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Mealtimes for children were quite different just a few decades ago. Over the past few months, I’ve spoken casually and in formal interviews with dozens of people about food and childhood. As a general rule, people who grew up in North America and are now over the age of 30 recall that when they were children, kids ate what the adults ate. Families usually dined together at the table. There might have been foods you didn’t like; depending on the rules of the house you might have been expected to try them or even finish them. Or you might have been free not to, as long as there weren’t too many foods you were refusing. Either way, it wouldn’t have occurred to you that an adult was going jump up from the table to prepare you something precisely to your liking. And if you didn’t eat, you might have to wait quite a while for the next opportunity: Studies show that North American kids snack more often and consume more calories than they did in the 1970s.

Advocates of healthy and diverse diets for children often find inspiration in France, a country where the food landscape for children retains a pre-1990s quaintness, and where the concept of a picky eater almost doesn’t exist. French parents and teachers explicitly talk about the food education that children require in order to become mature eaters. They receive training that gently pries open the natural fussiness that most small children exhibit to some degree, opening their little minds and palates to a world of flavour.

“At the core of the French approach is the belief that you teach your kids to eat just as you can teach them to read,” says Karen Le Billon, author of the 2012 book French Kids Eat Everything. “You start young, it takes time, and some kids take more time than others. And unless there are underlying medical issues, all kids can get there.” An Anglo-Canadian university professor, Le Billon moved to France for a year in 2008 with her French husband and two young, Vancouver-raised daughters — whose starch-loving, snack-dependent, picky Canadian ways quickly raised the ire of her in-laws and others they met in a little village in Brittany.

Drunkboxer posted:

I think there should be a law forcing people who only eat boneless "chicken wings" to refer to them as chicky nuggets, because that's what they are

Xaris posted:

aka the republican diet.

i've noticed that most picky eaters who only eat poo poo like hot dogs, corn, and bland applebee type stuff tend to be libertarian/conservatives and people who'll eat anything and love vegetables tend to be liberal

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Why is it always chicken tenders that seem to be the only food these people can eat?

Corny Cornflake posted:

On that note If you love sour cream drink plain kefir- the taste is really close and is supposedly good for you.

Corny Cornflake posted:

I think that pesto and truffles taste like licking the bottom of a used garbage bag.

On that note If you love sour cream drink plain kefir- the taste is really close and is supposedly good for you.

a hole-y ghost posted:

Its good but I'm pretty sure the health thing is just one of those things where people say an unfamiliar food is really good for you and you don't know any better, like mangosteen juice or matcha tea.

Drunkboxer posted:

just be a man and eat the sour cream

Corny Cornflake posted:

I think that pesto and truffles taste like licking the bottom of a used garbage bag.

a hole-y ghost posted:

Out of pesto, truffles, and the bottom of a used garbage bag, I've only tasted pesto and I like it. What I wonder is this: When did you taste the bottom of a used garbage bag?

Drunkboxer posted:

I guess he could have gotten the trash bag outside a italian restaurant.

a hole-y ghost posted:

Its good but I'm pretty sure the health thing is just one of those things where people say an unfamiliar food is really good for you and you don't know any better, like mangosteen juice or matcha tea.

a hole-y ghost posted:

Out of pesto, truffles, and the bottom of a used garbage bag, I've only tasted pesto and I like it. What I wonder is this: When did you taste the bottom of a used garbage bag?

Corny Cornflake posted:

I think that pesto and truffles taste like licking the bottom of a used garbage bag.

On that note If you love sour cream drink plain kefir- the taste is really close and is supposedly good for you.

Feminition posted:

i honestly just don't understand how people can go "no! i'll never like it!" and refuse to eat stuff other than the first time or two they try it

like man, it's almost as if gaining a palate for something is a process of you continuously trying to eat it

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I'm 33. I have normal blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight. I'm pretty sure there's no scientific proof saying that you need vegetables in order to be healthy. There are no vitamins or nutrients in vegetables that you can't get in other foods and/or pills.

Like I said, I'm a supertaster, which is an actual thing. One big thing with supertasters is that we can detect bitterness where normal people can't. Like, some people will say vodka tastes like nothing at all. Others will say it tastes only mildly bitter. To a supertaster, vodka is unbearably, extremely bitter. I'll throw up instantly if there is vodka in my mouth. This is the problem with most vegetables- they're VERY bitter to me. You can say that peas and carrots taste totally different, and they do, but they both have a VERY strong bitter taste to me that will make me instantly vomit. I'm not against trying different things- I've tried tons of different vegetables and they're pretty much all disgusting, with the exception of potatoes, onions, and tomatoes (well I guess tomatoes are technically a fruit but whatever.)

