Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Friday - 02.28.2025 - Dinner Plans Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2025 04:25:06 +1100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <2aec43beee826868435d75edd1bd9cab@www.novabbs.org> <2c70bcbfc2d73aa90e4f7a62e622c2d3@www.novabbs.org> <0177f1fb629bb7b095ffc363e1a3a779@www.novabbs.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:25:12 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="492c9dbe05cd7363abcfcbd2530e4216"; logging-data="266142"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18zOrNBB5TWGuGxwqR79Bb8" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:41s4toIXK5uWUOkSIQjz7/TE0gc= Bytes: 2376 On Sat, 8 Mar 2025 15:43:28 +0000, dsi100@yahoo.com (dsi1) wrote: >On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 22:16:54 +0000, Bruce wrote: > >> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 16:33:32 -0500, Dave Smith >> wrote: >> >>>Anna, a former member of the group, spoke about bitter melon in a >>>negative way. Her parents were Chinese and it was a part of the family >>>food tradition that she never liked. >> >> I can understand that people eat bitter melon for real or perceived >> medical reasons, for instance when they have diabetes. But it doesn't >> taste better than a bunch of ground-up headache pills. > >I eat bitter melon because of the taste, not because it'll make me >healthy. It doesn't matter much if people can't comprehend that. I'd eat >it more but it's 5 bucks a pound. > >https://photos.app.goo.gl/YjbABETBU1MAP3ct6 Maybe your Chinese way of cooking it makes something barely edible taste good. -- Bruce