Lady Lunchalot

A few years ago I was on a training course and was eating at a hotel seafood buffet with a bunch of strangers. There was a pile of oysters at the buffet, and I love oysters, so I came back to our table with a plate. One of the women was quite grossed out that I could eat them, and after chatting with her about it for a while she revealed that she’d never actually tasted an oyster before. She just knew she wouldn’t like them.

This I cannot understand. You HAVE to try foods to know what they taste like, otherwise how will you ever know? When I was a kid I hated smoked salmon, avocados, broccoli, zucchini and mangoes. I love all these things now, and would have missed out if I didn’t keep on trying them.

Anyway, I somehow talked this woman into trying an oyster, and as it turned out, she didn’t mind them so much.

At least, that’s what she told me. She might have just been trying to get me off her back.

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