• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    Tamales.

    First time I had one, I was like 6 or 7 and nobody told me you’re supposed to remove the corn husk.

    Turns out they’re pretty good if you’re not eating the corn husk wrapper. 🤦‍♂️

    Same with Babel cheese and the wax.

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    Bacon. My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser. I hated it, but my mom would insist on putting some small cubes on the beans to “give a taste” (it didn’t). Took me some time to finally experiment one that was fried to a crispy dryness. Infinitely better.

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      My first taste was of boiled bacon. It was like chewing on a fucking pencil eraser.

      🤮🤢 That sounds terrible. I would have been thrown off by that too. I like the crispy kind myself. I found a soggy piece of bacon when I was eating some green beans as a kid. I stopped eating it for a few years after that.

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    Asparagus. It turns out that canned asparagus is gross but steamed is great.

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    Gardening.

    Previously my only gardening experience was my mom yelling at me to weed outside in the hot summer sun.

    Now that I live alone, I started getting potted plants, and there is something wonderful about sharing my space with green growing things. I have a few that have really taken to the environment and amount of sunlight, watching them grow is wonderful. Marveling when one of my little planty bois randomly flowers, and there’s something so stress-relieving about digging your hands into soil when it’s time to re-pot.

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      Yeah, I’m getting back into gardening despite the whole being yelled at to help garden as a kid! Also if the plants die, when I cry over them, I won’t be told I’m being melodramatic!

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    I’m not going to say I “love” them now, but I appreciate onions’ use in cooking and flavour profiles now. Whereas when I was younger, anything I ate had to have no onion in it whatsoever.

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    Farming. I worked on the neighboring farm as a teenager. Then, after a long series of jobs and education, became a software engineer. Being a software engineer taught me something: I miss working on a farm.

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        Yeah, there’s the joke that jr engineers want to be sr engineers and sr engineers want to be farmers (or woodworkers or whatnot). I like both, but I definitely need the balance of doing something physical and working with my hands.

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      Also the “cheddar” that is normally found in USA is really just another heavily processed American-style cheese with a different color. It’s very different than an English cheddar or a vintage cheddar.

      • Good cheese accessability is better today for sure, although I’m certain lots of folks in the US even back then were getting good cheese. Just not my family. We were lower middle-income, and my folks didn’t know any better. And may not have cared; neither has shown a passion for cheese even in the modern market.

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    as a kid I really hated mushrooms bc of the texture. now I love them so long as they aren’t on their own (on a burger or smth like that).

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      I have the opposite feeling regarding ghost, 10 years ago they were a cool growing underground bands with a fun make up and lore, and by the end of the 2010’s you would hear them at the radio, and a lot of drama between Papa and the Ghouls (Magna carta cartel is the former Ghouls band, and the legit successor of Ghost)

      Let alone that I can’t afford ticket anymore.

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      The description of Ghost I’ve read online: “Ghost is modern day Kiss of rock/metal music” and I think it’s true. It’s more money generator than band.