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Default How forthcoming are you recipe ingredients

On 2017-01-16 8:23 PM, koko wrote:
>
> Knowing certain people's likes and dislikes, and I'm not talking about
> allergies, how forthcoming are you about the ingredients in some of
> your recipes.
> Case in point, if I told my husband I was serving him hummus, he'd not
> eat it, but I tell him it's bean dip and he devoures it.
> This is just one example of soooo many I could share.
> Do you do this too?
>

Another story:
A former Moslem colleague loved Chinese food conveniently ignorant of
the fact that they used pork fat in the woks. At his farewell lunch,
arranged by a Chinese colleague, he scoffed down pork dishes thinking
they were beef.