What do 8 year olds think of food?
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I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!
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I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!
PecuniousPete wrote:
To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food,
Your about to get flamed.
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I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!
Ignoring your smugness and usual dig at the British, I think that eating is my favourite thing to do. There are so many wonderful flavours and flavour combinations, and consuming them is just an intensely pleasurable experience. And I don't like sweet food, for any course (with an honourable exception for cheesecake).
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PecuniousPete wrote:
To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food,
Your about to get flamed.
The Reincarnation wrote:
Your about to get flamed.
You mean flambeed. Avec cognac, un peu de juis d'orange... :)
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Ignoring your smugness and usual dig at the British, I think that eating is my favourite thing to do. There are so many wonderful flavours and flavour combinations, and consuming them is just an intensely pleasurable experience. And I don't like sweet food, for any course (with an honourable exception for cheesecake).
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ChrisElston wrote:
Ignoring your smugness and usual dig at the British,
I am British. I love British food. Fish and chips, black pudding, curries... :) What I am getting at is my daughters culinary upbringing and how her taste buds really appreciate subtlety.
ChrisElston wrote:
consuming them is just an intensely pleasurable experience
True. That is why I cook great food every night. I just can not abode to eat food that does not excite the senses. And my daughter has been bought up that way. :)
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ChrisElston wrote:
Ignoring your smugness and usual dig at the British,
I am British. I love British food. Fish and chips, black pudding, curries... :) What I am getting at is my daughters culinary upbringing and how her taste buds really appreciate subtlety.
ChrisElston wrote:
consuming them is just an intensely pleasurable experience
True. That is why I cook great food every night. I just can not abode to eat food that does not excite the senses. And my daughter has been bought up that way. :)
PecuniousPete wrote:
What I am getting at is my daughters culinary upbringing and how her taste buds really appreciate subtlety.
Yeah, that was the smugness bit :)
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PecuniousPete wrote:
What I am getting at is my daughters culinary upbringing and how her taste buds really appreciate subtlety.
Yeah, that was the smugness bit :)
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If you choose to confuse smugness with fact then I can not help you. :)
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I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!
Specifically the States, a certain 10 year-old, who I will leave nameless bought a King Sized Twix candy bar. (For those that don't know it contains four large pieces). He dropped the first piece on the ground in a wet parking lot and then picked it up and said, "Five Second Rule". I stopped him and asked, "Are you really going to do that?", He said, "Why not" and plopped it in his mouth. I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
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Specifically the States, a certain 10 year-old, who I will leave nameless bought a King Sized Twix candy bar. (For those that don't know it contains four large pieces). He dropped the first piece on the ground in a wet parking lot and then picked it up and said, "Five Second Rule". I stopped him and asked, "Are you really going to do that?", He said, "Why not" and plopped it in his mouth. I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
King Sized Twix
My daughter would puke at the thought of it.
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
"Five Second Rule".
Now she would be puking twice. :)
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Specifically the States, a certain 10 year-old, who I will leave nameless bought a King Sized Twix candy bar. (For those that don't know it contains four large pieces). He dropped the first piece on the ground in a wet parking lot and then picked it up and said, "Five Second Rule". I stopped him and asked, "Are you really going to do that?", He said, "Why not" and plopped it in his mouth. I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
You could interpret it that way, or you could say that he didn't want to waste a delicious candy bar just because a little water got on it... :laugh:
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The Reincarnation wrote:
Your about to get flamed.
You mean flambeed. Avec cognac, un peu de juis d'orange... :)
PecuniousPete wrote:
You mean flambee
:thumbsup:
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Specifically the States, a certain 10 year-old, who I will leave nameless bought a King Sized Twix candy bar. (For those that don't know it contains four large pieces). He dropped the first piece on the ground in a wet parking lot and then picked it up and said, "Five Second Rule". I stopped him and asked, "Are you really going to do that?", He said, "Why not" and plopped it in his mouth. I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
No, we just like the salty somewhat-gritty flavor that only the ground can season an otherwise bland piece of manufactured candy. The reference to the "5 second rule" is just an indication of sophistication on the 10-year old's part of knowing exactly how long it takes to produce this fine meal. You should be smug as well.
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Specifically the States, a certain 10 year-old, who I will leave nameless bought a King Sized Twix candy bar. (For those that don't know it contains four large pieces). He dropped the first piece on the ground in a wet parking lot and then picked it up and said, "Five Second Rule". I stopped him and asked, "Are you really going to do that?", He said, "Why not" and plopped it in his mouth. I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
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Specifically the States, a certain 10 year-old, who I will leave nameless bought a King Sized Twix candy bar. (For those that don't know it contains four large pieces). He dropped the first piece on the ground in a wet parking lot and then picked it up and said, "Five Second Rule". I stopped him and asked, "Are you really going to do that?", He said, "Why not" and plopped it in his mouth. I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
Need custom software developed? I do custom programming based primarily on MS tools with an emphasis on C# development and consulting. "And they, since they Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" -- Robert Frost "All users always want Excel" --Ennis Lynch
Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
You know as well as I do, America has food snobs too. ;) Makes me think of a “high toned” person I used to know who would at every opportunity would spout off about how sophisticated his tastes were. He had invited my brother and me to a grooms dinner for his daughters wedding and he was going on about the wine we were served about how it was dry and this that and whatever else they say about wine and declared it a good wine. Several people around him were nodding their heads in agreement. I didn’t particularly like it myself. I had a good laugh when I went to the bathroom later and happened to see the server through the kitchen door refilling the bottle with wine from a cardboard box. Made me wonder how many other sophisticated connoisseurs of finer spirits approved of the wine
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:
I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
You know as well as I do, America has food snobs too. ;) Makes me think of a “high toned” person I used to know who would at every opportunity would spout off about how sophisticated his tastes were. He had invited my brother and me to a grooms dinner for his daughters wedding and he was going on about the wine we were served about how it was dry and this that and whatever else they say about wine and declared it a good wine. Several people around him were nodding their heads in agreement. I didn’t particularly like it myself. I had a good laugh when I went to the bathroom later and happened to see the server through the kitchen door refilling the bottle with wine from a cardboard box. Made me wonder how many other sophisticated connoisseurs of finer spirits approved of the wine
It was broke, so I fixed it.
I don't drink, but every once in a while I have tasted wine out of curiosity (like, what's the big deal why does every one drink it?) and it is nasty. Probably due to the fact that the only sips I took were from under $20 bottles. Recently I had an opportunity to taste some ice wine, that stuff is good. So, yeah, there is a difference but I think most just drink it to be different from beer swilling dolts. Nascar is to beer as ? is to wine. (I think you will find it doesn't matter :) )
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I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!
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I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!
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I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!
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Budweiser = X| I only drink imported beers ;P
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
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Budweiser = X| I only drink imported beers ;P
"Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus
So questionable food is okay, but beer has standards? :laugh: I actually have not had a beer for 30 plus years, so I do not know what is out there. Just thought Bud was a good redneck beer. Guess I should have said Duff's.
