The Cherry Debate

I looked at the ingredients list on a Pringles container once, and it was freaky enough that I’ve never considered buying them. I mean, if a packet of chips contains much more than “potatoes, oil, salt” then there’s probably a better alternative.

Fresh cherries and bananas… both delicious.

My partner likes bananas and apples and actively dislikes virtually every other kind of fruit. It makes me a bit sad, but it does mean that when I buy fruit I definitely get to eat it, so it’s not the worst thing either.

Coriander… I used to thoroughly dislike it, but I’ve since learned that on certain things it’s amazing.

For about 20 years I refused to eat mushrooms because as a kid I’d absolutely hated the smell of them cooking when my dad would fry them up in a pan (which was regularly), and my brain had just accepted that “mushrooms are The Worst”. I no longer recall whether I’d actually tried tasting them, but I couldn’t even be in the same room as that smell, so it’s possible that I simply refused to try. Some friends finally convinced me to try some when I was visiting them years later, and they were delicious! I’ve loved mushrooms ever since, and think it’s tragic that I went without them for so long. The particular type of button mushroom that my dad always cooked still doesn’t smell great to me while cooking, but I no longer mind that smell, as I know they taste delicious.

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