For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for February 08, 2012

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    Harryfan  over 12 years ago

    When I was a kid the family tradition was that the birthday person got to choose what we had for dinner. When I found out that my dad hated broccoli, broccoli became my meal of choice. He had to clean his plate just like the rest of us if he wanted desert.

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    TheSkulker  over 12 years ago

    Simple: the dads had to eat “this stuff” when they were kids!

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    Gigantor  over 12 years ago

    Real men don’t eat quiche. Okay, now I’m dating myself.

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    dugharry  over 12 years ago

    As a child I rebelled against eating cabbage one Sunday lunch time. It was served up each day thereafter – I ate it Thursday!!! I still hate cabbage…

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    Finbar Gurdy  over 12 years ago

    Ya ever notice that even Popeye never eats his spinach until he absolutely has to…..

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    psychlady  over 12 years ago

    Very soon, Liz will hate it too!!

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    Niki1983  over 12 years ago

    I always loved spinach growing up, so I would’ve loved spinach quiche. Then again, I loved a lot of “child-hated” veggies. Still do. The only ones I couldn’t and still can’t come to terms with are brussels sprouts and raw onions. :)

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    teddyr  over 12 years ago

    So call me weird, but one of my favs STILL from childhood is fried liver with cooked spinach (fresh only) on the side. YUM!!!!!

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    NE1956  over 12 years ago

    Other than curry-anything, there is very little that I’ll turn my nose at. I’m the son of a dairy farmer who also had a 5 acre garden. Even brussel sprouts works for me.

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    gobblingup Premium Member over 12 years ago

    I loved spinach and cabbage as a kid because my grandmother made stuffed cabbage and spinach pies that were delicious, so we gobbled it down! My mother hated broccoli, so she never served it so it took me a looong time to like it (read: tolerate it). My kids LOVE 99% of veggies and I regularly put spinach on their sandwiches rather than lettuce. Broccoli is my 6 yo’s favorite food. Ever since they were babies, I’ve never disguised veggies and they have them at every meal, so it is now normal for them.

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    nancyroy2  over 12 years ago

    Daddy is setting a bad example.

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    chefcass  over 12 years ago

    enough garlic and butter, brussels can be edible

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    Miserichord  over 12 years ago

    Enough Garlic and Butter, Snails, Slugs, and Roaches can be edible, too. What’s your point?

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    lemon868  over 12 years ago

    @Nab—cooking somewhat neutralizes the oxalates, and depending on the other foods eaten with them, you might not impair your iron uptake.

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    hippogriff  over 12 years ago

    Spinach is nice in a tossed salad with similar veggies; cooked it is as bad as cooked lettuce.

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    danlarios  over 12 years ago

    a #1 cause for divorce or just bury it in ketchup & hot sauce thats what I did

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    Harryfan  over 12 years ago

    Continuing on my birthday dinner theme. My little brother just loved waffles. So for many years we had waffles for dinner on his birthday. The irony, his birthday fell on Halloween. Talk about a sugar high. The funny part is that non of my siblings have come up with diabetes.

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    keltii  over 12 years ago

    My boyfriend can’t understand that the texture of onions make me gag, no matter how they are cooked, I can’t stand onions, never have. Peppers too!

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    stuart  over 12 years ago

    My wife and I would put the vegetables on our own plates, not the kids. When they would ask why, we said, “you probably wouldn’t like it”. After they begged and pleaded for a while, we said, “well, maybe just a taste”. And so on. Three out of four still love their vegetables.

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    iced tea  over 12 years ago

    I always hated macaroni&cheese and creamed chipped beef on toast. I prefered to eat chicken, lasagne, and ethnic cuisine.

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    chris.smith618  over 12 years ago

    My grandson loved cauliflower (white foods), but refused to eat his broccoli. I told him that broccoli was little green trees and now he wants broccoli all the time. ;) Sometimes it is all in how we approach the vegetable that gets the kids to eat them.

    @Stuart Gathman: Wish I had thought of that one it seems like a good way to get the kids to try more veggies!

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    Gretchen's Mom  over 12 years ago

    Agreed! I didn’t like broccoli at all when I was a kid; now I just love it . . . raw, cooked, steamed, baked — it doesn’t matter. But liver? I still can’t stand that stuff!

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    hkbritt0920  over 12 years ago

    Wow you guys! I love all the fresh veggies. As a kid we ate what we grew. Everythjng from collards to spinish, butter beans, crowder peas, white potatoes, sweet potatoes. You name it we had it. I even enjoy eating brussels sprouts, raw onions, expecially the sweet kind. I love steamed cabbage, fried cabbage, raw cabbage. I even ate the middle core. Sometimes the core tasted sweet at other times it tasted a bit strong. Still good though. I have to say that food just doesn’t taste as good as it did when I was a child growing up in Mississippi. Vine rippen tomatoes was my favorite meal. I would go to the garden with a salt shaker and eat tomatoes until my mouth was raw. Fresh figs did that to me too. I didn’t know when to stop eating.The leaves from the fig tree was fun to use. We use to slap a leaf on our arms or legs and it would leave a leaf mark for a few days. That was our tatoos. Those were the days.

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