That's not idiotic at all. I admit that fear of the unknown ingredients keeps me away from many foods (if you can't tell me from memory every ingredient that's in your salad or casserole, then maybe I should give it a miss, I figure -- though in my case the first concern is my violent allergic reaction to celery, which people WILL insist on hiding in the most unlikely places as well as the likely ones!).

Even beyond the allergy concerns, I confess that there are a lot of foods I simply dislike. Almost anything with the word 'gravy' in the name is near the top of that list, though anything containing lima beans would rate even higher on my 'dislike-o-meter.'

I love carrots raw or stir-fried or even oven-roasted with herbs and maybe some poultry (NOT pot roast, which I've never seen the attraction of), but I can't abide people who will cook the devil out of carrots and then cover them with a sickly sweet glaze -- my taste buds consider that a perversion of the natural order that should be of far more concern to the public at large than any exotic sexual practices between consenting adults!

If anyone wants sugary cooked carrots, let them make carrot cake . . . just as God intended! (Insert tongue in cheek here.) :)