I got an excellent reminder about living a skeptical life style today with my lunch.
There’s a local Chinese food place that is near the office. I was doing errands and friend I haven’t talked to a couple of weeks met me for lunch.
I tend to order the same thing because I know that I like it. Most of the ‘fast food’ places tend to have very static menus. What’s good is good, what’s bad is not. And it rarely changes.
This time, the cooks or the girl taking my order made a mistake. I got something else.
Let me explain. I think baby corn is an abomination. I loathe baby corn. I will starve to death before I consume baby corn. Let’s just say that we don’t send each other Christmas cards.
Therefore, I avoid the vegetable package with the baby corn in it. Snap peas and bamboo shoots aren’t my favorite, but they aren’t baby corn, therefore they win.
My order today had [shudder]… baby corn… cough cough gag!
However, I was already short on time and needed to get to a meeting. So, I just pushed the [shudder] baby corn to the side.
To my absolute delight, the rest of the veggie package was excellent. Mushrooms and zucchini and carrots. I love zucchini. We eat it 3 or 4 time a week at our place. A sliced zucchini liberally sprinkled with Parmesan cheese and steamed in the microwave for 4 minutes is awesome. I like mushrooms even more than I like zucchini.
I guess, if there’s enough spicy black bean sauce, that the taste of the [shudder] baby corns are sufficiently masked.
I’m a little sad that I spent all this time avoiding the really good stuff because of something I didn’t like (but could have easily dealt with). But I’m happy I discovered this.
Skepticism lesson learned.
Question everything.
All the time.
Every time.
Always.
