Doug Kanter wrote:

> My son was the opposite, sort of. He'd eat ugly food just to get a rise out
> of his mother, mostly. The first time I ordered mussels in a restaurant, she
> did her usual "Yucky" routine. That was my son's cue to try a mussel, which
> he'd never had before (age 4-ish). He then asked if he could have them all.
> I ordered more. :-)

My son was like that too. He tried my calamari just so that he would tell his
friends he had eaten something disgusting. Once he tried it he realized how good
it was. He had always been easy to please. The only thing I can think of that
he absolutely refused to try was oxtails. Even when we was very young he was
easy to please. He especially liked fish, and few times when he balked at some
sort of flesh we told him it was fish and he ate it up. I had him at a friend's
bar before he was two and people were amazed that he was eating Buffalo wings,
hot, not mild.

One thing he did not like when he was young was steak. A friend suggested
cutting it into very thin strips. That turned out to be much easier for him to
chew.