Wira and Taylor, despite working intimately with the birds, both admitted that neither of them has actually tasted ayam cemani meat.
The "It's a Surprise" meal was far more glamorous, served out of gleaming silver chafing dishes, on frosted glass plates, and the food was a huge hit with everyone, especially nurses who had known of the doctor's gourmet prowess but had not actually tasted his creations.
John Shelton Reed, a distinguished sociologist of the South, who is writing a book that deals with local specialties, acknowledged that the only dish in the book he hadn't actually tasted for himself was the pig-snoot sandwich; he took the word of another cookbook writer that the texture is "something like that of a rawhide dog toy".
I've never actually tasted BEL Paese cheese, but you knew I just had to make my exit with this: Your thoughts?
I haven't actually tasted it – not yet, anyway.
I played an eager young interviewer, bringing his hand-mike to the old man's cave and peppering him with questions, challenges, skepticism and, once, mock hurt feelings, asking, "Why are you rude to me, sir?" "Why are you wearing a cardboard belt?" Example of a challenge: "Sir, I don't think you've ever actually tasted the beer we're selling.
Which means, in English: this year's best Broadway shows, as voted for by about 700 insiders, producers, theatre owners, marketing executives and a smattering of impartial critics (you know, the ones who've actually got taste).
I've actually found they taste even better the next day or two after when the flavors have had time to meld together.
It's called Tart Cherry Stomp and will remind you instantly how rare it is to have something that actually tastes like cherries in something labeled "cherry".
