Julia Altshuler wrote:
> A customer comes into the wine and cheese shop and asks for pate. We

> have "tres cornichons" pates. I ask her how much she wants, slice it

> for her, weigh it, etc. Of all the items in the store, I like most
of
> them, or, if I don't care for it, one of the other sales clerks does.

> The exception is pate. None of us can stand it. We don't even like
the
> smell.

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Seriously, I think people who like that stuff have altered taste buds
or olfactory nerves. They have to.

-L.