Writer's Block: Acquired taste

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I don't even know it this counts as "weird", but here's two of my favorites:

1)  Tuna Sammich -- water-pack chunk-light tuna, drained and squeezed, with Miracle Whip on toasted wheat bread.  No fancy "sandwich goop" or chopped pickles or tartar sauce or celery, JUST the three things mentioned.  I'll never understand why people have to glop things on. 

2)  this constitutes a full meal and then some:  Two or three SteakUmms, fried or griddled, on wheat bread -- no sauces or dressings or cheese or anything else, TYVM -- a bowl of air-popped popcorn with or without salt, a couple of cubes of Medium Cheddar and some Kosher Dill Pickle spears.

The odd bits for both these are that they have to be just. that. .way.  Med cheddar, not mild or sharp or colby; MW, not mayo; chunk light, not the fancypants Albacore....the details :D

For some reason,

I remembered this just now:

At the factory -- where I worked for 19+ years, there was a probationary period for new hires.  within the first 45 days you could be let go for any reason or no reason.

One gal had been in a bad relationship and moved to the city to get away from the farm community her pending-ex still lived in.  She was so traumatized by the whole deal that the men on the crew could not speak directly to her without throwing her into hysterics 75% of the time.  All 5 in the direct line of authority were -- guess what? -- men.  The women could not mention in her hearing a sentence like "My husband drove me to work today" or "How's your boyfriend?  He recovering from that car wreck OK?" because she could not stand the idea of a husband and would flee to the bathroom and cry for an hour if the word was mentioned in front of her.  She actually requested that we censor our entire work-day to cushion her from the world.  She even asked HR to "talk to us" about "respecting her emotional disability" -- which may have worked better if she were willing to get therapy for it.

Guess who didn't make it to the end of the probationary period?