Do You Say Something When The Food Tastes Terrible?

It depends on the context and situation

Ryan Fan
9 min readJan 2, 2024
Photo by Joseph Gonzalez on Unsplash

I’m a super easily pleased person. I genuinely don’t have a movie, book, or TV show that I didn’t like. I don’t have a food I don’t like (besides cucumbers), and I am not picky as an eater in the slightest. There have been plenty of times where pasta or rice with nothing added has been a snack. I can even count on one hand the people I’ve met I didn’t like and seen the positive side of.

Other people I’m around, however, do have opinions about food and tend not to be shy when voicing those opinions.

That’s what made the Pampered Chef party my wife and I held about a year and a half ago so interesting to me. Pampered Chef, unbeknownst to me at the time, is a seller of a variety of kitchen tools to make cooking easier. You can hold a Pampered Chef party where a consultant comes out, cooks food, and markets the items to a party, and there may be some fundraisers or rewards for the host and all who buy the items.

My wife and her family had done these parties before, so it seemed pretty cool to me. We had all of our closest friends in Baltimore come in for this party, and the consultant, John (not his real name), came in with his gear and cooking supplies. He showed us the ease with which certain pots, pans, and this…

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Ryan Fan

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