1. Are you a picky eater? Write about the foods that trigger your fight or flight response.
My Mom was old school. When she prepared a plate of food for us at the dinner table, by God we ate it.
And I was particularly picky so if I smelled steak (too chewy), mashed potatoes (too potatoe-y), tacos (weird spice), or rice pudding (raisins, ew) cooking, I would fall to the ground groaning about how much she must hate me to continue cooking this “food” that wasn’t spaghetti or pizza.
At one point my mother pointed to a plate of corn kernels that I had arranged all over my plate to make it LOOK like they had been eaten when really they had just been dispersed and she was all, “Kathy, stop dispersing your corn to make it look like you’ve eaten it and just EAT it!”
And I was all, “I HATE THIS CORN!!”
And she was all, “You do realize this corn is exactly like corn on the cob, but that the kernels have been pulled off…you love corn on the cob, the taste is not different.”
I stared at my corn kernels.
Mind. Blown.
It’s crazy how your palate grows up with you though because as an adult I WILL eat corn on the cob and ALSO corn as kernels. I will eat steak and tacos and mashed potatoes (with gravy). I love salad and sushi and pho and really find that I’m not very picky at all. I’ll try just about anything! …but I do still draw the line at rice pudding with or without the raisins.
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1. Are you a picky eater? Write about the foods that trigger your fight or flight response.
2. Analyze a popular song you heard on the radio (present or past) what exactly does it all mean?
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Patty+Sparano says
Interesting about the raisins in rice pudding. Made me think that, when I’ve had rice pudding, it never had raisins in it or…I just picked them out. It’s actually delicious, along with Tapioca Pudding….which, I’m guessing, you may not like as well.
I had a friend who refused to eat chicken parts….legs, breasts, etc., unless…..they came from, and were cut from….a whole chicken. No “family size packages” of poultry for him, ever. But, he loved chop meat which, we all know, definitely doesn’t come from one source, or animal parts. Go figure.
John Holton says
The corn story reminded me of my dad. Mom used to make tuna casserole from the recipe on the Campbell’s Cream of Mushroom soup can. Dad would go through it and actually pick the little bits of mushroom out. (By the way, I LOVED that as a kid, but now I think it’s gross.)