tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post3235320843225844240..comments2024-03-14T04:07:39.792-07:00Comments on Earl Pomerantz: Just Thinking...: "I Once Ate Ten Hotdogs"Earl Pomerantzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16963705121297866334noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-88225123565818308832015-08-13T22:31:21.423-07:002015-08-13T22:31:21.423-07:00You ARE the big dog now! You ARE the big dog now! Oscarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7823625636675642409.post-18206754711266249222015-08-13T05:04:46.290-07:002015-08-13T05:04:46.290-07:00My first acquaintance with that sort of cafeteria ...My first acquaintance with that sort of cafeteria cooking was at Cornell as a summer session high school student. I lost two pounds a week all summer, and subsisted on milk and (awful) bread. <br /><br />Hypersensitive taste buds is a real thing: look up supertaster, distinguished by the density of the taste buds on the tongue. Supertasters are particularly sensitive to bitter flavors, and the test for it is a strip of paper impregnated with a chemical. It's quite hilarious to get a bunch of these and pass them around a family gathering: the ones who can taste it *really* hate it, and the others can't understand what on earth they're tasting in these ordinary pieces of paper.<br /><br />Is your grandson Milo by any chance named after Milo in THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH? If he isn't, could he be, retroactively? And if you haven't read the book, run, do not walk to look it up and read it to him. Written by Norton Juster.<br /><br />wgWendy M. Grossmanhttp://www.pelicancrossing.netnoreply@blogger.com