I am sensitive to bitter tastes, too, which is why I don’t like most beer.  Everything is so overhopped now that it tastes like a pine tree.

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Nah. I have been hearing that for my entire life. I even remember a fad of lollypops with bugs in them.  As long as conventional sources of protein exist, people are not going to choose bugs. Bugs are for starvation and novelty.

There are some strong contenders, but I want to add red velvet to the discussion. True, old fashioned red velvet caused by the chemical reaction between buttermilk and cocoa is good. The modern dump of neon red food coloring is bullshit. It doesn’t taste like anything. Also, without the abomination that is red velvet…

Those bring out the curmudgeon in me.  When I see a unicorn colored anything, I wonder why adults think food coloring makes things special and I assume it doesn’t taste good.  Also, unless something is unusual, I don’t need to see a photo of every darn meal you eat.

I now need to seek out a mug shaped like a camera lens.  Photography is my husband’s hobby, and he loves mugs.

At work, my mug is from grad school. I have had that thing for 20 years. (Yeah, I’m that old). For tea, my favorite mug was gotten when I took 2nd place in the first trail race I ever did (I still haven’t ever won a race).  This weekend I attended a festival and picked up a ceramic mug that I have been drinking coffee…

The face and the gilded cage aspect of the house.  It was isolated, with almost no furniture, and it gave the impression that this was her only connection to the outside world.

I see you met my mother in law.

I have recently become aware of how much women in America were treated like this as recently as the last century. They were allowed to wear color, but they were not allowed to eat in restaurants in many places (hence tea rooms were invented). In some cities they were so restricted that they couldn’t even do household…

You sound fun.

I don’t speak parseltongue.

Privileged=disadvantaged?  You must work for the trump administration.

I did not.  Cool!

Every time I go backpacking, I wish I had some lembas.

The pumpkin juice always sounded gross, but I have wondered how those kids didn’t all weigh 300 lbs with that fantastic food.  I tell myself that magic takes a lot of calories.

Not fictional, but when I read Game of Thrones, I had the inexplicable desire to eat all of my food out of trenchers.

My husband is a vegetarian, and I like getting some red meat when we go out to eat (cooking beef for one is inconvenient).  90% of the time, the server will give me his veggie dish and put the steak or burger in front of him.

Exactly. It is exhausting to always be considered second if at all.  Even granite gets worn away my drops of water after long enough.

My husband likes to smoke the turkey. For 4 years in a row he has failed to remove the giblets. Every year I ask, and every year he insists that he got them. I have tried reminding him that there are typically two packs, and he insists that this bird only has one.