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Offline Mark 79

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Re: 3 missed meals…
« Reply #30 on: November 06, 2025, 08:57:30 PM »
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  • Everyone's tastes are different, but I find cooked vegetables in large quantities to be nasty.  The other night, I cooked a mix of corn and green beans, in hopes of making my diet a bit more wholesome even than it already is, and I found them repulsive.  I am finishing them off by having just a small serving, a couples of spoonsful, with each meal with which they go well, as I do not believe in wasting food.  They will last me for several days that way.  I won't be repeating that experiment.
    The source of vegetables matters.

    For example, "big box" grocery store vegetables are often bland or worse, bitter and nasty tasting.

    I started shopping at "locovore" and "organic" stores and non-palatable veggies became enjoyable.

    A step further, we began growing our own veggies organically and the flavors improved dramatically.  For example, our Japanese heirloom turnips are sweet and nutty tasting and even the green tops are delicious compared to the nasty bitter Safeway turnips of my youth.

    If you have the time and means required to tend a garden, it is two steps up from big box fodder.

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    Re: 3 missed meals…
    « Reply #31 on: November 06, 2025, 08:58:24 PM »
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  • Maybe it was the kind and quality of the corn and beans, and how they were cooked.

    Also, the less often one eats, and the less seasoned or sweetened (good tasting) food one eats, the better things taste. So, the corn and beans may taste better if it was the only thing you have to eat after not eating all day.

    No, I've been that way ever since I was a kid.  I was once at a family reunion and someone brought a green bean casserole.  I thought it was one of the nastiest things I'd ever seen.  The smell is a lot of it.  The smell of hot chlorophyll is nauseating to me.  The corn itself is fine.

    As I said, everyone's tastes are different.


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    Re: 3 missed meals…
    « Reply #32 on: Yesterday at 12:12:13 AM »
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  • Canned turnip greens is horrible. Any fresh green from the garden is so much better, even if too spicy or bitter for my liking. I used to hate beets (canned from the store) but fresh cooked are pleasant. Not everything grown in the garden is good, but that's due to varying growing conditions.
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    Re: 3 missed meals…
    « Reply #33 on: Yesterday at 09:02:51 AM »
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  • Canned turnip greens is horrible. Any fresh green from the garden is so much better, even if too spicy or bitter for my liking. I used to hate beets (canned from the store) but fresh cooked are pleasant. Not everything grown in the garden is good, but that's due to varying growing conditions.
    Again, that's where people's tastes differ.  I am very fond of Glory Foods turnip greens and mixed greens, they are heavily seasoned in Southern "soul food" fashion (don't knock it till you've tried it).  For some reason they don't have that hot chlorophyll odor to them, must be all the iron as well as the spices.

    Mayonnaise is my kryptonite.  I got sick on it one time and can't even stand the sight of it.  Yet in the DC area, getting a hamburger without mayonnaise takes an act of Congress (probably a fitting metaphor), folks up there just think of it as an intrinsic part of the sandwich, and you have to clobber them over the head to get them to omit it.  Some dietary habits are regional.  Might be a Chesapeake Bay thing or something.

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    Re: 3 missed meals…
    « Reply #34 on: Yesterday at 12:06:33 PM »
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  • Again, that's where people's tastes differ.  I am very fond of Glory Foods turnip greens and mixed greens, they are heavily seasoned in Southern "soul food" fashion (don't knock it till you've tried it).  For some reason they don't have that hot chlorophyll odor to them, must be all the iron as well as the spices.
    Soul food greens are very easy to make (use crock pot) and taste much better than canned.  Even if you start with frozen or fresh already cleaned and cut greens.  I encourage you to try them.  Canned food is really bad for you...


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    Re: 3 missed meals…
    « Reply #35 on: Yesterday at 05:11:03 PM »
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  • Soul food greens are very easy to make (use crock pot) and taste much better than canned.  Even if you start with frozen or fresh already cleaned and cut greens.  I encourage you to try them.  Canned food is really bad for you...

    What's your opinion on the sugar diet?

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    Re: 3 missed meals…
    « Reply #36 on: Yesterday at 05:34:12 PM »
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  • What's your opinion on the sugar diet?
    Never heard of it.
    My attitude about food is this: if God didn't make it, I don't eat it.

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    Re: 3 missed meals…
    « Reply #37 on: Yesterday at 10:08:55 PM »
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  • if God didn't make it, I don't eat it.
    So you're a raw foodist?
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    Re: 3 missed meals…
    « Reply #38 on: Today at 03:12:24 AM »
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  • So you're a raw foodist?
    Never heard that term before.
    Why must everything have a label?