On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 8:41:57 AM UTC-5, songbird wrote:
> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> > On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 4:39:35 PM UTC-5, songbird wrote:
> ...
> >> some of us don't count salt as an actual flavor. i consider
> >> it a preservative.
> >
> > Yet you have distinct taste receptors for that very flavor.
> i know, it's commie plot i tell ya!
> >> i eat corned beef very rarely anyways.
> >
> > I prefer pastrami. I've never liked "boiled dinner". Sandwiches are
> > preferably for either corned beef or pastrami.
> >
> > That said, I very rarely eat either one anyways.
> once in a while i like some corned beef hash or
> a good sandwich, but rarely would we make an entire
> chunk of meat - probably because Mom doesn't like
> cooked cabbage any more.

Similar here. Our needs for corned beef or pastrami are well
satisfied by getting a sandwich at the deli (or buying the meat
and making our own). He won't eat it any other way, so there's
no point making it for just myself. My aging guts could never
tolerate that much beef so many days in a row.

Cindy Hamilton