Comments on: Peaches http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2008/09/28/peaches/ Daily writings about fitness, diet, and health Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:52:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Renee http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2008/09/28/peaches/#comment-209210 Renee Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:49:54 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/?p=2027#comment-209210 <p>Mary Ann I have to say something about the okra.... Truth is that was the only way I could eat okra as well - FRIED. But within the past year I LOVE it plain! :o) I really do. I guess our taste buds just end up changing - much like yours did with the pears.</p> Mary Ann I have to say something about the okra…. Truth is that was the only way I could eat okra as well – FRIED. But within the past year I LOVE it plain! :o ) I really do. I guess our taste buds just end up changing – much like yours did with the pears.

]]> By: Mary Anne http://www.starling-fitness.com/archives/2008/09/28/peaches/#comment-209185 Mary Anne Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:43:49 +0000 http://www.starling-fitness.com/?p=2027#comment-209185 <p>The only way I have learned to like okra is FRIED, so I might as well skip that one! </p> <p>Here's a curious thing: when I was a child I just loved pears, gobbled them down. Then I tested allergic to them for many years. After more than ten years of not eating a bite of pear, I was no longer allergic to them, so I eagerly tried one. It didn't taste good. Thinking that was maybe a bad pear, I tried another, later. I've tried them fresh, canned, made into desserts, and they taste bland and boring now. Even after fifty years, the way they tasted to me as a child makes my mouth water remembering. Not real pears, not now. It's sad.</p> The only way I have learned to like okra is FRIED, so I might as well skip that one!

Here’s a curious thing: when I was a child I just loved pears, gobbled them down. Then I tested allergic to them for many years. After more than ten years of not eating a bite of pear, I was no longer allergic to them, so I eagerly tried one. It didn’t taste good. Thinking that was maybe a bad pear, I tried another, later. I’ve tried them fresh, canned, made into desserts, and they taste bland and boring now. Even after fifty years, the way they tasted to me as a child makes my mouth water remembering. Not real pears, not now. It’s sad.

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