"OmManiPadmeOmelet" > wrote in message
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> Geez...
> Reading this thread makes me realize just how lucky I was to have the
> parents I had. We eat a great variety of foods, I love to cook and
> I'll
> try nearly anything at least once! There are a few foods I just cannot
> enjoy but I'm still always looking for new stuff to try. <G>

Yes, the influence of parents has been alluded to by several in this
thread, iirc. That's a very good point. My mother was a good cook, but
she wasn't into exotic stuff, but she had a nice and large repertoire of
varied foods, so I guess I just got used to seeing some things all the
time.

We kids often had the job of peeling, especially before a Jewish
Holiday, most especially before Passover, when there is a LOT of cooking
to do. We would all sit around, wearing aprons, and peeling tons of
fruits and vegetables: apples, oranges, potatoes, carrots, parsnips,
parsley roots, and on and on. It was actually a lot of fun.

I never personally peeled any garlic when I was a kid, but I watched my
mother do it often enough.

I don't know, it's just that garlic seems almost like an onion. Could
you imagine someone in America saying that they'd never seen an onion
before?