On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:34:01 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> wrote:

> I am watching that Four Weddings show and that was how the one bride
> described the food at another bride's wedding. To me, bland would be lack
> of any seasoning or severe underseasoning. The foods that they showed were
> some kind of seafood in a shell...it was so bad that nobody could tell what
> it was supposed to be... Chicken, lamb and roasted potatoes. I suppose to
> me that bland would also apply to specific foods. Like mashed potatoes with
> no salt. Dried beans with no salt. Or foods that you might expect to have
> some heat to them but winds up not having any. Like salsa, some Mexican
> foods, chili, or other ethnic foods that usually contain a lot of spices. I
> could see calling a food too salty. But I can't see how too salty could be
> bland. What does bland mean to you?
>

Bland means pretty much the same thing to me and I can understand it
if someone said the food was bland but over salted. Salt should
enhance flavor not be the flavor.

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Food is an important part of a balanced diet.