I don't like mushrooms

This is surprisingly difficult for some people to comprehend or accept.

I'm not about to change my mind about this. I've never liked them, and throughout my life I have tried them in various forms to see if my opinions have changed. They haven't.

So why do some people keep trying to force me to eat them? Not in a tying me down stuffing down my face kind of way (socially unacceptable in almost all communities, except perhaps college frat parties), but in a much more subversive, difficult to avoid way.

My sister is on a mission to convince me that I actually like them. So she chops them up into the sauce of things, really small, and when I ask her suspiciously if there are any mushrooms in there, she outright lies about it. I don't understand her logic. Why would she be so eager to make me eat something which I clearly don't want to? I don't think it's punishment, although it's hard to be sure with siblings.

I think this dogmaticness runs in my family somewhat - my dad is equally convinced that if I just gave them a try, I would miraculously discover that I don't find them slimey, unpleasantly mushy and just generally unpalatable. Both my dad and my sister will argue their point to the death and seem to find it hard to accept that there is any other viewpoint. I mean, my sister doesn't like pancakes and my dad doesn't really like pasta, but I'm not going to try to convert them to the way of the egg or the spaghetti. What's the point?

There is no particular reason for this post, by the way, no-one has made me eat mushrooms recently (as far as I'm aware, I'm not discounting night-time forcefeeding while I'm asleep), but I did mention to my brother on our round the country road-trip how much I hated the dreaded funghi and he seemed to find that pretty hard to accept.

As for the round the country trip, it was pretty cool, lots of good views and good food. Mmmm. I won't bore you with it. I might put some pix up on flickr as soon as I can get round to it.

In other news, I'm watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs somewhat incessantly at the moment and have developed a huge crush on both Spike (despite the dodgy accent) and Seth Green. Mmmm. Not Angel though, except when he's evil.

More on that story later.