Puddings - Jello Instant Pudding

[Carol]

Carol:
>  (Never had coffee, Magpie? Never even been tempted by the smell? I
can't imagine morning without coffee.)
<snip>
> 
> Magpie:
> Nope, never even had a sip. Probably because I'm not tempted by the 
> smell at all. Though now it's almost like a thing--it's so weird I 
> haven't tried it would almost be a shame to try it now. <snip>

Carol responds:

Come on. Where's your sense of adventure? You wouldn't say, I haven't
read such and such a book and it would be a shame to read it now,
would you?

The funny thing is, when I've tried a food or drink or book or movie
expecting to like it, I've often been disappointed. (Caviar, a rare
treat? It tastes like fish bait! Real butter as opposed to margarine
was a major disappointment when I was about nine--horrible, sour stuff
instead of mildly pleasant and "buttery" like margarine.) I've had the
opposite experience with books (SS/PS, for one) and movies and at
least a few times with food (my first taste of yogurt--flavored, of
course, being one, cheesecake being another). Don't you remember
taking a first sip of wine, for example? (Or beer, which is a taste I
never acquired, but at least I used drink it, slowly, on social
occasions, back when I was still married.)

If you like milk and sugar in your hot drinks, try a hot latte or
capuccino. Just a step from there to coffee with cream and sugar. (Not
instant or decaf, though. Bleah. And, of course, you'd probably hate
espresso, which even coffee lovers often find too strong.) If you try
coffee, I'll try hot tea with milk even though the idea strikes me as
revolting. You never know what you like it till you try it--dangerous
drugs and so forth excepted, of course. (And parachuting and bungee
jumping, but I'm talking about things that aren't dangerous, food and
drink in particular.)

Carol, just encouraging you to try what you might like and hoping she
doesn't sound pushy