{"id":2907,"date":"2010-04-05T23:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T06:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2907"},"modified":"2010-04-05T23:58:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T06:58:31","slug":"foodspotting-5-my-taste-preference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2907","title":{"rendered":"Foodspotting #5: My taste preference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/circia\/4495718735\/\" title=\"Chips and Salsa at Papalote by jdng, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2712\/4495718735_dc96a47d0d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Chips and Salsa at Papalote\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s this moment when you take your next bite&#8230;and you say to yourself <i>ugh, I feel so sick<\/i>.  That was me when I was at my 97th item.<\/p>\n<p>In this case unlike the adventure of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/circia\/52785437\/\">6 lb burger<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/circia\/153324055\/\">150 slice pizza<\/a>, it wasn&#8217;t because I was full.  It was because my preferred taste didn&#8217;t match the list owner&#8217;s taste preference.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, while I had the tuna tartare and &#8220;gin martini&#8221; at Bix&#8230;I was&#8230;appalled.  I could barely eat the olives.  I hated gin.  But I was doing all for the sake of this list.  It was someone else&#8217;s list.  It was not mine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/circia\/4496392004\/\" title=\"Blue Bell Bitter at Magnolia Pub and Brewery by jdng, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2778\/4496392004_68136323b1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Blue Bell Bitter at Magnolia Pub and Brewery\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And beer.  Ugh.  I dragged surrogates along to endure the taste that I hated, but hopefully they enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p>Now nearing the end of the list, I am surprised to find that I only enjoyed less than 10% of the list.  The majority of the list was just ok.  I am talking about both the taste and the experience of the item.  And the value.  Or that I enjoyed something else there entirely.<\/p>\n<p>The things I enjoyed?  Lobster pot pie at Michael Mina, meatballs with grapes at Aziza, clam chowder at Hog Island Oyster Depot, the abondingas soup at Mijita, cookies and cream cookie at Anthony&#8217;s Cookies, 7 courses of beef at Pagolac, roast chicken salad at Zuni&#8230;and all the ice cream.   But was that it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s this moment when you take your next bite&#8230;and you say to yourself ugh, I feel so sick. That was me when I was at my 97th item. In this case unlike the adventure of the 6 lb burger and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=2907\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,24],"class_list":["post-2907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-7x7","tag-foodspotting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2909,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2907\/revisions\/2909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}