trading in "Alright, well, then you don't eat tonight" for "Well, what would you like to eat? Hamburgers? Okay!" I would so not be surprised. Some kids are so stubborn about that for so long...my little brother went through a phase where he wouldn't eat anything that wasn't off-white or beige, but my mom just ended up making a lot of cauliflower, mashed rutabaga, and white grapes. (Then he converted to tacos and now he won't eat anything that isn't doused in hot sauce.)
Also, I kind of think having a healthy appreciation of all food comes from being so poor that anything that winds up on your plate is like pirate treasure. I swear I read an article on Salon or something with exactly this--some story about how the writer's child refused to eat the skin on fish until their grandfather pointed out that when he was a child, he went hungry for days at a time and would have been ecstatic to find some tasty fish skins to eat.
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Date: 2010-06-17 06:20 pm (UTC)I would so not be surprised. Some kids are so stubborn about that for so long...my little brother went through a phase where he wouldn't eat anything that wasn't off-white or beige, but my mom just ended up making a lot of cauliflower, mashed rutabaga, and white grapes. (Then he converted to tacos and now he won't eat anything that isn't doused in hot sauce.)
I swear I read an article on Salon or something with exactly this--some story about how the writer's child refused to eat the skin on fish until their grandfather pointed out that when he was a child, he went hungry for days at a time and would have been ecstatic to find some tasty fish skins to eat.