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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: TootsNYC Date: October 9, 2020, 3:57 pm
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[quote author=gramma dishes link=topic=1885.msg58729#msg58729
date=1602259208]
[quote author=Hmmm link=topic=1885.msg58721#msg58721
date=1602257463]
Ha. That reminded me of a girl scout mother who told my mom I
was "difficult" because I never wanted one of the jello pudding
snacks (back then they were in cans) that were supposed to be
our snack at the meetings. I didn't ask for anything else but
she claimed it made the other girls uncomfortable to eat in
front of me. No it didn't. They usually fought over who got
mine.
[/quote]
Did it never occur to your scout leader that perhaps a little
variety in snacks might not only be possible but desirable?
[/quote]
I did the snacks for a youth group thing at my church. One kid
wouldn't eat anything, so I worked to try to find something that
he WOULD eat, to be sure I had it.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: vintagegal Date: October 10, 2020, 6:12 am
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yep, it's texture with me. I do love egg salad now, but still
hate cream of wheat and grits (they taste the same to me). And
lima beans, also the texture.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: wonderfullyanonymous Date: October 10, 2020, 9:24 am
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My sister was with my parents visiting my dad's cousin. She
would have been late teens, early twenties. Cousin made wild
rice for dinner, my sister thought it was barley and took a good
sized serving. She doesn't like wild rice, and had to choke it
down because she took it.
I can't eat creamed corn, it makes me gag.
My brother art decoed the dining table when my dad made him eat
peas.
My kids are all picky eaters. When the middle was 2 or 3, I had
made beets for dinner. I asked him if he wanted to try it. He
said yes, and was about to take a bite, when his sister, who was
4 yes older, exclaims, "EWWWWWWW, you're going to eat that?"
Guess who had to eat the biggest slice of beet I could find!
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: VorFemme Date: October 10, 2020, 6:48 pm
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[quote author=Dazi link=topic=1885.msg58661#msg58661
date=1602174392]
[quote author=Luci link=topic=1885.msg58657#msg58657
date=1602172706]
I used to host family dinners for about 35-40 people twice a
year. One was the turkey dinner and the other a grilled picnic
luncheon. A niece always asked for a peanut butter sandwich and
my SIL let her get away with it, so I just went along with it.
My saying, "No" wouldn’t have done any good and just stir things
up. Years later, she apologized to me about that and thanked me
for complying.
Our son was about six and and I told him if didn’t eat 10 peas
he couldn’t leave the table. He sat at the table until bedtime.
He is now a very opinionated and stubborn 50 year old. I know
that is not the way to get a child to eat now according to
experts.
[/quote]
I loathed peas as a child. It actually turned out that I'm
allergic to them.
[/quote]
I refused to touch anything with pickles in it - family recipes
three generations old, I could not and would not touch. Turns
out that all of them were made with dill pickles. In my
fifites, I tried a yogurt sauce at a Greek restaurant and
started itching...the only ingredient that I hadn't eaten on a
regular basis? Dill...fresh dill. I always thought that it
smelled nice (in Grandma's garden) but never felt the slightest
inclination to eat the stuff...I feel the same way about
cilantro....which tastes "soapy" to me...
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: Dazi Date: October 10, 2020, 7:31 pm
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VorFemme, I absolutely adore cilantro. It's tarragon that taste
soapy to me!
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: nuku Date: October 12, 2020, 1:41 pm
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[quote author=Rose Red link=topic=1885.msg58731#msg58731
date=1602260391]
[quote author=Lilipons link=topic=1885.msg58720#msg58720
date=1602257127]
There was also the meal on a vacation trip when I had an
audience for my appetizer. I was five and kneeling on a stack
of telephone books while eating a shrimp cocktail with a fork in
my fist. I’m told that members of the waitstaff stood around
the table to observe this phenomenon.
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In the old board, a poster wrote about a similar experience
except it was oysters. The waiters or other customers brought
her another plate because they were so impressed.
Stories like this always amuse me. I didn't grow up in the US
and seafood, including oysters, clams, squid, and snails were a
treat to us as children. Funny how I don't eat them now as an
adult.
[/quote]
I am in the US & assume that kids love shrimp cocktail. Maybe
it's based on where you grew up? (Chicago area for me. We
generally got very good, fresh seafood.)
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: NFPwife Date: October 12, 2020, 1:45 pm
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[quote author=VorFemme link=topic=1885.msg58792#msg58792
date=1602373706]
[quote author=Dazi link=topic=1885.msg58661#msg58661
date=1602174392]
[quote author=Luci link=topic=1885.msg58657#msg58657
date=1602172706]
I used to host family dinners for about 35-40 people twice a
year. One was the turkey dinner and the other a grilled picnic
luncheon. A niece always asked for a peanut butter sandwich and
my SIL let her get away with it, so I just went along with it.
My saying, "No" wouldn’t have done any good and just stir things
up. Years later, she apologized to me about that and thanked me
for complying.
Our son was about six and and I told him if didn’t eat 10 peas
he couldn’t leave the table. He sat at the table until bedtime.
He is now a very opinionated and stubborn 50 year old. I know
that is not the way to get a child to eat now according to
experts.
[/quote]
I loathed peas as a child. It actually turned out that I'm
allergic to them.
[/quote]
I refused to touch anything with pickles in it - family recipes
three generations old, I could not and would not touch. Turns
out that all of them were made with dill pickles. In my
fifites, I tried a yogurt sauce at a Greek restaurant and
started itching...the only ingredient that I hadn't eaten on a
regular basis? Dill...fresh dill. I always thought that it
smelled nice (in Grandma's garden) but never felt the slightest
inclination to eat the stuff...I feel the same way about
cilantro....which tastes "soapy" to me...
[/quote]
I've long held that there's a fine line between picky and
allergic. I think some people are repelled / repulsed by a food
as a measure of self-protection.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: nuku Date: October 12, 2020, 1:57 pm
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I was pegged as a picky eater as a kid, but I sincerely did not
like certain foods. Guess who found out she's a super-taster a
few years ago?
I still hate bell peppers, celery (might be an allergy), &
summer squash. But I will take all the radishes, winter squash,
seaweed, & chilies the other picky eaters leave on the table.
And you can have all the ranch. I ate my salads dry until fruit
or balsamic vinaigrette was common in restaurants. 😁
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: STiG Date: October 12, 2020, 8:13 pm
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I've avoided walnuts most of my life. I recently did some
research on companion allergies because I've started having a
lot of IBS reactions with some foods. Turns out, walnuts is on
the list of foods to potentially avoid if you are allergic to
latex. My latex allergy is just a contact allergy so it totally
makes sense that I get an IBS reaction to some of the foods on
that list. Mango, avocado, pineapple, strawberries, a few
others. I'm OK with a little but if I eat a lot, I end up
reacting.
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Re: S/O - Remembering old threads - picky eaters
By: Aleko Date: October 13, 2020, 2:29 am
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[quote]I am in the US & assume that kids love shrimp
cocktail.[/quote]
I’m in the UK and would assume the same, except that it’s called
prawn cocktail over here. Shrimps, for us, are the really tiny
little-fingernail-sized things. The “shrimp tea” of shrimps and
brown bread and butter was a traditional family treat in the
East End of London and all around the Thames estuary, and when
families go to the seaside, so is a sandwich filled with locally
caught shrimps. Of course you’ll always find an individual child
who doesn’t like them, but that’s just a quirk. To surprise
restaurant staff with their sophisticated adult seafood tastes
in the UK, a kid would need to be scoffing octopus, raw oysters,
or something like that.
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