Were you a picky eater?

Were you a picky eater?

I sure was. Beginning at 2-yo.

Grew up mostly on bread and butter and milk.

You?

Andy
Tallest of all known generations.

Andy wrote:

> Were you a picky eater?
>
> I sure was. Beginning at 2-yo.
>
> Grew up mostly on bread and butter and milk.
>
> You?

I have always been a "sewer". In Italy, when someone eats everything or
almost everything (my only kryptonite are cumin and fennel-seeds) we call
him a "sewer".
BTW - I tasted my first red-hot-pepper salami at 11, my father was trying to
make a joke, but... I started asking for more and ended up eating a good
third of that salami. I still remember that day, and my father's face. But
it must be a family thing: some years before that, a coworker of my father
tried the same joke on him and he simply said "Very good! Can I have more?"
LOL
--
Vilco
Mai guardare Trailer park Boys senza
qualcosa da bere a portata di mano

"ViLco" <ViLco@ViLco.invalid> wrote in
news:hdgt8u$1fl$1@news.eternal-september.org:

> I have always been a "sewer". In Italy, when someone eats everything
> or almost everything (my only kryptonite are cumin and fennel-seeds)
> we call him a "sewer".


ViLco,

For most of my life I can remember hearing over and over and over, "how do
you you don't like it if you don't try it?"

I was obviously a visual eater.

Best,

Andy

Let me rephrase that...

> "how do you you don't like it if you don't try it?"

"how do you know you don't like it if you don't try it?"

Andy

On Nov 12, 5:27*am, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
> Were you a picky eater?
>
> I sure was. Beginning at 2-yo.
>
> Grew up mostly on bread and butter and milk.

Macaroni with margarine, salt, and pepper. It made
me the woman I am today.

I lost about 15 pounds this year, so my BMI has edged
under 40. Hooray! I'm no longer morbidly obese!

We'll see how that lasts through the holiday season.

When I left for college, though, I was paranoid about
being thought a rube, so I started eating what
everyone else ate. I have relatively few food dislikes
these days. Blue cheese is probably the most
bothersome. "Could I have the gorgonzola salad
without the gorgonzola, please?" (It's the house salad
at a place where I eat lunch every month or two.)

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy Hamilton <angelicapaganelli@yahoo.com> wrote in news:32863a01-d8ae-
4e5b-8973-19d996099b3c@t2g2000yqn.googlegroups.com:

> On Nov 12, 5:27*am, Andy <a...@b.c> wrote:
>> Were you a picky eater?
>>
>> I sure was. Beginning at 2-yo.
>>
>> Grew up mostly on bread and butter and milk.
>
> Macaroni with margarine, salt, and pepper. It made
> me the woman I am today.
>
> I lost about 15 pounds this year, so my BMI has edged
> under 40. Hooray! I'm no longer morbidly obese!
>
> We'll see how that lasts through the holiday season.
>
> When I left for college, though, I was paranoid about
> being thought a rube, so I started eating what
> everyone else ate. I have relatively few food dislikes
> these days. Blue cheese is probably the most
> bothersome. "Could I have the gorgonzola salad
> without the gorgonzola, please?" (It's the house salad
> at a place where I eat lunch every month or two.)
>
> Cindy Hamilton


Cindy,

Glad you've reduced!!! [APPLAUSE] I know, it's a long and trying process!

At college we had an "all you can eat" cafeteria meal card. As picky as I
was, I managed to get my fill. DAMMIT!

Best,

Andy

ViLco wrote:
> Andy wrote:
>
>> Were you a picky eater?
>>
>> I sure was. Beginning at 2-yo.
>>
>> Grew up mostly on bread and butter and milk.
>>
>> You?
>
> I have always been a "sewer". In Italy, when someone eats everything or
> almost everything (my only kryptonite are cumin and fennel-seeds) we call
> him a "sewer".
> BTW - I tasted my first red-hot-pepper salami at 11, my father was trying to
> make a joke, but... I started asking for more and ended up eating a good
> third of that salami. I still remember that day, and my father's face. But
> it must be a family thing: some years before that, a coworker of my father
> tried the same joke on him and he simply said "Very good! Can I have more?"
> LOL

Sewer, LOL! My mom always used to say that I had a "hollow leg". I
wasn't real keen on some condiments: hated mustard even then, wasn't
big on mayo, catsup was of course just fine (does any kid dislike
catsup? all that sugar....) But pretty much everything else was fine by
me. Then again, mom didn't exactly challenge our palates!

