Picky EatersAn old, old friend of mine will not eat/drink any hot liquid. Tea, coffee, soup etc do not pass his lips.
Which would be odd enough if he wasn't in the Army. He managed to survive a tour of duty in the Serbian mountains in winter without a brew.
Who's the pickiest eater you know? How annoying is it? Is it you?
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chthonic, Thu 1 Mar 2007, 13:11)
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Lies and subterfugeAt 18 months I tried a spoonful of mustard and was so traumatised that I couldn't go near the stuff for the next 20 years. But anyway...
I was a very picky eater when I was small, and refused to touch anything containing onion or tomato (no pizza, made spag bol a bit dull), wouldn't eat salad (but didn't mind lettuce, or "tree", as I called it aged 3), mushrooms were off the menu (my "teeth bounced off them")....
Rather than argue and force me to eat stuff I didn't like, my parents resorted to covert tactics, including:
Surreptitiously adding dried onion powder to food.
Finely blending soups, then swearing blind they didn't contain anything I didn't like.
Telling me, aged 5, that when I had my tonsils out I would start to like all the things I hadn't liked up till then. (I found out the hard way that this wasn't true)
Now I'll eat just about anything except cucumbers.
(, Fri 2 Mar 2007, 13:09, Reply)
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