gloria.p wrote:
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>> In >, says...
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>> I am a picky eater. I came from
>> parents that are picky eaters. Once picky, always picky.
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> It's not genetic, you know, and with that attitude it will never
> get any better. I wouldn't brag about it if it were my shortcoming.
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> gloria p
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Wellllll....if we take it beyond the individual and specific to the
general.....Mankind is about the pickiest eater on the planet. At least
in the machinations, ritual, and down right whimsy it goes through to
acquire and prepare, let alone consume it's food with ever increasing
ritualism.
True, some life forms have a single form of nourishment that renders
them more exclusive than the human mammal, but that is less picky than
it is they way the life form is constructed, with no choice in the
matter. Even some Pandas and a few other mammals as well as other
species have very restricted diets. Especially compared to Mankind's,
which, it seems to me, will eat just about anything not actually harmful
to it and even then, arguments about sugar and coffee can be made with
as much vehemence as about alcohol.
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JL