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.
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.
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.
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.”)
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Cheers!