One time on Usenet, "KevinS" > said:
> Litttle Malice wrote on 9/18/2006:

> > Our hostess also served dish of pickled beets. After lunch,
> > as we were putting the leftovers away, she asked me if I
> > liked them. "No", I replied, "I don't eat dirt chunks". She
> > seemed puzzled, I don't think she got the connection. I
> > noticed that no one else ate them either...
>
> I've become more partial to beets - pickled or not - in recent
> years. Not my favorite by any means. We didn't have them at
> home growing up. My only memory of them being served is on
> the dinner tray in the hospital after I had my appendix removed
> at age 10. A really big pile of them. My current level of fondness
> for them is small doses at long intervals.

You know me, Kev -- to each their own. :-) But I've just never been
able to stomach beets, no matter how they're prepared. Mom used to
pickle them, or serve them smothered in vinegar. Yuck, they still
tasted like dirt to me...

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"Little Malice" is Jani in WA
~ mom, Trollop, novice cook ~