0 Low Brow Taste

I have low brow taste.

I think it comes from growing up very poor and developing a taste for the types of food that I grew up with. I have been to really good restaurants and tried their supposedly really good food, but it literally doesn't taste good to me. Offer me a choice between a free dinner at a five-star French restaurant or paying for myself at Taco Bell, and I will be eating 2 tacos and a bean burrito with Pepsi. Sorry to make so many of you cringe, but that's the flat-out truth. Taco Bell was so cheap when I was in college that I ate there pretty much every day. It cost me $2 for the abovementioned meal.

This is the thing my wife hates most about me. She is my polar opposite when it comes to food, a caviar and wine girl if there ever was one. Give her a choice between something that looks amazing but tastes like crap verses something low brow but good tasting, and she will pick the presentation or pedigree any day.

Living overseas means being away from all the foods I crave most. It's the number one thing I miss due to my life away from the States. I dream of Red Lobster, Arby's, Village Inn, Schlotzsky's, Denny's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Hot Dog on a Stick, and so many other junk food places. I dream of firing up my oven at home and being able to cook up some Gorton's Crunchy Fish fillets with Ore Ida Texas Crispers french fries, or perhaps a nice Tombstone pepperoni pizza.

No, I am stuck with all these local foods that taste pretty crappy to me. June 21 can't come quickly enough, when I will get to spend a few weeks back home and get some decent food for a change!