There is something wrong with the "small" margarita
(the menu listed "small" and "large") ringing up
on the bill as "kid's margarita". (Mad Mex,
Sunday night.)
flavored coffee smells yummy but tastes gross. I don't think there's enough sugar and cream in the world to make coffee taste palatable. (on the other hand, I don't like chocolate either (which I recently discovered I share with not only my father but some of his siblings as well.... genetic taste bud bias?) unless it's milk chocolate with _lots_ of peanuts/peanut butter in it. (and white chocolate is just a totally other animal entirely) I think I just don't like 'bitter' taste. (Rachel and Mom, however, adore chocolate like supposedly all real females do. What can I say, someone forgot to pass my genes the memo)
Tea is yummy, though. (although I've been accused of drinking 'not tea, but slightly colored sugar-water')
My parents used to give us as children cocoa which I couldn't stomach anymore after a mishap with some 'oops, I guess that milk turned already, didn't it?' and that same incident kept me even from wanting milk in my tea after that... but I discovered a few years ago that chai with milk in it is really yummy
And I have so far discovered only one alcoholic thing that neither smells nor tastes to my system like alcohol (which, appearantly, my tastebuds violently disapprove of) and that's smirnoff's green apple malted beverage. (which in some circles probably doesn't 'really count')
>> white chocolate is just a totally other animal entirely
Yep, I agree with you. Why is it called "chocolate" anyway? The taste is entirely different, IMO.
>> only one alcoholic thing that neither smells nor tastes to my system like alcohol
May I suggest Bartenura's Moscati di Asti? It's a very low-alcohol wine (4%, I think) and I jokingly call it "apple juice" because, well, it tastes more like juice than wine.
>> white chocolate is just a totally other animal entirely Yep, I agree with you. Why is it called "chocolate" anyway? The taste is entirely different, IMO.
True, but it's produced from cacao, so it's sort of truth in advertising. (It's just that white chocolate is made from the boring bits of the cacao without the interesting stuff...)
As I recall, there are several different parts (or derivatives?) from the cacao plant that go into chocolate. Dark chocolate has more of the "makes stuff bitter" part, white lacks the "makes stuff brown" part but has everything else, milk, well, adds milk, and so on. (There are different types within species, too -- dark chocolate candy has different proportions from dark baking chocolate.)
I don't like bitterness, so I like white and milk chocolates and don't care for dark chocolate when it's "naked". When it's wrapped around an interesting filling (creams, cherries, nuts, etc), I'll eat it -- the filling offsets the dark chocolate.
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bleah
Date: 2004-09-21 08:49 am (UTC)Tea is yummy, though. (although I've been accused of drinking 'not tea, but slightly colored sugar-water')
My parents used to give us as children cocoa which I couldn't stomach anymore after a mishap with some 'oops, I guess that milk turned already, didn't it?' and that same incident kept me even from wanting milk in my tea after that... but I discovered a few years ago that chai with milk in it is really yummy
And I have so far discovered only one alcoholic thing that neither smells nor tastes to my system like alcohol (which, appearantly, my tastebuds violently disapprove of) and that's smirnoff's green apple malted beverage. (which in some circles probably doesn't 'really count')
Re: bleah
Date: 2004-09-21 10:05 am (UTC)Yep, I agree with you. Why is it called "chocolate" anyway? The taste is entirely different, IMO.
>> only one alcoholic thing that neither smells nor tastes to my system like alcohol
May I suggest Bartenura's Moscati di Asti? It's a very low-alcohol wine (4%, I think) and I jokingly call it "apple juice" because, well, it tastes more like juice than wine.
Re: bleah
Date: 2004-09-21 10:40 am (UTC)Yep, I agree with you. Why is it called "chocolate" anyway? The taste is entirely different, IMO.
True, but it's produced from cacao, so it's sort of truth in advertising. (It's just that white chocolate is made from the boring bits of the cacao without the interesting stuff...)
Re: bleah
Date: 2004-09-21 11:44 am (UTC)I don't like bitterness, so I like white and milk chocolates and don't care for dark chocolate when it's "naked". When it's wrapped around an interesting filling (creams, cherries, nuts, etc), I'll eat it -- the filling offsets the dark chocolate.