Answer for question 4581.
Dec. 29th, 2015 02:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabby[Error: unknown template qotd]The funniest one is eggplant.
So when I was a kid, I had this teacher who would bring in unusual (for our whitebread town, anyway) foods and not tell us what it was until we'd all eaten some. Nowadays you couldn't do that, of course, but it was kind of a cool mind-broadening exercise. That's why I've eaten escargot, and the only reason I've eaten escargot.
Anyway, one time she brought in octopus, and I was just horrified by the texture. For whatever reason, I developed this notion that cooked eggplant would have the same texture as octopus, and I refused to eat it as a result. This continued well after I became vegetarian, even though eggplant is pretty much a lifesaving ingredient if you're vegetarian.
Eventually, I guess I was hungry and it was the only option, and to my surprise and delight, it tasted nothing like octopus and had a very different texture, and it's now my favourite vegetable.
For the inverse, see my post about attempting to cook sweet and sour meatballs using my family's old recipe.
So when I was a kid, I had this teacher who would bring in unusual (for our whitebread town, anyway) foods and not tell us what it was until we'd all eaten some. Nowadays you couldn't do that, of course, but it was kind of a cool mind-broadening exercise. That's why I've eaten escargot, and the only reason I've eaten escargot.
Anyway, one time she brought in octopus, and I was just horrified by the texture. For whatever reason, I developed this notion that cooked eggplant would have the same texture as octopus, and I refused to eat it as a result. This continued well after I became vegetarian, even though eggplant is pretty much a lifesaving ingredient if you're vegetarian.
Eventually, I guess I was hungry and it was the only option, and to my surprise and delight, it tasted nothing like octopus and had a very different texture, and it's now my favourite vegetable.
For the inverse, see my post about attempting to cook sweet and sour meatballs using my family's old recipe.
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Date: 2015-12-29 11:25 pm (UTC)Also glad to know I'm not insane.