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Kasha Varnishkas, has nothing to do with varnish
On 11/23/2017 4:25 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 23 Nov 2017 03:46:46p, l not -l told us...
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>> On 23-Nov-2017, wrote:
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>>> On Thursday, November 23, 2017 at 1:31:04 PM UTC-6, Bruze wrote:
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>>>> 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".
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>>> 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.
>> For me, it was fish eye soup offered by ROK soldiers (South
>> Korean). Broth with fish eyes floating in/on it. I really don't
>> want to eat anything that is looking at me when I eat it.
>>
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> It would be worse if they were winking at you. :-)
>
LOL!
https://gph.is/1XmzoZU
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