# What do you like that you wouldn't have thought you would like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 11, 2021, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190 "2021-11-11T16:03:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/101 "2021-11-14T19:27:24Z")
I spent my whole childhood picking pieces of avocado out of my mom’s otherwise amazing taco salad and, because my parent’s were in the clean plate club, I would swallow them like pills. Around the time I got into sushi, just california rolls at first, I realized that avocados are actually creamy, fresh & wonderful food. Very recently (2 nights ago) I tried escargot again for the first time in 25 years or so. First time I remember thinking that the only thing that made them edible was the massive amount of butter & garlic they were cooked in but this time, prepared totally different, they were a nice surprise. I’m still not sure I’d go out of my way for them but they were very tasty, like protein-rich mushrooms in green curry. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2021, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/102 "2021-11-14T20:22:22Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > he one time I remember thinking film would be so much easier: [star trails]. > ([Star trail - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_trail)). With digital I guess it is or was common for sensors to overheat so the process involved an intervalometer and multiple exposures, but they didn’t turn out that great. Turns out, it’s WAY better on digital, with bit of software… [![Imgur](https://live.staticflickr.com/4277/34394181333_a71f68f6cc_b.jpg "Monument Valley Moonlight Landscape") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/11822576@N08/34394181333/in/dateposted-public/) ---
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/103 "2021-11-15T12:03:49Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > Turns out, it’s WAY better on digital, with bit of software… I didn’t have the software skills (still don’t). I probably also picked the wrong night for it, as the weather was changing. Like I said, I’d read that sensors can overheat from repeated long exposures so I didn’t push it. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/104 "2021-11-15T13:08:56Z")
Los Angeles. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/105 "2021-11-15T13:33:09Z")
I think this is the most popular thread I’ve created (hooray). I love the responses so far. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![motu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/motu/32/259_2.png) [@motu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/motu)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/106 "2021-11-15T15:59:45Z")
Shower Stool. Inherited one from my mother. Though it was so “old lady-ish”. A shower stool is just a wonderful simple luxury. A shower stool and a fancy shower head and you got your own spa in the privacy of your own bathroom. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/107 "2021-11-16T08:49:14Z")
Didn’t see this (@ people next time!) but for Black\*Pink, I’d say [Kill This Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S24-y0Ij3Y) or [Lovesick Girls](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyRsYk0LyA8). Then there’s their solo stuff. I like Jennie’s [Solo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73BI9eUkjM) and Rosé’s [On The Ground](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKZvWhCqx1s) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2021, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/108 "2021-11-16T15:28:37Z")
The Goofy Movie was really good, despite the fact that I always found Goofy a bit annoying. ---
**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:** [November 16, 2021, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/109 "2021-11-16T17:06:35Z")
_ **The Big Bang Theory** _. I never watched it at first because I thought it was just another lame sitcom that wouldn’t be funny at all without a laugh track. I guess I finally started after the first few years because I found out my ex-wife watched it and we might have something new to talk about. I started watching reruns at suppertime and thought it was hilarious until it started being about “relationships” instead of sex and nerdy/sciencey-stuff. I gradually quit watching around the sixth season. I felt basically the same about _ **Seinfeld** _ and _ **Two and a Half Men** _, but my ex had nothing to do with those. I started watching the former because I was curious about all the catch phrases it spawned, and the latter for all its raunchy one-liners. I wasn’t interested in _ **Monk** _ at first either. I completely misunderstood the whole OCD component and thought the character was just addled. (Turned out he was, but in the same way Thomas Edison was “addled.”) ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/110 "2021-11-17T17:22:30Z")
