In article >,
"jmcquown" > wrote:

> > 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.
> >
> >
> > Becca
>
>
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> 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

Mm. My number one favorite veggie is Asparagus, and second in line is
Artichoke. :-)

I'm about due for an Artichoke fix. I had Asparagus over the weekend
since it was on sale.
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