TammyM

Nothing green ever entered my mouth until I was about 17, attended a
banquet and was too embarassed not try the tossed salad put in front
of me.

I think I lived on milk most of my childhood. And sweets.

Now, I eat almost anything, and shun sweets. I think it was just a
matter of education and maturing.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:27:11 -0600, Andy <a@b.c> wrote:

>Were you a picky eater?
>
>I sure was. Beginning at 2-yo.
>
>Grew up mostly on bread and butter and milk.
>
>You?
>
Not really. I wasn't a "my food can't touch" kid, but I ate my way
around the plate counterclockwise (I think) and didn't stack it on my
fork.

My grandson is a reformed picky eater... he ate white food only in his
picky days.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:58:20 +0100, "ViLco" <ViLco@ViLco.invalid>
wrote:

>BTW - I tasted my first red-hot-pepper salami at 11, my father was trying to
>make a joke, but... I started asking for more and ended up eating a good
>third of that salami.

Reminds me of my son when he was two and encountered whole black
olives for the first time. It was love at first sight. He put an
olive on each finger and proceeded to eat them all. Then he promptly
threw up on the floor. That didn't stop him from liking olives
though.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:20:15 -0600, Andy <a@b.c> wrote:

>I was obviously a visual eater.

My daughter (who is an adventurous eater now) used to take one look a
new food and say "Whatever that is - I don't like it!" Food critics
are everywhere.

--
I love cooking with wine.
Sometimes I even put it in the food.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:27:11 -0600, Andy <a@b.c> wrote:

>Were you a picky eater?

Till the age of 12, yes. But that's because I was never hungry. I was
stick-thin but very healthy, so my parents didn't worry. Then I
discovered hunger (I still remember my first hunger pang, I had
trouble identifying what it was!), and I started loving food and
expanding my horizons. Now I will eat just about anything (the only
stuff I don't like are bitter things - endives, amaretto flavoured
anything, grapefruit, Campari, stuff like that).

Nathalie in Switzerland

Nathalie Chiva wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:27:11 -0600, Andy <a@b.c> wrote:
>
>> Were you a picky eater?
>
> Till the age of 12, yes. But that's because I was never hungry. I was
> stick-thin but very healthy, so my parents didn't worry. Then I
> discovered hunger (I still remember my first hunger pang, I had
> trouble identifying what it was!), and I started loving food and
> expanding my horizons. Now I will eat just about anything (the only
> stuff I don't like are bitter things - endives, amaretto flavoured
> anything, grapefruit, Campari, stuff like that).

I wasn't a particularly picky eater as a kid but there were some things
that I didn't particularly like, and some things I would not eat. I
hated Lima beans, spinach, liver, fin and haddlie <sp?>, parsnips,
turnip and squash. I did not like olives and dill pickles. I didn't mind
the taste of liver, but the texture turned me off. I wasn't all that
crazy about beef or fish, but like liver, my mother always overcooked
them. I was never crazy about cooked carrots, but would and still do eat
them.

My tastes have changed, or maybe I have learned to cook some things
better than my mother used to. I learned to love beef, but rare or pink.
I learned to cook fish so that it is tasty. I found that parsnip is
delicious when roasted, and squash is downright delicious. I have eaten
good liver, though I have not cooked it for myself and don't order it in
restaurants.


My son was always a pretty good eater. He would eat and enjoy just about
anything. He is a very adventurous eater now. He is very easy to
please, as long as things are good. A few months ago we went out for
dinner and he ordered carpaccio. He had not realized that it is raw, but
he ate it.

"Dave Smith" <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote
> I wasn't a particularly picky eater as a kid but there were some things
> that I didn't particularly like, and some things I would not eat.

Yes, this was me too. I ate most things but had a few I just could not
stand. Those big green frozen peas, lima beans, and liver, any kind except I
liked liverwurst. Radishes.

In article
<fdd03d38-2c0e-4dba-881b-f5beeee5f5b8@s15g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>,
Kalmia <tweeny90655@mypacks.net> wrote:

> Nothing green ever entered my mouth until I was about 17, attended a
> banquet and was too embarassed not try the tossed salad put in front
> of me.
>
> I think I lived on milk most of my childhood. And sweets.
>
> Now, I eat almost anything, and shun sweets. I think it was just a
> matter of education and maturing.

