Choices #72: Mustard

 

Hello my dear Steemians,

 

Today I wanted to take part in the challenge running by @patjewell if you got interested please visit this link:

https://steemit.com/hive-168072/@patjewell/contest-and-winners-choices-what-will-it-be-72

I decided to write a fiction story and hope you like it.

 

Mustard

 

Mustard is something that I learned when I was adult but of course, heard about mustard long ago. We all know that often we love with our eyes, that means if we see something and we do not like it then we do not want it. It is something that we have since our childhood. Can you remember colourful sweets always attract attention of children then one in boring cover, even though they are more delicious but it is not possible to convince a child, of course, until the child tries it.

When I saw first time the colour of mustard it was not yellow and it was brown like chocolate so I already did not like it. The second thing that often plays a great role when we try something is a smell, mustard has specific spicy smell when I smelled it first time I thought “definitely nothing for me” and that was me and Mustard relationship for many years. I even did not want to try it, why should I if I do not like its appearance and its smell.

Later on when I met my hubby and we were visiting some of his relatives for grill evening Mustard was always on table I was surprised to see how many people enjoyed it and could not trust my eyes, still that time it did not make me curious and I did not try it until one very moment.

Usually we love watching documentary movies and we love places that are not far from our home country Germany and the nearest neighbour country is the Netherlands. When my hubby was young he spent majority of his time there with parents and school in summer on a little tourist island called Ameland therefore, it was also place that we often watched documentary.

One day it was a documentary about Ameland and it is not only about the nature, people and what you can do there but also they showed places where the local people produced their local products and how they do them. What caught them my attention when they were talking about producing Mustard according their own recipe and real handmade. There was a journalist who made the documentary and also who tasted the products.

 

Mill "De Verwachting"

 

What I found astonishing that they managed to do different flavours and also it was not like past it was a bit rough. When the journalist tasted it he was absolutely amazed and said that this kind of Mustard he never tasted before. That was a signal for us, so next time when we visited the island Ameland we went to the Windmill that was converted into cheese and mustard shop.

We bought two types, one is standard without anything and another with cranberries. I was very pessimistic before trying it. But when I tasted first time Mustard with cranberry flavour I feel in love with it, because the bitter spice taste of mustard was not too strong and it was mild. That was perfect! The one classic one was also better than what we usually buy from shop it was still less chemical taste but more natural. I am still not very fan of Mustard but I love Mustard with cranberry flavour. We can see that our taste can also be changed despite of few years since our first experience.

 

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