Caoilin posted:
and people think i'm an asshole.
if someone doesn't like the way something tastes, telling them to "grow up" won't change the fact that they don't like the way something tastes. you might as well suggest someone grow up and learn to orgasm from a gunshot wound to the gut.
The vast majority of the "I hate peas" crowd, as Ptilk so aptly named them, are simply people who were picky child eaters and found a complaint or complaints that would make their mothers serve them Kraft macaroni and cheese and let them get back to their Spongebob cartoons as quickly as possible. They have never tried the various things that they say they hate or they tried them once when they were 6 and pissed off that they had to stop playing with their legos and come eat dinner and carried that into later life.
As for most of the "burn my meat" crowd - they too are the same. Someone they believed told them that unburned meat was safe and any meat that wasn't burned was raw. They find other people who know better in later life telling them that they are being silly with their safety concerns borne of lack of understanding and/or misinformation and simply change their argument to "it doesn't taste good to me" because they feel that such an argument is less likely to be challenged.
Both of these groups of people need to grow up and act like adults.
Look around yourself in America - the nation is awash in obesity and TERRIBLE eating habits and nutrition. People want fast food and pre-processed food - and while fast food isn't really healthy in any other aspect, it IS generally cooked to hell and otherwise microbially safe (which is a big part of its marketing and the primary focus of food inspections in the US - "Our food is sanitary and won't give you E. coli or salmonella!"
and salted and greased up to the point that it's palatable to the Kraft macaroni and cheese crowd.
How many mothers will shove a kangaroo-burger down their kid's throat that has 80 g of fat and 1200 mg of sodium and feel completely comfortable about having given their kids good nutrition, but will have a goddamn seizure if you try to serve their kid a homemade burger from 90/10 ground chuck that has a little pink in the middle?
With both my current and my past girlfriends, I've stopped telling them what's in the food I prepare them. For whatever reason I keep finding these picky eaters, who of course, have picky kids. The kids look for every excuse in the book not to eat or to eat macaroni and cheese and they will actually sit there and go down a list of excuses that they have used in the past with their mothers:
Kid: I hate this beef stew!
Mom: Honey, it's beef, potatoes, carrots, and peas, you like all of those things
Kid: I hate the onions!
Mom: It doesn't have onions.
Kid: I hate the tomato sauce!
Mom: It doesn't have tomatoes in it at all, no sauce, no tomatoes.
Kid: It's too peppery!
Mom: ~turning to me~ [Cawlin] you do sometimes put too much pepper in things.
Me: ~glaring~ I didn't season it at all
Kid: ~smiling now as he sees an argument he thinks will gain traction~
Mom: Honey, there's no pepper in it.
Kid: ~crestfallen now~ Can't I have hot dogs and cheesy mac?
Mom: We don't have hot dogs.
Kid: It's too hot.
Mom: Then just blow on it and let it cool.
Kid: ~takes a big bite and spits it everywhere and starts trying to muster crocodile tears and yammering that he burned his mouth~ (If this had happened in my house growing up I or my sister would have gotten a backhand.)
THIS is what I see when I see adults whine about their stupid food issues. THIS is why kids like that will grow up and be "processed food" junkies and McDonalds junkies with terrible nutrition and terrible eating habits and hardened arteries and cardiovascular disease in their 40s. Hey, but at least they got to eat what tasted good to them right?
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And I will consider them to be petulant little 6 year olds angry that they can't have their macaroni and cheese while they watch spongebob.