Eating your veggies

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• not_that_guy05@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now I just say to my kids, “there are starving children in the US that wish they had this food”. The turntables.

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t wait for Ethiopia to start collecting money to pay off American school lunch debts

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• Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Steamed vegetables are great. You’re just supposed to do more than steaming it. And not to oversteam.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Evolution is a hell of a natural force.

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  • BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Relevant Mr lovenstein

    For me personally growing up, everyone just steamed them into a wet tasteless mush. This is not the way.

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Especially Brussels sprouts

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    • atx_aquarian@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Part of it, too, is selective breeding (aka genetic modification, but that’s a dirty word).

      www.bhg.com/news/brussels-sprouts-less-bitter/

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  • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Akareth@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FYI, people who do not eat any fruit or vegetables (on the carnivore diet) do not get scurvy.

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    • Aggravationstation@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That was a joke, friend

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  • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • solarbabies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I see you got your food science degree from Trump University.

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• magic_lobster_party@kbin.run ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Waka waka, eh eh

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• Flughoernchen@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never understood how me eating stuff was supposed to help children in Africa

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  • CommissarVulpin@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Even with the first part, me eating or not eating the food doesn’t wouldn’t have done anything for the Africans.

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• Blackout@kbin.run ⁨11⁩ ⁨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?

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  • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you ate her broccoli dude of course she’s hungry

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• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Me when my mother tried to make me eat my vegetables.

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• lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Impressive that you care more about Africa than your body

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t say I’ve met many 8-year-olds who cared about their body

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• EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Goddamn Sally Struthers

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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• Etterra@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I never got that one. Just tedious punishment if I refused. For some reason my mother never hit me for that one.

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• thefrankring@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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