Drabble by Kevin Fagan for June 09, 2021

Tell her that bunny rabbits love carrots…..

Mash them into her mashed potatoes. Or serve them with butter and maple syrup. I used to smash peas into stew gravy to get my son to eat them.

Potato pay her to eat them.

I’m wondering if Penny has eaten carrots before? Ask her this and if she hasn’t, ask her why she has objections to eating them.

My brother was a picky eater. Wouldn’t eat his peas and carrots. My grandfather sat him down and announced very calmly and seriously “I want you to eat every carrot and pea on your plate”.

I don’t remember if it worked.

When I was kid I ate the vegetables because they told me I had to. When I grew up I never touched that crap again.

Would this call for the “carrot or the stick” treatment?

GO TO YOUR ROOM.

My oldest daughter wouldn’t eat carrots.

I used to like raw whole carrots, just like Bugs Bunny. Cooked carrots are good, and carrot cake is great.

Cue “Only Time” by Enya, and bring out the Kraft mac and cheese.

“Where there a will there’s a way. Where there’s a ’won’t’ there’s a way not to.”

Baarorso: I never tasted liver, didn’t have to taste it to know it would make me gag. And that was before I learned what its function is in the body.

I trust my natural instincts, served me well over many years.

George Carlin: "When I was a kid I was known as a fussy eater. ‘Fussy eater!’ That’s what they called it in my house. “He’s a fussy eater.” ‘Fussy eater’ is a euphemism for “Big pain in the ass.” I would say, “I don’t like that!” “Why?” They wanted reasons. Well, you don’t always have a reason. “I don’t know. I know I don’t like it. And I know that if I ate it, I would like it even less. You like it? You eat it!” Then they would try to corner me with logic. “How do you know you don’t like it if you’ve never even tried it?” “It came to me in a dream!”

We had to eat everything. We were told what if you become a diplomat & are at a state dinner. You can’t refuse anything. I did travel & found that was good advise. Although in some movies when it involves aliens, there are some dishes I don’t think I could handle.

No problem. No dessert…..

they’ll still be there when you wake up.

Give her a choice between 3 vegetables and serve the one she picks. Most kids will eat Some vegetables. Or serve carrot sticks raw with ranch dressing for a dip.

There’s a way to make them more palatable, lots of cheese sauce.

Eat the food your parents prepare for you or don’t eat. Simple.

Isn’t carrots one of, if not the first jar of baby food kids eat?

My parents would just serve me the stuff at the next meal, regardless of what meal it was. After a couple of very unusual breakfasts I learned to eat the meal served.

That’s what I said when my mother tried to feed me lima beens. I hate lima beans.

Ugh my mom used to serve cold gloppy spinach straight out of the can! She’d also make us drink milk which i hated because it made me sick (once I got older I understood i was lactose intolerant. I don’t know why my mom never thought of that when I told her it made me sick!) Anyway 1 day i got the “bright” idea to put the spinach in the milk, thinking she’d never make me drink the nasty mess! But she did lol then I really hated them! It was so disgusting!

Green Eggs and Ham.

My Gramps used to say… “Eat every carrot and pea on your plate”. We only had carrots.

Carrots? Be glad it’s not spinach or liver or BOTH.