Robot Claw

I’m a bit of a picky eater, and there are a few foods I don’t like.

This list includes mushrooms, broccoli, carrots, garlic, cheesecake, non-vanilla ice cream, iced tea, root beer, pepsi, squid, parsley, sweet potato, cauliflower, peanut-butter based candy, most flavours of corn chip, beer, wine, alcohol in general, lots of eggy foods, rhubarb, virtually all baked goods including brownies, most cakes and most biscuits, quiche, meatloaf, alfredo sauce, most other types of pasta sauce, most mexican food, calzones, buffalo chicken flavouring, maple syrup, mayonnaise, hot sauce, coffee, cherry flavouring, eel, celery, brussel sprouts, french toast, oatmeal, mashed potato and (relevant to this story) cream cheese.

Sooooo… my good friend SFL made for KLS and I a cake for Christmas. She was a bit embarrassed about it; thought it overcooked and all, but I tucked into it with a vengeance and over the next 6 or 7 hours managed to eat about half of it. I was particularly enamoured of the icing, and commented numerous times how delicious it was, with such comments as “This icing makes the cake!” and “The best thing about the cake is the icing.” KLS thought the icing may have ever been a bit thick, but I’d have none of that and kept shovelling it into my mouth.

Cut to later that night, when KLS ventured the following: “I think there is cream cheese in that icing!”

This was like a frozen sword into my heart. I never, ever paused to consider what the icing was made of (aside from an obviously wrong delusion it was lemon based). I just ate and ate. And now the thought had been planted that this was a trojan cake, succeeding where so many had failed before to break my unbreakable wall of ‘foods I don’t eat’ defenses…

The next day, upon asking, SFL did indeed confirm (with a grin) that the icing did not only contain cream cheese, but was… like 185% cream cheese! Although she had no idea I didn’t like or eat (<- ie. had never tried) cream cheese, I strongly suspect she was pleased with her success to get me to eat it.

My epicurean world has been literally turned upside down by this event, and what reply can I possibly make when KLS intones “Who knows what else you like that you haven’t even tried?”

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