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S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: WorkingMum Date: October 7, 2020, 5:03 am
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So I've been looking through the above mentioned and then got
lost in the old eHell threads on webarchive. I found this one :
HTML https://web.archive.org/web/20150120081131/http://www.etiquettehell.com/smf/index.php?topic=135683.0
It prompted me to think about when I was a child (11 years old).
I had a friend who asked me to spend the weekend with her. I
loved this friend and my parents deemed her parents acceptable.
I had a pretty normal lower class upbringing which did not
include any fancy foods or anything not typically available at
the discount grocery store. They had a small property and some
livestock and mostly lived off their land.
The only milk they had in their house was goat milk from their
stock (goat milk at that time as pretty much unheard of - this
was in the 1980's, and no-one told me it wasn't normal cows
milk). That's what i got offered with my cereal for breakfast. I
took a mouthful and tried very hard not to spit it out, and said
"I don't like that".
For years, her parents reminded me of that day and i found it
very embarrassing. I have made sure to teach my daughter to say
that something "isn't to her taste" if she doesn't like it. I
wish my parents had given me the tools to deal with situations
like this.
Does anyone else have any stories how you have dealt with food
you didn't like/couldn't stomach?
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: SureJan Date: October 7, 2020, 8:35 am
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When I was very young (maybe 7) I was invited to eat dinner at a
friend's house for the first time. They were planning on having
chicken for dinner and asked if I preferred white meat or dark
meat - I didn't know what that meant and was to embarrassed to
ask so I just said "dark meat". When it came time to eat the
chicken was on the blackened/burnt side - I ate it because
that's what they were serving but for YEARS afterwards I thought
"dark meat" chicken meant that it was blackened [emoji23] and I
couldn't understand why anyone would do that on purpose.
On the other side of the coin, my childhood best friend's mom
made 100% the best boxed macaroni and cheese in the universe. I
later found out that her "secret ingredient" was to add 2 slices
of American cheese to make it extra creamy. BUT the real
difference was that she followed the recipe and used 2% milk
plus a little butter while my own mom used no-fat milk and
skipped the butter all together!
(In this context American cheese was a very mild and melty
cheese, slightly better quality than the individual slices
wrapped in plastic)
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: shadowfox79 Date: October 7, 2020, 8:42 am
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I can remember my friend's mother promising us real roast
potatoes with dinner, which I liked the sound of since my mum
made fantastic roast potatoes, so I was expecting the same.
Turned out her idea of roast potatoes was throwing boiled
potatoes into the chip pan. They tasted terrible.
Fortunately for me my parents had drilled it into me that I was
to eat everything and pretend I liked it, so I think I convinced
her. It did give me a new appreciation of my mum's cooking
anyway.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: BeagleMommy Date: October 7, 2020, 8:43 am
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My father's boss had my family to their home for dinner one
evening. Boss's wife made a beef roast. They were originally
from New England and, according to them, ate beef the way all
New Englanders do...rare.
I have never been able to stomach rare beef. Even beef cooked
to medium makes me nauseous. I have to eat it medium well.
I asked to have the two end pieces of the roast because I knew
they would be more cooked.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: shadowfox79 Date: October 7, 2020, 8:48 am
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[quote author=BeagleMommy link=topic=1885.msg58562#msg58562
date=1602078219]
My father's boss had my family to their home for dinner one
evening. Boss's wife made a beef roast. They were originally
from New England and, according to them, ate beef the way all
New Englanders do...rare.
I have never been able to stomach rare beef. Even beef cooked
to medium makes me nauseous. I have to eat it medium well.
I asked to have the two end pieces of the roast because I knew
they would be more cooked.
[/quote]
That's how we used to do it when my dad made roast beef and DH
was there. DH likes his beef well done, Dad liked his blue, so
the end pieces were the best bet.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: Amara Date: October 7, 2020, 1:07 pm
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I have two from different points in my life. The first was as a
child in the fifties and sixties when my mom, who had been
taught to boil vegetables to death, made spinach. Ever seen
boiled-to-death spinach with those long trailing stems? Yeah, it
doesn't get any better when it gets cold and that's how it would
always end up because I had to stay at the table until I ate
it--which I never did. I would stay there for hours when it was
time to go to bed. And o this day I cannot see or be around any
cooked spinach, or any other cooked leafy green, without
automatically feeling my stomach begin to heave. (Better have a
bathroom nearby because I will need it very soon.) I can't even
eat it if it is hidden by, say, blending it into a smooth soup
or smoothie with fruit. I can eat it if it is only the leaf, not
the stem, raw in a salad but it better have other leafy greens
with it.
