# Trying new food **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [October 22, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030 "2021-10-22T21:29:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/41 "2021-10-25T17:31:48Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Seriously, generic pop-tarts? I never imagined such things even existed! I think they were called “toaster pastries” and came in a box of 96. Considering what the camp cost, I was flabbergasted at the crap food that was served up. And “for safety reasons” no one was allowed to bring on ANY outside food. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/42 "2021-10-25T17:37:49Z")
I wonder how many remember the very first Pop-Tart commercial ca. 1965? Fruit peddler pushes his cart through the streets of (presumably) old New York, crying “STRAW-ber-RIES! BLUE-ber-RIES! CHER-er-er,er-er-er-RIES!” ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/43 "2021-10-25T17:47:45Z")
I didn’t try salmon until I was around 40. Now I love it. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/44 "2021-10-25T17:54:41Z")
Not tinned, I imagine. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/45 "2021-10-25T17:57:15Z")
No, fresh. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/46 "2021-10-25T18:05:01Z")
Pacific? ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/47 "2021-10-25T18:13:15Z")
Living in the SF Bay Area for my teens, 20s, and early 30s I was exposed to a wide variety of ethnic foods and love all of them. However, even tho I have been enjoying Vietnamese pho noodle soup for years, I always avoided the Banh Mi sandwich, another Vietnamese staple, simply because I would not trade a bowl of that awesome broth for just a sandwich. About three years ago the guy sitting next to me at work was taking orders for Banh Mi for lunch for the group, so I figured WTH, no soup competition this way, I will try it. Boy was I missing out - it was awesome! The first thing that came to mind was “Banh Mi? F\*ck me! Why did I wait so long to try this!?!?”. Now whenever going for pho I will split a sandwich with my lunch mate as well. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Anconia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@D\_Anconia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Anconia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/48 "2021-10-25T18:15:54Z")
That, I’m not sure about. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/49 "2021-10-25T18:37:04Z")
Almost 61, and never had a Pop Tart. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/50 "2021-10-25T18:59:38Z")
A-ha! Control group for our generation. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/51 "2021-10-25T20:53:26Z")
I’ll pretty much always try new food\*. Goose, goat, baba ganoush, ackee, whatever, bring it on. And I’ll make a habit of periodically re-trying food I know I don’t like - Hell, your tastes change, give it a second (third…) chance. Used to hate mushrooms, now I adore them. Still working on mussels. Mind you, I do draw the line at oysters. j \* - given the limitation that I can’t eat red meat these days ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/52 "2021-10-25T21:43:51Z")
> [@Treppenwitz](#): > > Mind you, I do draw the line at oysters. Marine and prairie? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/53 "2021-10-25T22:18:55Z")
I have an aversion to banana flavored anything. Fresh bananas are OK - I eat maybe 2 a year - but you can have your banana breads, your banana puddings, your banana anything. So just yesterday I succumbed to peer pressure and had a sip of this vile liquid called banana-flavored almond milk. I was turned off immensely by its appearance alone, and then its taste prompted my stomach shouted “WTF???” to my brain. mmm ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/54 "2021-10-26T00:43:06Z")
I have never eaten: Spam Twinkies Pop-Tarts Any kind of canned pasta I recently tried Nutella for the first time, thinking it’d be like peanut butter. I wasn’t prepared for all that disgusting sweetness. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/55 "2021-10-26T01:11:46Z")
I like to try new foods. But i have a lot of foods i don’t care for, including anything with hot or sweet pepper. (Raw green pepper is okay, if it’s fresh. But once you cook it it makes everything nasty.) So…hmmm. I’ve never had a big Mac, either. But that’s because i swore off McDonald’s burgers as a child. And i don’t generally like a lot of sauces and crap on a burger, so i can’t imagine I’d like it. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/56 "2021-10-26T01:22:14Z")
So, what did you order in place of the menudo? I’ve seen canned menudo in the Hispanic section of my local grocery. I’m not adventurous enough to try it. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/57 "2021-10-26T01:23:05Z")
I prefer generic or store-brand Pop Tarts to the “real thing.” ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/58 "2021-10-26T01:27:24Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve had that. It was good, too - better than brand name Spaghettios, which I might have once a year. When I was a kid, we always asked for Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat, and when I moved out on my own, it was one of the first things I decided to cook for myself, and found out why my mother never made it. Other people may like it, but I sure didn’t. All those spice packets to this day still taste pretty much the same. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/59 "2021-10-26T01:42:59Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > So, what did you order in place of the menudo? Probably just a burrito platter with beans and rice. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@salinqmind1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trying-new-food/953030/60 "2021-10-26T05:38:48Z")
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