"Hadd hai, bhai" -- One on disgust sensitivity

As the talk by the famous scientist ended, we came out of the Tata Auditorium and went on to grab some refreshments -- a brownie, a samosa, chai, ketchup, etc. At one point, a friend of mine was stunned/ surprised to see me do something that she might have seen as too weird or disgusting. "Vinod, what was that!?". Another friend standing next to us, who missed the scene, exclaimed, "I would have puked had I seen him do that." And that's when I realized (or I was reminded) what's so normal and okay for me to eat isn't the same for most people around me. 

What did I do? I, not so mindfully, dipped a corner of brownie in the ketchup and went on to eat it as if there was nothing off/ wrong/weird about it. This is not to say that brownies smeared with ketchup tasted better than brownies alone. It probably didn't. Here is the thing -- I wasn't doing something like that for the first time. I have been doing sweet and spicy eating experiments often in recent years. And I like the taste of a mixture of sweet and spicy stuff. Yes, I have reached a stage in my life where, when it comes to eating, I have become too flexible and very open to all kinds of experiments as long as they don't involve the eatables that I don't like at all. 

to be continued...