Ash's stunted taste buds get an overdue awakening...
Nerd By Northwest #343 - "A Foodie in the Making"
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Just about everybody knows a person like this... someone who always eats the same handful of foods every day and pretty much has to be force fed in order to get them to try anything new. We're talking picky or fussy eaters (which, to quote George Carlin, is a euphemism for "a big pain in the ass" 😁). Men and boys tend to be the worst offenders, but I've come across a few ladies who can be almost as bad. One of the weirdest compliments I got was from an old girlfriend who said one of the reasons she liked me was because I didn't eat the same thing all the time and liked trying different foods. Turned out her ex was exactly this type, and he lived almost exclusively on Hot Pockets. Apparently his freezer was FILLED with them. Fast forward twenty years to now, and I bet that dude's intestinal tract must be a trainwreck.
On a side note, I've always liked Greek food but I gained a new appreciation for it when visiting Greece back in 2008. I was loving it, but my wife was experiencing morning sickness almost our entire stay there, and the smells of most of the food there made her nauseous. Only one day did the nausea let up, on the morning we were flying onward to France. The only thing available at the airport was McDonald's, and she ended up scarfing down multiple Egg McMuffins. She said that was the best food she had that whole time in Greece. 😆
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I used to run Living Greyhawk games back in the day at a local game shop. They had a coffee shop inside it, but the only food they served was hot pockets. So I would usually have two a week there as part of my DM training regimen.
I think I remember my old DM's training regimen... I think I'd say it was 3 parts creativity, 4 parts acting skills, 5 parts player management (i.e. how to creatively reign in our destructive impulses), and 10 parts sitting on ass and eating junk food and drinking Mountain Dew (takes a lot of sugar & caffeine to fire up those creative neurons!). Not sure if that's the same as your regimen, but it seems to correlate well with other gaming groups I've seen... 😉
I had to look up what Hot Pockets were. Not sure we had them here, but I used to be a fussy eater and one of my kids was too. Most of us grow out of it.
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Yeah, they're basically microwaveable meat-sauce-cheese pastries. They have a bunch of different kinds, yet somehow most of them manage to taste close to the same as most of the others. I like to think of them as predecessors to the generic food pills or discs that TV shows like Buck Rogers or the Jetsons and such said we'd be eating in the future... satisfies hunger and provides a bit of taste to go along with it, but that's it. Basically, the ultimate 'Easy Button' for those too lazy or apathetic to make real food. You guys in the UK probably have the same kind of thing, just under a different name. 😏
We have all sorts of snack foods, some of which you may have too. People like convenience.
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