On Mon 30 Jun 2008 06:03:01a, Jean B. told us...

> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>> On Mon 30 Jun 2008 05:35:41a, Jean B. told us...
>>
>>> Janet Wilder wrote:
>>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>> On Sun 29 Jun 2008 06:15:39p, Julia Altshuler told us...
>>>>>
>>>>>> Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>>>> I can certainly understand that since it was, for whatever reason,
>>>>>>> an issue from early childhood. I don't know what causes it, but
>>>>>>> we all seem to have some food averesions since birth. Even though
>>>>>>> I have always liked mayonnaise, I do remember not liking larger
>>>>>>> amounts of it when I was a child, though I liked the flavor. One
>>>>>>> of my food aversions, one I never grew out of, was to mayonnaise.
>>>>>>> I
>>>>>> suppose I've grown out of it a little as I can now stand small
>>>>>> amounts of it if it's on something in a restaurant, but I never buy
>>>>>> it or use it
>>>>>> myself.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It occurs to me that most food aversions are to things that are
>>>>>> unusual to young eater, slimy, strongly flavored or green.
>>>>>> Mayonnaise doesn't go into any of those categories. I wonder why
>>>>>> mayonnaise is a common food aversion then. It's common in North
>>>>>> America and Europe, the same texture as a milk shake, mild, and
>>>>>> white.
>>>>> Aversions can be strange. I have an aversion to drinking milk in
>>>>> the entire range of skim to whole milk, yet I enjoy whole milk eaten
>>>>> on cereal, and I certainly use it in cooking an baking. Having said
>>>>> that, I actually prefer cream on cereal over milk.
>>>>>
>>>>> OTOH, I absolutely love buttermilk for drinking as well as in
>>>>> recipes.
>>>> When I was a small child I had an aversion to both ketchup and
>>>> mayonnaise. My dad would mix the two together and call it "Russian
>>>> Dressing" and that I liked. Still do, but I put a little sweet pickle
>>>> relish and a drop of lemon juice in it now.
>>>>
>>>> I love fresh tomato. I love cooked tomato. I like ketchup on my
>>>> burgers and mixed with horseradish for cold shrimp. I love tomato
>>>> sauce. I cannot abide tomato juice. That's really, really weird,
>>>> dontcha think?
>>>>
>>> Not really. Tomato juice tastes kind-of... flat. (I don't have
>>> an equal dislike of V-8 though.)
>>>
>>
>> I don't like tomato juice, but I very much like V-8, expecially the
>> "spicy" version.
>>
>> What I would really like to know how to make is the tomato juice
>> cocktail that my parents made every year from the tomatoes grown in the
>> their garden. They would can many quarts of it each summer. It had a
>> very special taste, and it's one of the few recipes that I failed to
>> get from my mother. I'm not sure it was every actually written down.
>>
> Hmmm. When I am next organizing my pamphlets... That sounds like
> something that might have been in a WWII-era publication.
>

Could have been. The recipe came from my father's mother who would have
been making it down on the farm during WWII.

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Wayne Boatwright
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