On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 11:39:46 -0800 (PST), "
> wrote:

>On Thursday, November 23, 2017 at 1:31:04 PM UTC-6, Bruze wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2017 17:07:10 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
>> > wrote:
>?
>> >Many years ago I was a guest in a Jewish home for Thanksgiving, as
>> >was another gentile. They had laid out a veritable feast, including
>> >kasha varnishkes. The foods were sumptious except for this dish.
>> >Both the other gentile guest and I agreed later that we found it
>> >disgusting. Alpo would have been a far better alternative. The
>> >family devoured it completely, so it must be an acquired taste.
>>
>> "disgusting" is overly dramatic. The dish has no strong or potentially
>> offensive flavours in it, so the worst it could be is bland or boring,
>> not "disgusting".
>>
>>
>Oh, I don't know. I've eaten some foods that people were simply swooning
>over that I found absolutely disgusting. Disgusting enough I had to
>spit out what I had sampled. Boiled chittlins' come readily to mind.

Yes, but buckwheat, pasta, fat, onion? What can be disgusting about
that? Unless the cook is terrible, but I thought we were talking about
the dish as such, not the cook.