This was, in fact, only the latest of several tasting rounds for the strozzapreti.
It leads to sandy beaches so ideal for kids that you could lose a day here, but we pedal on and two miles later enter pretty Seaview village where we stay at Seaview Hotel, a Taste Round the Island destination.
Also our guide today, he gives us a taster of the eastern leg of his newly devised Taste Round the Island cycle route, a 66-mile circuit with stops at local producers and eateries.
Lemonades (very lemony-tasting, round cookies with a lemon design on them that were introduced in 2006, usually sold in a yellow box), are often confused with Lemon Chalet Cremes (which feature a design of Our Chalet in Switzerland), but they are actually not the same cookie.
Twenty years ago, the bagels in Kansas City were accurately described by one of my daughters as tasting like "round bread".... Could it be that outlander bagels have improved to the point of being something that people truly yearn for?
This charming winery, which saw its pinot noirs win gold medals at the London International Wine Challenge in 1999, 2000 and 2001, has a restaurant and gift shop and offers tours of its vineyard and wine tasting year round.
If you do tell this colleague you're not interested in them as a partner they may claim - unfairly - that that was never their intention in the first place, craftily extricating themselves from the area of conflict, leaving a sour taste all round.
But best of all, use whole foods and their naturally "salty" tastes to round out the flavours of a dish, like adding roasted carrot or chard stems to flavour hummus or velvet beet juice to make a salt-free bloody Mary mix.
But with a bottle of organic Spanish clementine juice in the refrigerator, clementine lovers can enjoy the taste year-round.
At Two James Spirits, pull up a stool at the round tasting bar, and try a Corktown flip (TJS bourbon, Detroit Beer Co Cacao stout, blackstrap molasses, an egg, and mole bitters).
It tasted rich and round and yet, somehow, leaner.
