On Tue, 4 Aug 2020 15:52:28 -0500, Hank Rogers >
wrote:

>Bruce wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
>Hows about *american* cheese Druce?

What he really had in mind is dick cheese.