Problem with my apple pie 2046

Mordechai Housman wrote on 27 May 2006 in rec.food.cooking

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Not necessarily true. Usually this kinda thing happens when one is too tied up with one thing, too committed... to say a career, a longterm ill family member...that sort of thing. Or never leaving a fixed area.

Sure if I shopped in the same small local corner stores, in the same area of town every time. It might take some time befoe I saw something new. Smaller stores have less chance to try new things...due to less shelf space, less knowledge of what's out there, and needing to make happy/ensure their customers. Small stores have to go with what works or they risk going out of business. Plus their suppliers don't necessarily try to sell them newer types of products. For example a local corner kosher grocery store wouldn't find necessary to carry a wide range of Chinese, Mexican or Italian foodstuffs (even if the products met the dietary laws).

Cities are where the most people are (concentrated population base), so they see the "new" things first. New Products are usually tried/tested out in larger population centers first.

In my opinion apple pie without spices is not worth making. Might as well just make apple sauce, heck even the blandess apple sauce has spices.

Seems to me you need to expand your horizons or get a hobby or do something rash like shop across town. Make youself a vow to try at least one new thing (to you) a week...whether it be a food style/product, movie, tying your shoes or a new route to work...Getting stuck in a rutt can affect your intelligence, mood and other aspects of your life and personality, and those of your children as well. Sure you'll have some diasters but the pleasant surprises should make that well worth while.

But then again what do I know...I'm just a Blue Collar worker. And sure it's easy to say these things...but finding the time and the energy is yet another thing.

-- -Alan