On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 17:09:19 -0500, "cshenk" > wrote:

wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> Judy, Ignore people who get snippy with their answers. You probably
>> know a million things at your age that they don't know. I'm a couple
>> of years older than you, been cooking for decades, and I'm right here
>> right now because I googled "grainy mustard", seeing it for the first
>> time in a recipe today. I picked this link because--just as you
>> did--I thought it would be a nice group of helpful people. But
>> apparently we offended their sensibilities with our foolish question.
>>
>> Reminds me of a time I called New York from California, to a supplier
>> for our business. When they gave me the name of a nearby town, I
>> asked the spelling. She acted like I had asked how to spell "cat".
>> I rattled off a few Spanish names of cities in California and asked
>> if she could spell them. People forget that their experience doesn't
>> exactly mirror theirs. This is kind of arrogant, if you ask me.
>> I'll look for you on Facebook--we can swap cooking experiences.
>
>Hi JB, Some of us are normal (...)

True, but people here really give me a hard time because of it.