On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 13:09:06 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 3:59:11 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 12:28:19 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 2:59:16 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>> >> On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 11:49:03 -0700 (PDT), "
>> >> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Heck, I always thought it was just me who thought brown rice was astringent.
>> >> >Nobody else ever said anything about it so I just thought it was my taste
>> >> >buds and just shied away from brown rice.
>> >>
>> >> Astringent? Maybe because of all the arsenic in American rice? I've
>> >> never had astringent brown rice.
>> >
>> >Everybody's sensory equipment is different. Perhaps you are less sensitive
>> >to that taste. Perhaps you enjoy it.
>>
>> Astringent makes you pull a face if it's strong. Brown rice doesn't
>> have that at all for me. It's not that I enjoy it.
>
>I also find some aged cheeses astringent. It took me a long while to
>warm up to Gruyere.

And you still don't like blue vein cheese, IIRC. I haven't yet met a
cheese I didn't like.