On Apr 4, 11:09*am, "Dora" > wrote:
> phaeton wrote:
> > Michael Nielsen wrote:
> >> On Apr 3, 4:54 pm, Chemo the Clown > wrote:
> >>> I hate boiled okra and aspargus. More so the boiled okra.
>
> >> Have you tried getting organic green asparagus, cutting off the woody
> >> end, sauteeing them slowly in butter untill tender and slightly
> >> caramelized? Serve with a nice rib eye steak.
>
> > Sweet Potatoes, and/or Yams. *I don't care if they're two different
> > things and people always mix them up. *Mom says that even as a baby
> > i'd spit them out.
>
> > Every year, round X-giving time, i mention that i don't like them, and
> > someone always says "oh, because you haven't had them the way -I- make
> > them!! Nobody knows the RIGHT WAY. *I know the right way to do them,
> > and you will love them I promise!". *And every year, I try them to be
> > *fair. And every year I discover that everyone prepares them the same
> > way and I still don't like them.
>
> > I haven't had okra, and i didn't like lima beans as a kid. *I've been
> > meaning to try lima beans again, as I might like them now.
>
> > -J
>
> LOL - my son despises sweet potatoes - he, too, has hated them since he
> was introduced to them as an infant. *Forget the brown sugar, the orange
> juice, the marshmallows (ick) and forget I tried to brainwash him one
> year by telling him they were parsnips, fixed a different way. *No sweet
> potatoes at his house, that's for sure.
>
> Dora

I hated them til I tried them roasted like potatoes, and seasoned with
onion garlic salt and pepper. Whole different veg. Ask him to try
them that way once, one bite only. If he still doesn't like them,
there'll be more for me!

maxine in ri