Went to the park today with my dad as a last hurrah before he goes into the hospital tomorrow, and I had set the goal for today for him to at least try some of the foods at F&W.
My dad is a notoriously picky eater. He does not like trying new foods. Mostly because if he doesn't like it he'll end up feeling like he wasted money on something, and now he'll have to purchase new food to replace the old stuff. So I agreed to pay for said food, since I've tried it previously and was recommending him things that I thought he'd like.
We started off at the Scandinavia booth with the Smørrebrød. In his words he "wouldn't get it on his own, but if he was on a deserted island with only that to eat. (He) would eat it." Which is my dad code for: It's good but not something I'd buy. (he had a hard time keeping a straight face to tell me this, because I knew he'd like it and he kept telling me that he wouldn't.)
Then we hit up Ireland and got the Bangers with Colcannon. He did not like the colcannon, but he did like the sausage.
After Ireland, we headed over to France, where we got the Coq au Vin. He wasn't a fan of it. His big thing though was that it had mushrooms in it. And nowhere on the sign or the menu books does it say it has mushrooms. and since the mushrooms were mostly chopped up, it could be somewhat dangerous because of mushroom allergies. My dad only knew there were mushrooms in it because he some how managed to find the only whole slice of mushroom in the stew.
We left France and headed to Germany, where we got the Schinkennudel. He enjoyed it, it was probably his favorite thing.
The last booth we went to was Scotland, where I tried very hard to get him to agree to eat a Scottish Egg, but I lost on that. (My dad has a taste aversion to hard boiled eggs) So we got the Shepard's Pie. He thought it was decent, and would get it again. But, Shepard's Pie is nothing new to him.
I have to say, even though we didn't try everything, I think I did a pretty damn good job at getting him to try new foods. And I'm pretty proud of that.