Taste the taste in your mouth, taste the taste on your tongue

[venta]

Another day for pointless curiosity... how are you at eating things when you don't know what they are? I made sausages at the weekend (post on the topic coming soon), and offered some pieces of cooked sausage to colleagues to see if they could guess what was in it. Both happily chomped down on mystery food without any info. I regard this as completely normal, but am aware that some people would never do it.

So... in the poll below, I'm asking about whether or not you'd eat mystery food I gave you. This is not just a meal I've cooked, this is something "mysterious" I'm inviting you to try. I'm aware some of you probably trust me, and some of you barely know me. Let's assume I'm someone you know well enough to know won't poison you, or feed you fag-ash-and-spider sausages for a laugh, but not someone whom you feel you know well enough to place special trust in.

Let's also assume that I know about your dietary requirements, so I won't give you meat if you're vegetarian, I won't feed you pork if you eat kosher, and I won't give you wheat if you're coeliac. I have perfect knowledge of your dietary requirements, even if they're quite complicated :) I don't know about your likes and dislikes, though, so won't guarantee not to feed you aubergine if you really hate it.

[Poll #1907455]

I feel there's quite enough options already, if you want to be all snowflakey, you can do it in the comments ;)

Comments

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Hypothetical-you raised a big red flag with "won't give you wheat if you're coeliac". That's sometimes a thing people say when they don't understand that coeliacs can't eat rye, barley or (most) oats, but can eat wheat with the gluten taken out.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I did know wheat wasn't the only problem (and that things like spelt which are low gluten probably aren't OK either); I didn't know you could get deglutenated wheat, though.

Really, though it was just the same as saying "won't give you pork if you eat kosher" - I also won't give my hypothetical kosher-keeper prawns or ostrich or horse or any of the various combinations of otherwise-ok things. I just gave one example for each group :)

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

Yes, I tried to word my comment carefully to show that I thought you might have meant that.

My experience so far has been that most people who say things like 'coeliacs can't eat wheat' *don't* understand that gluten is found in other grains - glad you're a counter-example!

[venta.livejournal.com]

In that case, I think it's always worth your pointing out that it isn't just wheat when you get the opportunity. I hadn't realised that that was a common misunderstanding.

I've never yet had to cook for someone with gluten issues, so it's not really something I know much detail about. A friend-of-a-friend who I'm likely to be seeing more of in social, cake-eating contexts is coeliac, though, so I suspect I shall be making some forays in that direction. At least initially I suspect I'll make cakes that just don't have flour in them before I start experimenting with gluten-free flours. It feels safer that way - though I'm told that brownies made with coconut flour are awesome.