I was far pickier as a child than I am now, but not to the extent I
hear described by others or see in a lot of children. We have one child
who is pickier than the others, but that is relative to his siblings.
He's also the one who was eating smoked trout hand over fist at age two
and loves things like lima beans.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/

Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:

> I was far pickier as a child than I am now, but not to the extent I
> hear described by others or see in a lot of children. We have one child
> who is pickier than the others, but that is relative to his siblings.
> He's also the one who was eating smoked trout hand over fist at age two
> and loves things like lima beans.

I have one nephew who is such a picky eater that I don't want to bother
inviting him for meals. He is downright rude, showing disgust at what is
offered. He is 36, old enough to have acquired a taste for a wider
variety of foods and more than old enough to acquire the manners to mask
his disgust.

In article <4afc5d8c$0$1618$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com>,
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I have one nephew who is such a picky eater that I don't want to bother
> inviting him for meals. He is downright rude, showing disgust at what is
> offered.
(snipped)
Food "issues" seem to abound in your extended family. I know of one in
my family ‹ a niece whose mother sneered at a lot of stuff.
--
-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
http://web.me.com/barbschaller - Who Said Chickens Have Fingers?
10-30-2009

In article <4afc5d8c$0$1618$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com>,
Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Ranée at Arabian Knits wrote:
>
> > I was far pickier as a child than I am now, but not to the extent I
> > hear described by others or see in a lot of children. We have one child
> > who is pickier than the others, but that is relative to his siblings.
> > He's also the one who was eating smoked trout hand over fist at age two
> > and loves things like lima beans.
>
> I have one nephew who is such a picky eater that I don't want to bother
> inviting him for meals. He is downright rude, showing disgust at what is
> offered. He is 36, old enough to have acquired a taste for a wider
> variety of foods and more than old enough to acquire the manners to mask
> his disgust.

We don't allow that kind of behavior in our smallest children. By
age two or three they know not to say or act out anything rude about the
food. We have explained how that would look if they did such a thing as
a guest somewhere, or if they were visiting another country. If they
didn't get it, Rich explained to them that my making meals was a way
that I loved them, giving them nourishing food that would taste good and
sustain them. Their making nasty faces or saying it was yucky was
equivalent to my receiving a picture they had drawn and telling them it
wasn't good enough, or that I'd seen better in books, or just plain
frowning and saying " Ew, what's that?!" in a rude voice. They usually
understood better after that. We told them that it was not acceptable
to act that way about anything offered them, even if they didn't like
it, and to eat (at least trying) everything offered them unless they
were allergic or ill.

It helps that I _am_ a good cook and that Rich and the children
genuinely like my cooking, but he has been a model father in teaching
them to appreciate the food as well as the work I put into it. He will
eat foods that aren't his favorite that I have cooked because most of us
like it, it is nutritious and inexpensive or whatever reason, and the
children rarely, if ever, can detect that he doesn't like something.

That isn't to say that I don't take their tastes into consideration
or that they aren't allowed to have dislikes, but we cannot be cooking
eight different meals and sometimes you just have to suck it up and eat
what's there.

Regards,
Ranee @ Arabian Knits

"She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands." Prov 31:13

http://arabianknits.blogspot.com/

sf <sf@geemail.com> wrote in news:0qhof59gpgvdr6soj8ncem9tj43llrboed@
4ax.com:

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:20:15 -0600, Andy <a@b.c> wrote:
>
>>I was obviously a visual eater.
>
> My daughter (who is an adventurous eater now) used to take one look a
> new food and say "Whatever that is - I don't like it!" Food critics
> are everywhere.


sf,

Heh heh heh heh heh!

Didn't kids used to know everything?

<VBG>

Best,

Andy

On Thu 12 Nov 2009 10:31:59a, sf told us...

> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:27:11 -0600, Andy <a@b.c> wrote:
>
>>Were you a picky eater?
>>
>>I sure was. Beginning at 2-yo.
>>
>>Grew up mostly on bread and butter and milk.
>>
>>You?
>>
> Not really. I wasn't a "my food can't touch" kid, but I ate my way
> around the plate counterclockwise (I think) and didn't stack it on my
> fork.
>
> My grandson is a reformed picky eater... he ate white food only in his
> picky days.
>

As a child I never liked canned peas, canned green beans, canned asparagus,
or canned spinach. I still don't. However, I like fresh or frozen
versions of all of them, especially fresh.

--

~~ If there's a nit to pick, some nitwit will pick it. ~~

~~ A mind is a terrible thing to lose. ~~

************************************************** ********

Wayne Boatwright