Second, on a trip to Tahiti I was invited to a real luau, not
one for tourists. Poi was served. I tried it and my automatic
reaction was a face that showed how truly awful I thought it
tasted (and probably an accompanying gag. I did swallow that bit
but I am sorry to say I also probably insulted our hosts. I
didn't mean to but, really, that stuff is vile, truly an
acquired taste, likely acquired only by growing up eating it.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: sandisadie Date: October 7, 2020, 2:47 pm
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As a child growing up in the 1940 and 50's we always had to stay
at the table until we ate all on our plate. That meant a
serving of everything that was for supper. We had a huge veggie
garden and my Mother always planted yellow crookneck squash and
white pattypan squash. She would chop these up and cook them
until they were mostly mush. I hated that and would gag
whenever I had to eat it. So one meal I was trying to choke
down this stuff and vomited it back into my plate. I didn't do
that on purpose but my stomach just wouldn't keep it down that
time. Never had to try to eat that again!! To this day I don't
like any kind of squash, but will eat some of it if it is almost
raw. I never buy it and don't prepare it myself.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: STiG Date: October 7, 2020, 4:16 pm
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I grew up with 'No thank you' helpings. A tablespoon sized
serving of whatever I said I didn't like, three times. After
that, if I still didn't like it, I didn't have to eat it. I
wouldn't get extra helpings of something else, though, unless
there was extra, which for a few lean years, there wasn't. So
if I was out at someone's home and it was serve yourself, I'd
take a small serving of whatever and manage to choke it down,
hopefully without showing it wasn't something I liked.
I remember when we were in the middle of moving our house (the
actual house, not just contents), a neighbour offered to take me
to her house for dinner. She served baked beans, which I didn't
like. But that's what there was and I ate them. Mom asked me
later what I had for dinner and when I told her, she asked me
what I'd done. 'I ate them'. She was very happy with me. ;D
Not a picky eater story but we showed a friend of mine something
that probably horrified her proper English parents. During the
lean years, Mom would serve a roast and it was either very small
or she would be saving the rest for the next night or for
sandwiches. So if you were still hungry, you tossed a piece of
bread on your plate and poured gravy on it. One night, my
friend was over and my brother grabbed a piece of bread. She
was looking around the stuff in the middle of the table to see
what he was doing and just had to try it. I'm sure she showed
her sisters and horrified her parents. LOL
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: chigger Date: October 7, 2020, 5:31 pm
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[quote author=sandisadie link=topic=1885.msg58583#msg58583
date=1602100036]
As a child growing up in the 1940 and 50's we always had to stay
at the table until we ate all on our plate. That meant a
serving of everything that was for supper. We had a huge veggie
garden and my Mother always planted yellow crookneck squash and
white pattypan squash. She would chop these up and cook them
until they were mostly mush. I hated that and would gag
whenever I had to eat it. So one meal I was trying to choke
down this stuff and vomited it back into my plate. I didn't do
that on purpose but my stomach just wouldn't keep it down that
time. Never had to try to eat that again!! To this day I don't
like any kind of squash, but will eat some of it if it is almost
raw. I never buy it and don't prepare it myself.
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When I was a small child, I hated marinara sauce, so at home, I
had pasta with butter and cheese. My father passed away
suddenly when I was five years old. My brothers and I were sent
to a neighbors house while arrangements were being made. Of
course this nice woman made spaghetti with marinara, and I
vomited on her plate. She was so shocked, and I remember her
saying "Do you do that on your plates at home?". I was so
ashamed, but I was taught to eat what was on my plate, and I
tried to, but could not keep it down.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: malfoyfan13 Date: October 7, 2020, 5:52 pm
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My son used to say "I'm full" when he was offered something he
didn't like. He was a very picky eater as a child. We'd ask
him to try things and sometimes he would but mostly not. He
didn't eat a hamburger until he was 19 (didn't like ground beef
for some reason) and that was only because he was very hungry
and we were at a relative's house so he had to eat what they
had. He loved burgers after that but he still won't eat
meatloaf.
The Marine Corps apparently cured his picky eating forever; he
now seems to eat pretty much everything, even mushrooms which he
would never eat as a child. I noticed after he returned from
service that his eating was pretty eclectic. Luckily his
daughter (age 3) is not overly picky and will try most things,
even if she ends up not liking them.
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