Plátanos y Tostones! (Wait, what? Plantains and plantains?)

[Cainad (dec.)]

That might be it.
I really love bananas and a plantain is not a banana but it looks like one so it tricks my brain.

Like if cake tasted like mashed potatoes.

This makes sense. When you put something in your mouth expecting it to taste and feel like something, and it doesn't, the reaction is usually negative. That's why I don't like grits: when I was little (like 8 or something) I got grits when I was expecting mashed potatoes. Result:

[Suu]

My mom did that to me with pickled beets and cranberry sauce.

"Is that cranberry sauce?!"

"Yes sweetie, here eat!"

"Yum!" *bite* *spit* 

[East Coast Hustle]

pickled beets > cranberry goop

[Jenne]

pickled beets > cranberry goop

Word.

The cranberry relish my mom makes fresh pawns all.  She puts orange peel and a bunch of yummy shit I don't remember in it.  The cranberry jelly stuff is yuck.  Always chemical-tasting, actually.

[East Coast Hustle]

yeah.

cranberry sauce/relish/jelly/whatever should NOT end up on my plate in uniform 2" circular slices.

that's fucking nast.

[Suu]

 I never said it was a delicacy, but for an 8-9 year old expecting cranberry sauce, beets are fucking disgusting.

[Jenne]

That WOULD be quite the MF.

[Suu]

That and the classic, "Sweet potatoes taste like candy" bit. 

[Darth Cupcake]

That and the classic, "Sweet potatoes taste like candy" bit. 

Oh man, I loooooove sweet potatoes.

[Suu]

I do now.

I didn't 10 years ago, that's for sure. I still won't eat beets.

[Darth Cupcake]

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/WILDFLOWER-HONEY-AND-WHISKY-GLAZED-SWEET-POTATOES-240460

I must make that.

[trippinprincezz13]

That and the classic, "Sweet potatoes taste like candy" bit. 

Yeah, my mom still says that. I like them ok, and will eat them if served to me, but won't go out of my way to make them unless it's sweet potato fries.

[Suu]

Tostones didn't happen last night because we had a wedding rehearsal dinner. They will come...uh...eventually.

[Eve]

That and the classic, "Sweet potatoes taste like candy" bit. 

Yeah, my mom still says that. I like them ok, and will eat them if served to me, but won't go out of my way to make them unless it's sweet potato fries.

Holy crap, sweet potato fries are delicious. Now I want some.

[Suu]

That and the classic, "Sweet potatoes taste like candy" bit. 

Yeah, my mom still says that. I like them ok, and will eat them if served to me, but won't go out of my way to make them unless it's sweet potato fries.

Holy crap, sweet potato fries are delicious. Now I want some.

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