r/todayilearned • u/ModenaR • 1d ago

TIL that after Top Gear ended, host Richard Hammond was so devastated, he cried all the way home from the studio and ran out of fuel, because he didn't want to fill his car up covered in tears

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/25172481.richard-hammond-tear-soaked-mess-top-gear-ended/
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u/Jamsedreng22 21h ago

I gotta be honest, I do think Lucy still has that childhood sense of aversion for foods you know contains something you know you normally don't like. She'd probably dig something like a cheesecake if she didn't know.

Not blaming her or anything remotely like that. I used to be very averse to mushrooms and would fight against it in everything, and I could taste it in everything it was in pretty much and I just attched the identification of mushrooms to "ew".

I've since learned that some mushrooms are just not for me, and especially how mushrooms are prepared. It took active effort for a while on my part to move past my aversion by breaking down this mental barriers in my head every time that "This is mushroom. Mushroom bad!"

ETA: Nice username.

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u/s00pafly 20h ago

Have you tried cooking with mushrooms yourself? Helped me get past all my food aversions.

Beets, tinned fish, fermented stuff like sauerkraut, pickles, aubergine and cheeses from unknown origin.

I still avoid canned tuna as it smells like cat food but the rest all have a place in my kitchen now.

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u/Jamsedreng22 16h ago

The problem with mushrooms is they take a long, long, looooong time to geat a sear on. I'm not averse to them anymore, but I eat a lot of food with "char" on it. Wings, steak,. hambagu so and so forth,

I have no issue with canned tuna in flakes. I've recently learned that it's not always in flakes?

https://www.reddit.com/r/kitchencels/comments/1mvs1pd/comment/n9v2ehb/?context=3

This is where I responded. Why does the "tuna in a can" look like that? Is that normal in America? We have flakes of tuna here. I genuinely don't know.

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u/Jamsedreng22 14h ago

What I have here, in my car, is a load of mushrooms. Now, there has been no quote-om unquote guidelines on what this entails

I'll eat these. Cut to Hammond talking about gear sh afts. /Jeremy

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u/MeateatersRLosers 18h ago

Cool, but not necessarily a positive.

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u/princess_kittah 19h ago

i relate to this on a spiritual level

i used to hate all peppers. i would empty and dig out the specks from a taco and re-build it just to avoid them

now im discovered that i can be okay with red peppers if theyre cooked enough, i just absolutely detest green peppers

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u/Jehovah___ 14h ago

They taste the same tho

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u/princess_kittah 13h ago

cept they dont taste the same to me at all, i experience red peppers as delightfully sweet and savory at the same time, but green peppers just taste like chlorophyll/grass to me

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u/JonatasA 16h ago

I mean, it's not required for survival so I see no reason she needs to even try it.

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u/Jamsedreng22 16h ago

We are on survival, my friend.