On Jul 10, 8:56*pm, Bryan > wrote:
> On Jul 10, 7:34*pm, Janet Bostwick > wrote:
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> > On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:14:39 -0700 (PDT), John Kuthe
> > *snip
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> > >Bryan, I was thinking about your "tastes" as I made and enjoyed
> > >another batch of my curried chicken, which I know you'd hate. I always
> > >say that I've never had anything gross that you've prepared and that
> > >is true. But I've also never had anything exceptionally or creatively
> > >spiced or flavored that you have made either! Like my curried chicken.
> > >Your "tastes" are very simple and pedestrian, not that there is
> > >anything wrong with that, but there is also not anything exceptionally
> > >right with it either. Good food is inherently delicious with the most
> > >basic of preparation methods, and this is what you excel at because of
> > >your hypersensitive senses of smell and flavor.
>
> > >I finally get it!
>
> > >John Kuthe...
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> > Regarding hypersensitive smell, it's real. *I suffered such for a
> > period of months and it is awful *You pick up notes in foods that no
> > one else knows is there or you'll pick up on something so exaggerated
> > as to be impossible to tolerate. *After living through that, I am now
> > very tolerant of other people's likes and dislikes. *I believe that
> > everyone is operating with different tuning on their senses.
>
> You are lucky, Janet. *I don't know what caused your temporary
> condition (a mini stroke?), but you're lucky that it passed. *I love
> pinto and red kidney beans, and like many other types of beans, but
> there is something in great northern beans that is unique, and I can
> hardly tolerate being in the same room with them. *To a lesser extent,
> the *Brassica oleracea*s are also repugnant. *I can lightly sautee
> asparagus for my wife, and I find it only mildly unpleasant, but open
> a can of asparagus, and I feel like throwing up. *Coincidentally, I
> just overheard my so talking about green apple flavored sorbet. *I
> like green apples and watermelons, but artificial green apple or
> watermelon flavor grosses me out.
>
> > Janet US
>
> --Bryan

Artificial watermelon is gross IMHO too. Artificial green apple I
don't know. The best artificial fruit flavor I think is raspberry! I
actually like it as much as real raspberries, I think.

And don't even get me started about artificial chocolate flavor! Ugh!

John Kuthe...