Thanks for this, Don! You're a bit older than me, but your experiences with cream corn and canned green beans except during the summer match my own. Eggplant? I was well into my 20s before I tasted such an "exotic" dish, and when I moved to NYC and saw one in a grocery store for the first time, I had no idea what I was looking at.

Today, the thought of fried eggplant with a garden-fresh salad makes me hungry.

I join Molly thinking the eggplant emoji is howlingly funny!