{"id":3846,"date":"2006-07-10T00:18:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T07:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/09\/on-trying-tapioca\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T10:32:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T18:32:56","slug":"on-trying-tapioca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2006\/07\/10\/on-trying-tapioca\/","title":{"rendered":"On trying tapioca"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6221,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  That was seriously one of the strangest things I&#8217;ve ever had in my mouth.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Prairie, after I convinced her to try tapioca pudding.<\/p>\n<p>She wasn&#8217;t impressed. Actually, she didn&#8217;t even get through more than two tiny little bites (she <em>says<\/em> they were spoonfulls, but she barely dented the top of the pudding cup).<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it probably didn&#8217;t help that part of why she&#8217;d never <em>had<\/em> tapioca before was because her mom detests it, and would involuntarily shudder every time it was mentioned. And, my comparing it to frogs eggs, or holding up a spoon full, looking at it, and commenting that, &#8220;It&#8217;s like it&#8217;s looking at you, with lots of tiny little eyes,&#8221; likely wasn&#8217;t much in the way of constructive encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>So no more tapioca for Prairie. That&#8217;s alright &#8212; it&#8217;s all the more for me (which in itself is more than a little odd, as I&#8217;m pretty picky about what I eat, and texture is an important part of why I like or dislike something, and as Prairie pointed out, from everything she&#8217;s seen me enjoy or turn my nose up at, I <em>should<\/em> be entirely squicked out by tapioca, and yet, I&#8217;m rather fond of it&#8230;we figure it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m a boy, and it&#8217;s a good &#8220;gross out food&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" title=\"Get iTunes\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"iTunes\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/ad.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/show?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;bids=78941.10000170&amp;type=4&amp;subid=0\" alt=\"\" \/> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms %253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRenegade Soundwave%2526songTerm=Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield)%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield)' on the iTMS\">Renegade Soundwave (Leftfield)<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRenegade Soundwave%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'Renegade Soundwave' on the iTMS\">Renegade Soundwave<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click. linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DRenegade Soundwave%2526albumTerm=In to the Mix%26partnerId%3D30\" title=\"Search for 'In to the Mix' on the iTMS\">In to the Mix<\/a> <\/em> (1994, 7:51).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That was seriously one of the strangest things I&#8217;ve ever had in my mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,13,16],"class_list":["post-3846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-life","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}