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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basically, when my older brother went off to college. He came home and was like "It looks like our local chinese place also has sushi- let's get some!" and my father was like "I had sushi once in the 80's in NYC with a Japanese client" and my mother was like "Raw fish will KILL us!" and I was like "Um, I hate tuna fish." Then at an aunt's house she was ordering in Chinese food from a different place than us and I didn't know what to eat and she said "Have lo mein; it's like spaghetti" so I did. I had dim sum for the first time in my late 20's and a bento box in my early 30's. Have tried (possibly americanized) Mexican food a few times in different variations over the decades and never liked it. Had a crepe for the first time in my mid 20's when I had a roommate from France who made them.

No shit, one time I was looking at the spices at Trader Joe's and another girl around my age walked up and confidently plucked a few spice jars from the shelf, I looked at her and thought "She seems cool; I'd be friends with her" and I bought three of the same spices she'd taken, and figured out how to cook with them. I'm 46 and my palate is still overall bland, but still expanding. My rosacea flares if I eat spicy food so I don't push that, but I would like to eat more flavorful food than I grew up with.  [/quote]

I have to ask - what were the three spices??[/quote]

Basil, thyme, oregano.  :)  [/quote]

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