"Chatty Cathy" > wrote in message
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> Been thinking about picky eaters again....
>
> I have two children (many years apart). DS was the first-born - and when
> he was a "toddler" we had little or no access to seafood or shellfish,
> with the result that he never had much of either. To this day, he dislikes
> anything remotely "fishy". He will eat almost anything else, tho'. OTOH,
> our younger one (3 y/o) has been exposed to many kinds of food, including
> seafood/shellfish and she seems to like it all.
>
> I have noticed it with a quite a few of my friends - both with them and
> their children as well - they seem to like what they grew up with and are
> not all that keen to try anything that could be termed "strange food".
>
> Anybody else think that if children are not "exposed" to certain foods,
> say between the ages of 2 and 6 y/o, that they will never really develop
> a taste for it, or that it will "take some doing" to get them to try
> something "new" when they are adults?
> --
> Cheers
> Chatty Cathy - just curious about other people's experiences.

I grew up in a family where mom or dad would make the same meals on a
certain day of the week, week after week. None of it seafood either. It
did effect me until I was in my early 20's, but I got over it slowly. Now
I am always the first to try something new, and I will eat just about
anything other than fast food junk. I will go out of my way to try new
things, and always pick something I have never had when eating out. I love
to cook at home and either create something new or make dishes from around
the world. No ingrediant is too strange.

My sister, who is 1 year older than I, never grew our of our childhood food
habbits and has a very narrow range of food she likes.