We had to be out and about running errands today, so we stopped into one of our favorite restaurants for a spot of lunch.
Oddly enough, the wife and I both ordered he same thing – quesadillas. Hers was burnt beef tips, while mine was pulled chicken. She had Beer Mac N’ Cheese with hers, while I had fries with mine. (I wanted the Beer Mac N’ Cheese, but given that I had a beer-based sloppy joe one time and it shot my blood sugar way up, I’m avoiding beer-based foods.) We were discussing drinks and I mentioned that I had to give up Dr. Pepper recently. The waiter suggested I try Dr. Pepper Zero Sugar. He said it tastes better than regular Dr. Pepper. I’ll look into it. I suspect it has aspartame, which can cause headaches, gastrointestinal issues, and possibly cancer. Still, the gastroenterologist I saw recently said those are both of the first two are very rare results and drinking it shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll give it a shot. If I find the taste tolerable, I may be able to start having my weekly Dr. Pepper again. Weekly, because I don’t want to push the possibility of any of the three possible side effects. I did like Diet Dr. Pepper, or at least found it the least objectionable of all the diet sodas, but stopped drinking it because of the aspartame in it.
Anyway, the place had TVs on the walls and most of them were set to shows about food. I watched bits and pieces of them while waiting for our food. Most of the things being cooked did not sound appealing to me at all.
That’s when the idea hit me for a new TV series. I admit, I’m a picky eater. Always have been. I tend to find a food I like, and don’t deviate from it. That’s why I most likely have diabetes now. I have tried expanding my horizons some over the last twenty-nine years that I’ve known the wife. There have been a few things I’ve added to my repertoire since then.
I’d call the show “Will Jim Eat it?” Chefs will come on the show and make the types of things that make on all these cooking shows. Then they’d bring it to me to taste test it. If it is something I’d eat, they win. (What they win I haven’t figured out yet.) If I don’t like it I could pull a Gordon Ramsey and scream “This taste like shit!” and throw the food in their face. Or I could say something like “I’ve never tasted irradiated horse piss, but I’m sure it tastes like Mountain Dew”. (True story.) (Sorry to any Mountain Dew fans out there but I can’t stand the stuff. The wife chugs Diet Mountain Dew like there’s no tomorrow.)
The idea still needs some work, but I figure there’s a market for it. It would gain popularity the more outrageous my reactions to foods I hate become. Heck, if I do it right, there will be memes of me all over the Internet.
Anyone got any connections to someone in the Food Network they can put me in touch with to pitch the idea to them?
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