"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
...
> 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.
>
>
>

Yeah...hot wings! Mine too, when he was little. What's with kids? I took
mine to a restaurant here that's famous for wings with names like hot,
catatonic, and wise guy specials (they give you a glass of milk with those
whether you ask for it or not). The friend with us ordered the latter, and
my son tried one, then another, and then his burger arrived and he quit the
wings. But, he liked them. No comment at all the next day about burning
exhaust issues.