You could talk about the previous times you had trouble making conversation
Then again I don't think I would take my own advice
In general of course it all depends who you're talking to
I'm not a picky eater, for me to hate a certain food mostly pertains to how it's prepared. Though I'm at that point in life where I ignore many types of candy, soda, things like that.
But anyway-
I guess I wasn't necessarily expecting an event for Chinese New Year but no Valentine's event would be surprising. My natural assumption would be for them to introduce breeding, though I'm still kinda holdin out for another XP event, though to have one again anytime soon seems unlikely.