Alex,

Lighten up. She was not denigrating Kombucha, but rather her first
attempt at it. Her reaction bears no relation whatsoever to the
ignorance you describe at your local market.


Alex Chaihorsky wrote:
> Yes, Anna, it is like sparkling cider. However it became fashionable
> recently among some of our American friends to describe anything outside
> their immediate contemporary culture with denigrating epithets.
>
> I was recently buying beef tongue at Rayley's and both checkout lady and her
> "paper or plastic" helper expressed utter disgust with my purchase which
> they did never even try to hide. After I told them that beef tongue is a
> delicacy and they should try it one day I was bluntly asked "Oh, and where
> did you come from?"
> When I tried to make connection to the American history and asked them if
> they ever heard of American buffalo being driven into almost an extinction
> by the white hunters who would take only tongues and leave the rest of the
> buffalo to rot, they laughed and told me that I was an insane story.
> Then I asked them why would their establishment sell these things if they
> obviously think that its not edible? The answer was priceless - the checkout
> lady said that she is glad that nothing is get wasted and the boy said that
> some peoples even eat pig feet glancing at a Latino lady behind me.
> The Latino lady was less prepared to hear that rubbish and asked for a
> manager. At which point both worldly cuisine experts shut up and finished
> their work quickly.
>
> I have to admit that in my 20 years here I never seen people being so proud
> of their ignorance as I see recently.
> Someone may not like something and think that it is disgusting or whatever.
> So, when asked about it directly , just say that kombucha is not your cup of
> tea. If asked on the public forum, just keep silent. Describing something
> that you know many people enjoy in these denigrating and outright disgusting
> terms is ugly and boorish.
>
> Sasha.
>
>
>
> "Anna Carter" > wrote in message
> ...
> > What I made years ago was like sparkling cider. If it brews too long it
> > does get nasty.
> >
> > "Konrad Scorciapino" > wrote in message
> > oups.com...
> >> Imagine that of pile of wet laundry. Now put some sauerkraut over, and
> >> let it stand in the sun for a month. That's what my first batch of
> >> Kombucha tasted like. Then I figured I must have made something wrong,
> >> and threw everything away.
> >>
> >> However, some people say it actually tastes good, so I plan to try it
> >> again, since some years ago I made a similar mistake of saying that
> >> (green) tea was horrible, simply because I couldn't brew it correctly.
> >>
> >> --k
> >>
> >
> >