On 21:17 4 Aug 2020, Bruce said:
> 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.

I draw the line a very low fat cottage cheese.