When it comes to taste of food what really drives me mad is the way people have developed a sense of what tastes "right" or "normal." I can't be the only one who has run into people that don't like real hollandaise because it tastes "too lemony." Well, it is a lemon sauce, what did you expect? And, of course, what they expect is Knorr yellow fat sauce, which tastes of fat. And yellow. I guess. So many of our taste expectations have been determined by mass market simulated flavours that the model they where derived from seems alien or "weird." Its like food through the looking glass. The authentic seems unnatural and the simulated seems to be more real.
--Al |