"Becca" > wrote in message
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> George Shirley wrote:
>> Maybe she has hidden attributes other than just being bitchy. My youngest
>> child decided at age eight that he was going to be a picky eater. "I
>> don't like that, I can't eat that, That's nasty." Just some of his
>> comments. After being told he could eat what was on the table or go
>> hungry he changed his mind. He's 45 yo now and will eat about anything,
>> including snake, rabbit, whatever. You just gotta get them young, at age
>> 63 the woman obviously is set in a rut she will never climb out of.
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> Maybe her parents were bad cooks? I feel bad for him, having to deal with
> her limited variety of foods.
> If my children did not like something, I would tell them they were too
> young and this was "adult food"; when they grow up, they would like it.
> My older son will eat anything, the younger will eat almost anything, but
> he does not like meat with bones in it. Maybe that was my fault because I
> deboned their food. When the younger one was 12, I was cutting up his
> waffle, then I stopped myself. Hey, he is 12, he can cut up his own
> waffle. lol Oh yeah, he does not like mushrooms, either.
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> Becca



Allegedly she grew up on a farm in Nebraska. So I suppose she had to eat
all manner of things she didn't like, probably right down to her pet chicken
or prized pig. Who knows? I don't see Nebraska (sorry for any posters from
NE out there!) as being a hotbed of really tasty food. But to have such a
paranoia about "green specks" (aka herbs) in anything... yeesh. It was
difficult to dumb things down to exclude even parsley.

My parents did the same thing you describe, telling me what they were
serving was "adult food". That made me all the more eager to at least try
it, because the notion I wasn't old enough to eat it made it interesting.
Got me started loving artichokes and asparagus early on

Jill