msbelle!

For the record: cilantro: yea, olives, grapefruit, rootbeer (and all sodas): nay. I also like hot pepper (up to a point) which makes the dish taste spicier.

Note that receptors for cilantro and receptors for hot peppers are separate from the ones for bitter and the rest, so it's perfectly possible to have a very mixed set of preferences.

In short: "Human taste preferences freaky."

I like cilantro. Most root beer is too sweet for me, but I drank a LOT of it while I was pregnant.

And I can't believe we're having the fork-switching conversation again. I love you people and your crazy repetitive obsessions.

Oh, and I totally use RSS, but since I've created a feed from scratch I probably don't count as a non-geek. But I won't even read a blog unless I can subscribe to it with Google Reader.

No bacon. Vegetarian.

If using both a knife and fork, I use them European style. I'm American, but my paternal grandmother was British, so that's probably where it came from. Being vegetarian, though, I seldom eat things that require serious cutting.

I don't understand the vegan cheese recipes where the flavorings are just nutritional yeast, mustard, and garlic.

I made the vegan "gooda" from Joanne Stepaniak's Uncheeee Cookbook once. I was trying to come up with a vegan, lower fat version of "Dutch Potato Cheese Soup" (Anna Thomas, The Vegetarian Epicure, Book 2). The original is yummy but gets 40% of its calories from fat. Anyway, we were amazed that the lower fat vegan version made with Stepaniak's fake gouda tasted exactly like the fat and dairy laden original. Even my omnivorous husband thought so.

Ante up - what are your preferences?

Love grapefruit and cilantro.

Love bacon.

I switch fork hands after cutting my food, although for awhile after the first big discussion, I stopped. But I kept dropping my fork so I went back to the Other Way.

I am not sure what cilantro tastes like.

I am not a geek and I use (and love) bloglines.

I switch hands, usually, although (and I am sure I actually mentioned this in the last discussion) when I was a little girl I didn't. And my mother was all offended, saying "Are you from EUROPE? or a BARBARIAN!". This is very similar to her views on wearing a watch on one's right wrist if one is right handed 'Do you want people to think you are LEFT-HANDED!?!"

I think everything is made better with bacon.

Jessica, it's very nice of you to put this link in your tag.

Bobbi, I don't think I've ever posted with you before, so welcome!

wearing a watch on one's right wrist if one is right handed 'Do you want people to think you are LEFT-HANDED!?!"

I wear my watch on my right hand, because I found it to be more comfortable than on the left hand (and I am not left handed, and I can't find a proper way to insert a "Princess Bride" joke here, alas).

I don't switch, but if I'm eating something with a fork but no knife, I use my right hand.

Cilantro, boo! Grapefruit - it's been so long since I've eaten one I couldn't even say. Like the juice, though. Rootbeer, yay, though I don't drink it often.

I wear my watch on my right wrist. But I'm left handed, so I'm not the best subject for this question.

RIght handed, wear my watch (when I have one) on my left wrist.