Question #13

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This is in answer to the frozendoll meme I started earlier.

#13) Foods you love and foods you hate
This is a tough one.  I like a lot of food.
And, that has always showed.  Except for highschool when I was swimming
several miles a day, I’ve always been overweight.
A few years ago when my doctor told me “lose weight or go on high blood
pressure pills” I went on a fairly restrictive diet.  I lost 70 pounds
before my next physical.  She said “not good enough, you go on the pills
anyhow”.  So, I went back to eating what I liked and the weight came back.
(I have pointed out to her, several times, that my BP is a good 20 points
higher than normal when she is the one taking it, or I know she is about to
see me.  This has been proven with other visits to her office when I didn’t
see her.  But, I digress.)

My mother was, and probably still is, a very bad cook.  My father had no
sense of smell.  As that is a very large component of taste, he was very
easy to please in the food department.  And, my mother cooked to his taste,
or lack thereof.

So, when I hit my 20’s and discovered good cooking it made a big impression
on me.

I do have a fair number of allergies, including several food based ones.
Milk, raw onions, eggplant and certain types of preservatives.

But, generally, I love most food.  I hate food that makes me sick.
I generally prefer fruits, meats & grains over vegetables.  But, there are
plenty of vegetables I think are OK.