ah,

Calm down.
Comparing something that one knows many people enjoy with a pile of rotting
wet laundry is bad manners.
I think she, actually, agreed.

Sasha.




"ah2323" > wrote in message
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> 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
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>