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**Alison** · 18-12-2008, 01:19 PM

Well that's what you get if you invite Kerry Katona round for lunch..

**jackie j** · 18-12-2008, 01:19 PM

Some people will never be happy with home made cos they dont know about how good home made tastes. My sister is the cook in our family and I always feel like I have messed up so dont ask her very often. Me and flowers made some sweets and chocolate brownies on tuesday, recipes taken from this months cook vegetarian magagzine which I am dissapointed with as one thing we did make didnt give a full list of ingrediants and its only cos I used to make it that leaving out coconut would mean it wasnt cocnut ice lol and I didnt know how much to put in so guessed wrong so had to bin it. The other thing was a trifle that only told you how to make the custard and nothing else so if you bought all the ingrediants to make it you would be left wondering what to do with them, if you didnt have a clue to start with. I have e-mailed the editor but so far no reply.

**bobleponge** · 18-12-2008, 01:30 PM

You just have to accept that we are all different, some people are used to different tastes than others.
I think it was either Jamie O or HFW who carried out an blind taste experiment with cheap and free range chickens. From memory the free range won but only just. The chef's damning appraisal was that our taste buds are so tainted by mass produced rubbish that we have grown so used to it that we think we like it.
There are however those amongst us (all of us here I guess) who do appreciate the flavour that home grown produce, both meat and veggies, have and so can enjoy them.
Perhaps dont invite her again for a meal, or maybe just add small items and try and sneak them past her taste buds, and smile smugly inside if you manage it.

**janeyo** · 18-12-2008, 01:42 PM

lol at alison.

(I fear she wouldn't make it past our doorstep, it must be the smug grin)

janeyo

**Nicos** · 18-12-2008, 01:45 PM

There are flavour enhancers and loads of salt in shop bought nosh ( well..not ALL) but as Bob says- we all have different tastebuds/tastes.

I've been asked why I'm bothering with chooks with the cost of feed etc, worry about dogs and foxes etc when bought eggs taste just the same and are much cheaper and no hassle

**SlugLobber** · 18-12-2008, 01:46 PM

I once had a dinner guest who got blacklisted, big time. I thought I was being safe, cooking lasagne, but she 'forgot' to tell me that she doesn't eat cheese, doesn't eat pasta, doesn't eat salad (or veg). She ended up with beans on toast. She wouldn't eat the focaccia bread as it had tomatoes in it, wouldn't eat the tiramisu as she doesn't do coffee. She lives on what I would describe as frozen s**t.

I would have been quite happy to cater in advance, but she was simply unworkable and the fact she hadn't bothered to tell me (I'd SAID I was doing lasagne!) I found discourteous. Really nice person other than that, though (or she wouldn't have been invited!!).

**janeyo** · 18-12-2008, 01:46 PM

I think it annoyed me more that she wouldn't try stuff, just said she didn't like it.

janeyo

**janeyo** · 18-12-2008, 01:49 PM

her husband does all the cooking in their because as she says, when she has to do it she can't be bothered and gets frozen equivalents as life is too short to cook food

He did try and like (or said he did) everything I made!

janeyo

**T-lady** · 18-12-2008, 01:50 PM

Some folk just don't have any taste. If you ever ask her back just make sure you add loads of salt to her portions and inject her meat with MSG otherwise she'll always think its taste is wrong!

Did you see Rick Stein on the welly last night? They did a blind taste test on Xmas puds and he preferred the Aldi version to the Waitrose / M&S versions - he was mortified but I guess it all is down to individual taste (although he influenced the rest of his table to agree with his choice)

**OverWyreGrower** · 18-12-2008, 01:51 PM

We do have a few people we know like that, who don't 'trust' anything home-made, as there are no regulations etc about what has been where, cleanliness etc.
They wouldn't ever buy/eat anything that wasn't from a supermarket (no farmer's markets, small producers etc)

The first time we made the mistake of telling them things were homemade/homegrown, and hardly anything was eaten.

The second time we just didn't mention it; and there were lots of comments about how nice the food was. We never said anything.
I was just secretly smug about how good my homemade/grown food obviously tasted!!

bobleponge is right, apparantly people's tastebuds have grown accustomed to mass-produced, additive-stuffed junk; so have no idea how food should actually taste. Think about eating a fresh, juicy strawberry and then eating something 'strawberry-flavoured' - the two are nothing alike. If you've spent all your life eating 'flavoured' food, how will you know what a real strawberry tastes like?

As an aside, I have baked my little socks off for presents for people, and I always have requests for more, or the recipe!

**OverWyreGrower** · 18-12-2008, 01:54 PM

Originally posted by SlugLobber View Post

I once had a dinner guest who got blacklisted, big time. I thought I was being safe, cooking lasagne, but she 'forgot' to tell me that she doesn't eat cheese, doesn't eat pasta, doesn't eat salad (or veg). She ended up with beans on toast. She wouldn't eat the focaccia bread as it had tomatoes in it, wouldn't eat the tiramisu as she doesn't do coffee. She lives on what I would describe as frozen s**t.

When I first met Mr OWG, he didn't eat cheese, eggs, chicken, pasta etc. He said that he didn't like it, but in reality, he had never eaten cheese, so had no idea what it tasted like!! His mum didn't eat (didn't like?) the stuff mentioned above, so he never ate it either!

He now eats all of the above with great gusto!

**Alison** · 18-12-2008, 01:55 PM

I once got asked by a fully grown adult (who had just realised that the sausage roll she was eating was home made) whether it had taken me a long time to skin the sausages to get the sausage meat out. It's a worry. On a plus point, she ate everything put in front of her.

**janeyo** · 18-12-2008, 01:57 PM

lol at alison again!

janeyo

**OverWyreGrower** · 18-12-2008, 01:58 PM

Originally posted by Alison View Post

I once got asked by a fully grown adult (who had just realised that the sausage roll she was eating was home made) whether it had taken me a long time to skin the sausages to get the sausage meat out.

Did you tell her they were freshly laid by your pig?

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