spoiled, just
>> never exposed or forced to taste or eat anything he didn't want to.
>> As a child growing up, he subsisted on hot dogs, balogna, and peanut
>> butter.
>
>
> As a kid, we got bugger all food. And we were always hungry. Probably
> one reason I hate seeing people waste food, I love cooking food and
> giving it to all my friends.
>

I can really understand that.

>> Actually, he's not a DQ at all. Apart from his food issues, he's
>> really quite average/normal. He's a CPA, very bright, top of his
>> class, etc. He's a very caring and giving person.
>
>
> LOL!! I'll get him to do my tax, then shout him a hotdog with the works
>:-)

He'd likely do it, too.


>>>>> Time to take a half soggy hotdog and start slapping him around the
>>>>> head with it :-)
>>>>
>>>> I've been tempted!
>
>
> 50 flicks under the left nostril with a soggy hotdog!! LOL!!

hehehe

>> If the issues went beyond food, I'd probably do just that, but I don't
>> mind the food issues that much. I've worked around them, and as long
>> as I, too, have what I want, it's not really a big deal.
>
>
> My CA wife was a supposed vego. She didn't want any meat in the house
> (even tried to turn her 3 cats into vegos!! thy used to *love* me when
> she went out!! ;-), and didn't want any meat at our wedding reception,
> only vego dishes. I finally dragged it out of her that *she* was going
> to be the only vego there. You think the reception was going to be only
> vego dishes?? HELL NO!!
>
> LOL!! Yeah, right........ have 60 skydiving buddies jump into a vego
> feast!!

Yep, I can just picture that!

>> You absolutely do! When I was in Sidney some years ago I tried quite
>> a few different sausages and loved every one of them.
>>
>> The stores here offer very little variety in the way of sausages.
>> However, within a few blocks of my office is a sausage shop that makes
>> all their own products and they are wonderful. The background is
>> mostly German and Eastern European. There is also an Italian shop
>> that has a huge variety of Italian sausages and meats. Glad I found
>> both of them!>
>
>
> YUM!!!
>

Yeah, they're really delicious.

>>> If the damn post didn't take so damn long... I'd send some over.
>>
>> Yep, I'm afraid they would be fit to eat by the time they arrived.
>> :-(
>
>
> You'd smell them before you'd see them!!

Ugh!


> Last time I went to the Barossa Valley, I found some absolute crackers
> there.
>
> Chicken with spinach and pinenut sausages.

That sounds really good!

> So now my sister (who lives down there) has taken to sending me up the
> empty wrappers and photos of here chomping on the snags..... the
> biatch!! :-)

Mean, isn't she?

> I'll be down there next month :-)
>
>
>
>>
>>> (F*** me!! If some *** guy was to walk up to me and say, "Hey, I'd
>>> like to shout you a 450g medium rare rib fillet on the bone because
>>> I'd love to eat with someone who really appreciates their food.'.....
>>> I'd shout the guy Shirley Temples all night!!.......... (or whatever
>>> they drank!!)
>>
>> So would I!
>>
>
>
> I actually had to Google what's in a Shirley Temple. I just remember
> seeing "Radar O'Rielly" on MASH ordering one at the bar everytime.
>
> Lots of different varieties.
>
>

Ostensibly, the original drink was invented by one of the bartender's at
Chasen's restaurant in Beverly Hills, especially for Shirley Temple when
she went there to eat.

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Wayne Boatwright
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