I wouldn't give up...

The Late Night Gourmet said:
If you had red sauce on a pasta, or pizza, or any Italian or Asian food for that matter, then you had garlic.
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You forget I am rather ancient and pizza, garlicky tomato sauce and Asian foods were not something that a working class Southern British kid from the suburbs would have eaten in the 50's and 60's. Pizza places as such did not exist and there was no pizza on sale in any shop, nor any ready made pasta sauces. The only pasta I knew of was macaroni (for puddings) and tins of Heinz spaghetti. No doubt there were Italian restaurants in cities and particularly London which would have used garlic and maybe served pizza and as you say, there were Asian restaurants. But my family never went to restaurants to eat in any case.

Probably the first garlic I had was when I first went to an Indian restaurant for a curry after I left home at 18.
 
The Late Night Gourmet said:
If you had red sauce on a pasta, or pizza, or any Italian or Asian food for that matter, then you had garlic. Garlic that's in your face - like roasted garlic - is something I can imagine people not having until they're older, but it's what garlic does behind the scenes that would be missed in ways I can't imagine (and wouldn't want to imagine).

Now, as for oysters...did the game change to "what would you happily give up"? :laugh:

I like properly prepared oysters on occasion, but they're very far down the list of "can't live without" foods.
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I'd eat them every day if I could! And have done whilst on holiday by the sea. A dozen at a time!
 
morning glory said:
True - but I must have been 18 before I ever had any so I did a long time without.
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I believe that I was 21 (1970)

The Late Night Gourmet said:
If you had red sauce on a pasta, or pizza, or any Italian or Asian food for that matter, then you had garlic. Garlic that's in your face - like roasted garlic - is something I can imagine people not having until they're older, but it's what garlic does behind the scenes that would be missed in ways I can't imagine (and wouldn't want to imagine).
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I'm not sure that I had pasta before I was 21 and I'd probably never heard of pizza. We were somewhat backward in Yorkshire.
 
Bread. Decent bread. I can't' have proper bread at home as my husband has a severe allergy to gluten. Gluten free bread is not nearly as good as the proper stuff.

When I visit my parents (about every fortnight) I go straight for the bread bin and cut a slice of bread, toast it and top it with marmalade.
 
I had to give up alcohol for three months to let my liver recover from the side effects of anti-malarial tablets. Neither of these events is one I would like to repeat. There is a lot of bad beer in this world that I could quite happily live without, but there is a lot of good beer. I see it as a moral duty to drink good beer.
 
The Late Night Gourmet said:
If you had red sauce on a pasta, or pizza, or any Italian or Asian food
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Hmm, have you ever been to England or Ireland?

I have had "Italian" food in both, and while most was very good, often exceptional, I was also introduced to the worst versions of tomato sauce that would make a nonna cry and throw things at you if you were the cook.
 
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