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Kasha Varnishkas, has nothing to do with varnish
On 11/24/2017 12:40 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Fri 24 Nov 2017 11:55:27a, Casa de perritos felices told us...
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>> 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!
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>> https://gph.is/1XmzoZU
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> Thaht's priceless!
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Lol, I do my best, tnx!
;-)
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