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My parents sometimes make me

The 'poor' people of today need to learn to eat what they are given. Our unemployed and/or drug addicted do a lot better than they would in another country and they still have the nerve to turn away green vegetables.

ugh, so many younger people were clearly coddled. no wonder they act like spoiler idiots. terrible parenting.

My parents didn't really give in to me when I wasn't interested in a particular food on my plate. However, if there was something I truly didn't want, I was simply asked to take a couple of "thank you bites". This wasn't really a problem, though, as I generally ate what was on my plate anyway.

My mom often told me the wolves would eat me if I didn't finish my food. And the witches would kidnap me. And the thunder god would strike me. I believed her for a really long time.

Rice. Asians eat rice and parents always give too much rice to the children. I liked vegetables, I'll eat all the vegetables. Just stop giving me a massive bowl of rice.

BUT MOOOOOOMM!!!! DON'T MOM ME!! then I'd eat most of it and everything was cool and copesetic..and to this day, I have not eaten liver lol

"DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY STARVING CHILDREN IN AFRICA OR CHINA WOULD LOVE TO EAT THAT??" "BUT IT'S LIVER AND ONIONS AND THEY'D PUKE BECAUSE IT'S SO GROSS!" "WELL, YOU'RE NOT LEAVING UNTILL YOU FINISH YOUR FOOD!!"

I love VT.

My mom made us eat every last scrap. Her favorite saying was "Never, ever, let a dead dachshund go to waste." Words to live by.

My parents - yes.

As parents we encouraged our kids to try everything - test a small amount of a new food.

But for familiar foods, if they put it on their plates they had to eat it. No hogging food, thus denying it to others, then wasting it.

Kato- pretty funny.
Brussel sprouts are the only food my kids don't like. I've never made either of them eat them.

My step mom made me eat brussel sprouts one night and I ended up puking everywhere including on my father which in return made him puke haha

Those starving children in china really needed me to clean my plate.

@Janarus. Exactly!

Of course!

No. But I always try to eat as much as I can. I even scrape every last grain of rice out of the pan. I hate knowing somewhere someone is starving. That's why I don't eat meat. Look up how much food we feed to animals just to eat them. We could end world hunger.

@holybabble: technically, crow hovers over us all daily! ;-). Or ;-( Which is your poison .?!

I had to try it. If I didn't like what was on my plate I didn't get anything else. Dinner was dinner you eat SOMETHING on your plate or you were hungry.

@ HolyBabble-Give it a week.

My parents would make me at least try everything. But if I didn't like it, they didn't make me eat it. And I simply had to eat until I was full. I've never had to finish off my plate, although I normally did anyways.

Republicans are eating crow today.


*chortle

With my kids, they're going to have two choices, eat what I give you or dont eat at all.

Oh my... Liver and onions! I still hate it to this day, but I had to eat it ALL!

I flat-out refused when I was younger. Now I'll try things, but if I don't like it I still won't finish it.

No I always ate everything on my own. I was a pig as a kid, but I never got fat from it

That's why "it" is considered "left-overs"!

Considered rude on Java Is. at formal gatherings.
Hard when your a walking trash compactor with two hollow legs and a tapeworm or two.

I like your mom, andres2100.

@AshRyan thanks! I'll remember to talk to him about that next time I go.

jerks

My brother and I didn't have to eat everything that we were given as long as we tried it first.

They didn't have to. I ate everything but liver & onions. So they just never fixed that dish again.

Until I threw up from corn and pork chops... two of the nastiest things on Earth.

Yes, which is the reason that I don't eat steak to this day. The kids got the cheap cuts and we had to eat everything, including the fat. I would gag on it. Now I won't even eat good cuts of steak. I never force my kids to eat something if they say they don't like it.

No

Yes my parents did! They also only made food they liked and if I didn't eat that I went to bed hungry. My step kids had a hard time getting used to that rule. They 'didn't like' anything their dad made so they ate chicken nuggets every night. Now they don't complain and eat whatever I cook.

They did at first.... until I started throwing the crap up. To this day I still refuse to eat mushrooms and tomatoes

Not finish, just try everything.

I contend that the reason America is so fat is because our parents have taught us to eat even when we are not hungry.

Hey, I need someone to blame when I am stuffing my face at 1 in the morning.

Phil- unresolved resentment?

Had to eat everything on the plate, and had to take at least some of everything even if it was disgusting. Kids were "starving in China" back then, so clearing my plate was doing my part to help feed them. Or something. How many times do you have to "at least try some" to know you don't like it?

There's very few foods I don't like, and so my parents usually avoided making them. Most of what I didn't like they didn't like anyways.

"Ma, I want! Gimme this, gimme that, *waaaaaah* I HATE YOU!"

Boy, at least your mom wants you, you little ingrate turd.

If I didn't like what was made, I went the fück without. As it should be, none of this coddling them until they're 30 and shīt. Most of my generation are little bîtches because they got spoiled rotten as kids.

I'm not a picky water so no not really. She would make me eat even if I wasn't hungers though. (mainly this would happen during the summer because I tend to lose my appetite during that time)

If I didn't want what I was being given to eat for a meal, I had to make something myself. Usually a a sandwich or pasta... Depended on what we had that I was allowed to eat.

No not really. My mom did make me eat eggs when I was little and didn't have the words to say "this tastes nasty." After about age 5 I liked pretty much everything I ate. Though my mom did ask me why I didn't always finish my lunch at school. (Not enough time and not enough variety.)

I would advise discussing with your PCP at your next visit. Hope that helps!

I would advise discussing with your PCP at your next visit. Hope that helps!