Anticipating Taste Tripping

I am finally going to be able to experience the effects of miracle fruit via tablet form. I am excited for the box to arrive and have already started a list of possible foods to experiment. Now, this taste testing session would be a special occasion for most any person, but for me it is something more.

You see, I was labeled a "picky eater" from infancy and my tastes haven't changed much since then. Lets just say it would be easier to list the items I will eat than to try and rattle off all of the foods on my self imposed inedible black list. For instance, I have never tasted a fresh tomato. Don't bother to ask me why, because I'm not quite sure. I don't have a specific answer as to why so many foods are taboo to me. Salad dressing - never touch it. Ham - no way! Although, I love bacon and pork chops.

There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for my obsessive compulsive reaction to most foods. Of all the foods that I won't eat or have never tried, the one I get the biggest reaction when explaining is the good old fashion American hamburger. Though I don't anticipate that miracle fruit will entice me to sample a double cheese burger from McDonald's, perhaps a pleasant result from my future taste tripping adventure will allure me into sampling some other foods which tastes have eluded me thus far.

I have started to explore a bit beyond my normal and rather boring menu recently. Most notably, I attended a sushi rolling class at the fantastic New Asian cuisine restaurant Sunda in Chicago. The class was the prize given by owner and entrepreneur, Billy Dec, for being one of the first people to encourage a set number of followers on his Facebook page. He was shocked to hear that I had never tasted a hamburger, being the foodie that he is, but made it his mission to ensure I didn't head back to Wisconsin before tasting sushi.