"sf" > wrote in message
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> 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.

Hmmm... Okay. I did look it up and got two different meanings. One was
food that would not upset the stomach. Like the BRAT diet. And the other
was having no flavor. I just recall the line from a creepy black and white
movie from the 1960's. The woman's former fiancé dies and she makes a visit
to his mother. She is already engaged to another man. The mother holds her
hostage in the house. Then she serves her dinner. And when she tastes it,
she asks if she can get some salt? The mother replies curtly that no, they
keep a bland diet in the house.