Poll of the Day > Were you a picky eater as a kid?

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I'm reading an article, https://goo.gl/o54xf6, about Obama's health initiative being dismantled and I can't help but feel the fault lies with the kids and not the program itself. I am sure the program wasn't perfect but I feel some kids are just too picky. Even among my Scouts I see that sometimes.

As a kid I ate everything I was given mostly because I was raised to never waste food. My parents worked minimum wage jobs so my sister and I better damn well eat whatever we were given. Going to McDonalds was considered a treat. Back in high school a friend of mine would always throw the crust from his sandwich and even now it still kinda bothers me when I see people do that.

Regardless of your reasons, were you a picky eater as a kid?

Comments are appreciated,

Thank you
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I was poor growing up so what we had to eat I ate. I was kind of picky and would trade my fruit for my siblings vegetables. I still don't like fruit that much but I love vegetables.
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I'm still a picky eater.
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I was somewhat picky

As an adult I eat everything. I'm not fond of olives, but I eat them anyways.
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Somewhat, and I still am as an adult.
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Nah, as long as you didn't feed me beets, I'd eat anything.

Even today I still question why beets exist.

Thinking back a bit, I actually did not like raw cilantro. I'll eat em but would prefer em not on my dish. I think the smell of raw ones were just too strong for me.

demonfang178 posted...

Nah, as long as you didn't feed me beets, I'd eat anything.

Even today I still question why beets exist.

Funny, I actually enjoy beets in my salads. What do you not like about em?
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Nah I'm easy to please. The only thing I really don't like are plain tomatoes and those giant olives.
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Mead posted...

I was somewhat picky

As an adult I eat everything. I'm not fond of olives, but I eat them anyways.

You just reminded me of my hatred for olives. I imagine it takes like old lady butthole. So gross.

When I was like 2-3 I refused to eat anything green. That changed pretty quickly and broccoli soon became my favorite vegetable (still is).

To this day I don't like olives which my parents thought was weird, but it just means I have to make sure that I don't get any olives on my Mexican or Greek food.
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InfestedAdam posted...

Funny, I actually enjoy beets in my salads. What do you not like about em?

Everything! The smell (reason why I can barely hold them down even if I force myself to eat them), the blood-red look, the texture. It took a while to get over my hatred for brussel sprouts if I drown it in cheese, but not so with beets because they're awful on everything.

When I was a kid I didn't like things that tasted "weird" like olives, Chinese mushrooms and Dr. Pepper.

Now I love all of them and I've been very tolerant of many foods since then, though there's some I would never want to try.
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Somewhat, and I still am. But I still ate what was prepared for the rest of the family in some form, even if I had to pick out ingredients I didn't like. The only times something "special" was cooked for me were the times my mom would make a second smaller onionless meatloaf for me, and that was only about half the meatloaf nights at best.

I'm allergic to soy, tomatoes, and egg whites (to varying degrees), so I always had to be picky. It was convenient though, as it got me out of eating lots of nasty-looking stuff I would've otherwise lacked an excuse to avoid.
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I'm still a picky eater. I have tried to learn to eat stuff like broccoli and carrots, but I can't. Carrots will make me vomit and broccoli and other leafy greens just make me gag.
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There are things I won't eat. But I am by no means what any reasonable person would consider a picky eater.
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negative, I was thankfull for food even if we had lots , because i was happy to eat after a day of playing around, thats when parents let their kids run around all day, even today i'll eat anything if its given to me, you always gotta be thankfull for food.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

I'm allergic to soy, tomatoes

Oh damn. I am sorry to hear that.