Never understood the veggie hate, even as a kid. My brother still avoids them and he’s 30. I’m genuinely surprised he hasn’t contracted scurvy.
Eating your veggies
Submitted 5 months ago by realitista@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 5 months ago
I can explain. My parents just made bland, steamed vegetables. Idiots never learned to season and make vegetables tasty. Like it’s so easy.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 months ago
Steamed vegetables are great. You’re just supposed to do more than steaming it. And not to oversteam.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Evolution is a hell of a natural force.
BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For me personally growing up, everyone just steamed them into a wet tasteless mush. This is not the way.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Especially Brussels sprouts
atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Part of it, too, is selective breeding (aka genetic modification, but that’s a dirty word).
roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Children are generally adverse to bitter tasting things. Hunter gatherer poison defense. Some folks are just more acutely sensitive to it.
Usually it’s brassicas that cause that yuck reaction. Cabbage, broccoli, cale.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 5 months ago
My wife insists that broccoli is disgusting.
I like it. It’s not like super flavorful or anything, but I’ll roast and salt a little broccoli for something to add to my fettuccine. She always passes and refuses to even try it.
More for me.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s weird for me then because I loved vegetables as a kid but I still hate bitter things. I don’t enjoy beer or coffee. Can’t get enough broccoli or asparagus though.
Akareth@lemmy.world 5 months ago
FYI, people who do not eat any fruit or vegetables (on the carnivore diet) do not get scurvy.
Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 5 months ago
That was a joke, friend
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Most people are already hitting their nutrients, which reduces vegetables down to empty mass. They have very little caloric value, so eating them is a waste of time and of stomach capacity. And the human body knows this fact, so it reacts to the taste of vegetables the same way it reacts to sawdust.
solarbabies@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I see you got your food science degree from Trump University.
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 5 months ago
Waka waka, eh eh
Flughoernchen@feddit.de 5 months ago
Never understood how me eating stuff was supposed to help children in Africa
CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I blame lazy parents. The message is meant to be “You shouldn’t be picky, you should be thankful that you’re fortunate enough to have access to such quality food. There are people in much worse conditions than you, which much worse food security, who would gladly eat this broccoli/peas/whatever.” But most parents just say “there are starving children in Africa” and leave it at that.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Even with the first part, me eating or not eating the food doesn’t wouldn’t have done anything for the Africans.
Blackout@kbin.run 5 months ago
I ate mine for China. Later on I married one of those hungry Chinese children I had ate steamed broccoli for and she's still hungry. I think it's a genetic thing?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
you ate her broccoli dude of course she’s hungry
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 5 months ago
lowleveldata@programming.dev 5 months ago
Impressive that you care more about Africa than your body
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Can’t say I’ve met many 8-year-olds who cared about their body
EleventhHour@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Goddamn Sally Struthers
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I have always liked vegetables. Even broccoli and Brussels sprouts. A friend once got in trouble with his mom for giving me his Brussels sprouts when I came over for dinner.
Etterra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I never got that one. Just tedious punishment if I refused. For some reason my mother never hit me for that one.
thefrankring@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My parents used to say that argument for me to finish my plate.
Until I found a better argument and never heard that phrase again.
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Now I just say to my kids, “there are starving children in the US that wish they had this food”. The turntables.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 months ago
Can’t wait for Ethiopia to start collecting money to pay off American school lunch debts