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He never developed a taste for Dominos Pizza.

He did not like things that weren't green.

Nor did he ever fully embrace hybrid or electric cars.

High places trigger my Verdi go.

It can be verified - via careful academic (certified and licensed) research - that he did not like the compositions of Olivier Messiaen.

Further, he thought absolutely nothing of Debussy's La mer.

He (surely...??) hated Charles Gounod, because Gounod hated the cimbasso and loved the ophicleide.

He didn't like melons, couldn't stand even their smell

Might you have that confused with “Milan“?
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sidebar topic: food 120 - 180 years ago
I suspect that - were it possible for us to time travel back to those times, a considerable percentage of foods served and consumed would taste and smell horrible to us, due to freshness/spoilage issues.

gionvil wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:08 am He didn't like melons, couldn't stand even their smell

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:39 am Might you have that confused with “Milan“?

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sidebar topic: food 120 - 180 years ago
I suspect that - were it possible for us to time travel back to those times, a considerable percentage of foods served and consumed would taste and smell horrible to us, due to freshness/spoilage issues.

gionvil wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:08 am He didn't like melons, couldn't stand even their smell

food topic: I agree, if you just think how meat ( specially poultry) was eaten when turning purple..
This is the menu of the Maestro's last supper before passing away:

I believe that - from the distant past, and odor-related - that there must be a direct correlation between the words, "fowl" and "foul".

Also (previous to the invention of "snacks" and "type 2 diabetes epidemics") I have to believe that people were actually HUNGRY - when they ate meals, and that their hunger assisted in overcoming the stench of spoiling/rotting food.

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SIDEBAR:

Speaking of "advancements in food preservation and food preparation"...
I've actually put some thought into "WHEN would have been the best time (in America) to have been born?"
...and I came up with "around 1936":

- Such a person would be too young (ie. "no point of reference") to have any inkling of a "depression".
- The Spanish flu pandemic had long passed.
- By military draft age, WWII and Korea would be over-and-done, and they would later be too old for Vietnam.
- They would live through amazing technological (sure, including food preservation/preparation improvements) and medical advancements.
- Right around the time that everything really/finally turned to hopeless/beyond-redeemable sh!t (and America came to an abrupt end), they would be 80 years old and (if lucky) they would croak.

My cousin is named Joseph Green. I know what he likes, but next time I am in TX I will ask him which Italian musical things he does not like.

Verdi did not care much for Frito Pie.

His loss, and more for me.

He may have liked Oktoberfest (aka “Festa di Ottobre”) but I’m certain that he did not like The Oktoberfest Thread.

points of order:
[1] I have not seen this on The Knower Of All Things And Where One Is Told What To Think About All Things (ie. wiki).
…so is your assertion Verdifiable?

[2] If the Frito Bandito was racist, which race did the Frito Bandito not like? …KY Derby…?? …Indy 500…??

the elephant wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 5:06 pm Verdi did not care much for Frito Pie.

His loss, and more for me.

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He did not like the mullets or the big hair bands of the '80's, because from his perspective, they weren't doing it right:

Based on the history of both Italy and the United States - since that time period, the forced unification of both of these seems (either Italy’s 29, or the USA’s 33) to have proved to have been a damned bad idea.

tofu wrote: ↑Sun Oct 10, 2021 9:55 pm Verdi did not like the feudal fiefdoms (I think there were 29 of them) that had ruled over individual parts of Italy for centuries.
He worked for the unification of Italy. Most people don't realize that the nation state of Italy is a relatively modern creation which happened in 1861. Verdi's sympathy for the unification movement can be seen in his early opera's. This next bit is sure to forever endure Verdi to Bloke. Verdi was briefly an elected politician -which is interesting as he was an intensely private guy.

Unification is overrated!!

Adjustable gap receivers
Silver and lacquered cimbasso. (He did pefer cimbasso, but only in raw brass because it sounds more professional. He could tell the difference.)
Lap sousaphones
Blatt weasels
CC tubas
Piston valves
Arnold Jacob's York #2
Monette mouthpieces
Elephant rooms (although I am quite sure he would thoroughly enjoy the Elephant's Frankentuba posts)
Spelunking
Vibraphone
Wankel rotary engines
Missouri

I hate Wankel's rotary engines, too. And Missouri? Well, we won't talk about how I feel about Missouri in this forum…