On Mon, 05 Nov 2018 17:53:00 GMT, Pamela >
wrote:

>On 15:20 5 Nov 2018, Gary > wrote in
:
>
>> Sorry I jumped on you for that but calling anything "children's food"
>> seems to be a derogatory term here.
>
>Saying "children's food" is not meant to be derogatory. Children
>are still evolving their sense of taste and prefer different food to
>when adults. Children are very sensitive to bitter flavours
>(evolutionists say it is to avoid poisons which are frequently
>bitter)and they develop a taste for this later. Children prefer
>different food from adults.
>
>Of course adults can eat jello, cotton candy, gummy Haribos, fish
>fingers, syrupy pancakes and so on but their primary purpose is
>thestrong appeal to children. I can eat this food as well as anyone and
>I wouldn't find it terrible but it has little appeal. On the other hand
>my grandkids go crazy for such things.

I suddenly have this mental image of you cooking for a table full of
grandkids and Gary.