> [@motu](#): > > Gin. I remember being 9-10 years old, coming into the air-conditioned house on a hot summer day, dramatically wiping my forehead due to the heat and taking a deep breath, just enjoying the coolth. But wait, there is a glass of ice water on the kitchen table, so I grab it and chug. Blergh!!! It was my Dad’s Gin and maybe Tonic, not sure. I was sure that was the nastiest liquid to ever enter my mouth. Even after I started drinking, and after doing it legally, I avoided Gin for about two decades. I ended up drinking G&T’s at a work party and hey, these aren’t so bad. Gin is now my preferred liquor. Interesting. When I was 18, shortly after I graduated high school I stayed with my father for a summer visit. He made a Martini for himself, and made one for me and basically said, “you’re a man now, and you’re having this, or at least trying this”. It was a gin martini made his way: so dry you’d sneeze from the dust, with olives and a piece of lemon peel. It was disgusting…tasted kind of dish-soapy to me. I nursed it though, because I wanted to get an alcohol buzz. Now it’s my favorite mixed drink, though I probably drink them at a rate of 3 of them every 2 years. In the right setting, I find it sublimely relaxing. Of course, you gotta’ be careful with managing your temptations with those things, as Martinis are definitely in the “one seems not quite enough, but two is too many” category. I’m no “lightweight”, but I can’t for the life of me see how somebody can have a “3 martini lunch” and return to one’s job. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/111 "2021-11-17T17:56:29Z")
Yeah- I was the same way, except it was the horrible hot fart stench of the cabbage rolls with sauerkraut that my parents used to make periodically that caused me to be entirely unwilling to try it when I was young. What finally did it was a good friend in college saying he’d love a bratwurst, but that nowhere sold them in College Station. I said “I’ve never had one.” So he went to the store and bought brats, sauerkraut and buns, and cooked us up a bunch of them. I didn’t want to look like a wimp so I tried it, sauerkraut and all. Turns out I LIKE sauerkraut. Sushi was much the same way- raw fish? Blech. Right up until some girls I knew after college invited me to go with them. Not wanting to look un-manly, I went and tried it. And loved it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/112 "2021-11-17T20:29:36Z")
> [@BrickBat](#): > > Martinis are definitely in the “one seems not quite enough, but two is too many” category. When in New Orleans, I always stop at Pat O’Brien’s (where the Hurricane was invented) and have two Hurricanes. Two is too many, but that’s the way I roll. Once we met a woman who was on her _third_ hurricane. I was impressed. After she finished, she tried to stand up but couldn’t do it without help. We walked her out of the bar and a few blocks _to her car_. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/113 "2021-11-17T20:33:01Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > When in New Orleans, I always stop at Pat O’Brien’s (where the Hurricane was invented) and have two Hurricanes. Two is too many, but that’s the way I roll. There’s a reason you’re my only SDMB “friend.” ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/114 "2021-11-17T20:34:12Z")
🍻 Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![tullsterx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@tullsterx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tullsterx)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/115 "2021-11-18T14:24:09Z")
Thanks for starting it. There’s so much negativity out there, this is very refreshing. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/116 "2021-11-19T12:17:25Z")
The new Netflix series _Arcane_. I on’t knwo or care about League of Legends, but the animation and story on this is just _so good_! if you can check it out, at least watch the trailer. Also Dagliesh on Acorn. A poet who is also a detective? But it actually works and the lead is quite interesting and watchable (despite being named Bertie IRL, poor fellow). ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/117 "2021-11-19T20:20:17Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Once we met a woman who was on her _third_ hurricane. I was impressed. After she finished, she tried to stand up but couldn’t do it without help. We walked her out of the bar and a few blocks _to her car_ . That’s pretty damn irresponsible. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/118 "2021-11-19T22:21:55Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > That’s pretty damn irresponsible Oh whose part? We were staying in a hotel, and assumed she was as well. We helped hold her up and she directed us where to go. When we arrived at her car, she unlocked it, got in, and passed out. We continued from there on foot to our next stop. What would you have done differently? ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2021, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/119 "2021-11-19T22:24:28Z")
Had the bartender take her keys. Basically, you enabled a drunk driver. If she had attempted to drive, would you have let her? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190/120 "2021-11-20T01:00:16Z")
She was also set up for a potential drunk driving arrest by your actions. Cop comes by, checks on her, finds she is in her vehicle drunk with her keys. That spells DUI arrest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-like-that-you-wouldnt-have-thought-you-would-like/954190.md?page=7)