Like I said, I also can't eat most fruits because almost all fruits are sweet, and the taste- or even smell- of sweetness also makes me vomit. People can sit there and talk about how easy it is to develop an acquired taste, but they don't understand what's it's like when the large majority of food makes you literally, physically gag and throw up, sometimes just from the smell of it, let alone the taste. If I was trapped on a desert island and was starving, I'm pretty sure I still wouldn't be able to eat a vegetable, I would just gag and throw it up as soon as it was in my mouth.

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This is a list of pretty much any meal I eat ever:

- Steak and a baked potato with cheese and sour cream
- cheeseburger with ONLY ketchup and mayo and potato chips
- broiled fish (either whitefish or tilapia, no other kind) and clam chowder
- fried chicken and jojos with ranch dressing
- kung pao chicken and steamed white rice
- beef and cheese burrito and tortilla chips and salsa
- spicy chicken sandwich with cheese and mayo on it and potato chips
- hamburger helper (classic) and potato chips
- tuna helper (classic) and potato chips
- buffalo wings and mozzarella sticks with marinara sauce
- cheese ravioli with marinara sauce and garlic bread

And yeah that is pretty much all I eat ever at any time. It's not even like it's fun or anything. I've been eating the same stuff for so many years that I'm really, really sick of it, but I literally cannot stomach eating anything else, and believe me I have tried.

d0s posted:

pentyne posted:

FYI you guys might be triggering other goons, so tread lightly

pentyne posted:

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- Steak and a baked potato with cheese and sour cream
- cheeseburger with ONLY ketchup and mayo and potato chips
- broiled fish (either whitefish or tilapia, no other kind) and clam chowder
- fried chicken and jojos with ranch dressing
- kung pao chicken and steamed white rice
- beef and cheese burrito and tortilla chips and salsa
- spicy chicken sandwich with cheese and mayo on it and potato chips
- hamburger helper (classic) and potato chips
- tuna helper (classic) and potato chips
- buffalo wings and mozzarella sticks with marinara sauce
- cheese ravioli with marinara sauce and garlic bread

a hole-y ghost posted:

I like how specific these meals are. This guy knows what he wants.

Xaris posted:

holy poo poo

pentyne posted:

FYI you guys might be triggering other goons, so tread lightly

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3456453&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2

DeseretRain posted:

Is this really a thing? People forcing themselves to eat food they hate just because they are adults and feel that "adults should eat foods they hate"? Because honestly that seems pretty ridiculous to me. If you hate carrots, why eat them? Why not just get the vitamins you could get from carrots in the form of a pill? Seriously I just find it exceptionally weird that there are people who think that eating certain foods has anything at all to do with being "an adult."

Orkin Mang posted:

are there supertasters and picky eaters out there who only eat vegetables and seafood, or do the symptoms of this illness always consist in being only able to eat fried chicken potatoes and sweet/creamy sauces and soft drink?

pentyne posted:

they were raised as special snowflakes and just threw temper tantrums into their teens until their parents just gave up and let them eat chicken nugs, pizza, and hot pockets. I even met a guy who would refuse to eat anything that wasn't prepackaged in sealed bags (like fruit snacks, granola bars, bags of chips)

pentyne posted:

FYI you guys might be triggering other goons, so tread lightly

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3456453&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=2

Professor Shark posted:

I made a mental list of what I predicted this guy would "be able" to eat before reading the second post, he had a broader range than I thought, but the basics were all there.

He has a mental disorder.

Nillerz posted:

my wife is from Japan. she gave me permission to use the term "jappo", and says that it's not racist and those who think it is are retards.

Professor Shark posted:

I made a mental list of what I predicted this guy would "be able" to eat before reading the second post, he had a broader range than I thought, but the basics were all there.

He has a mental disorder.

Orkin Mang posted:

are there supertasters and picky eaters out there who only eat vegetables and seafood, or do the symptoms of this illness always consist in being only able to eat fried chicken potatoes and sweet/creamy sauces and soft drink? whoever pointed out that picky eaters only eat whats on kids menus got it right and pinpointed the problem--kids bitching for the fatty sugar rush foods and their parents caving in and getting them for them all the time.