I mean, I’m vegan, I don’t want her to eat fish tacos. But she was telling me the other day that her friend ordered some and she thought for a moment about trying it, but in the end she was afraid they would be too spicy. I told her they’re not, but she has it in her head that fish tacos are some strange foreign food that will fuck up her taste buds or something. A grown ass adult afraid to try fish tacos.
Then you have my dad. He is surprisingly cool with me being vegan, doesn’t really care. He’s never criticized or made fun. But he will never eat any vegan meal I prepare. Why? Because he won’t eat any entree that doesn’t have meat in it. He just refuses. Like an adult baby. My mom has asked him to just try eating a salad but he won’t. Absolutely zero interest in trying anything new that he thinks he won’t like.
Old white people are weird.
When i was a little kid i thought Chili's queso dip was the best thing i'd ever tasted.
My parents never used ANY spices, and i know now that they just put a little cumin in the dip. But as a kid i kept trying to figure out what animal they could have ground up and put in there to make it taste like that.
Anyways, cumin was the first spice i learned about.
I had a similar conversation with a friend of mine. She's a mid 50s white woman who's living a seasoning free lifestyle, but she's obsessed with all the different kinds of salt. Sea salt, pink salt, black salt, ancient salt, you name it. We're eating Cuban black beans and rice and she looks at me and says "I wonder what kind of salt they use to make it taste like that?"
As a kid I went nuts for anything with vinegar in it, for similar reasons lol