No. Your experience isn't unusual at all. I grew up in a household in which my grandfather, a chef, cooked exotic meals for us on the weekends, and my mother would whip up some amazing French, Japanese, and Vietnamese dishes. Yet as a kid, I still ate lots of Big Macs. This is because children like simple comfort…

Good old Eddie Murphy jokes. You can't get enough likes for that comment.

This isn't how things work in real life. As a parent, the reality is that family night is supposed to be fun. This includes the kids. So make it fun. That means you and the missus pick some adventurous meals and the kids eat chicken fingers and burgers, especially since it takes time for them to develop sophisticated…

Pretty much. I wonder how self-congratulatory he will be when his kid does something awful. As most kids will do because that's life.

I love eel. But I would never tell someone to eat what they don't like. Not my body, so not my choice. Besides, it is just food. You don't have to eat everything — and having a diverse palate doesn't make you a tolerant human being to those who are different than you.

I love most seafood. Even escarole, which probably deserves little love. But I hate oysters and despise clams. My grandfather, who was a chef, would serve up Oysters Rockefeller and, as great as he was at cooking (his braised short ribs were the bomb) I still hated them.

The problem with so-called foodies is that they eat a lot of places, but they know nothing about food. They wouldn't know about combining flavors or various versions of meals if it bit them on the ass.

Subway sucks. Period. No sensible person should ever eat at one. Even when they are broke.

Apparently, you haven't eaten a Hardees Frisco sandwich. Sourdough bread, cheese and ham is always delicious. Also, McGriddles are also tasty.

Your mother made bad lentils. It doesn't take a lot of time to cook lentils properly. More importantly, lentils have to be a component of something like a soup, preferably with Italian hot sausage or braised short ribs.

Yup. My son won't eat mushrooms and artichokes are a no-go. This is tough in a house in which my wife and I eat a lot of both. Onions are also a tough sell with him — and again, my wife and I eat a lot of both.

Pretty much. Even worse, the author argues that it is the restaurant's responsibility to do what parents should do: Raise their kids. My mother sent me a link to this piece with the words: "I raised you right. Do the same with my grandkid".

This is why I avoid taking my wife to any sushi restaurant. She hates sushi and despises tempura. I usually go to those restaurants myself.

As Facetaco said, that doesn't work with every dish. I am allergic to tomatoes, so I avoid all items that have them or, when possible, ask for no tomatoes in a dish. The only time that never works is if I am going to one of those no substitutions places such as Father's Office. But then, I always avoid those places…

That's fine — if the person is a celebrity or Gordon Ramsay. The rest of us? Not so much. There's a pecking order to those kind of things and we should all know it by the age of 40.

That's nice and all. People should expose their children to different kinds of food. But let's keep three things in mind. The first is that developing a sophisticated palate takes time. Even if you expose your children to a variety of foods as I do, children are going to like the basics because they appeal to their…

More often than not in society, people do act "like sheep". This has been seen throughout history, including in Nazi Germany and the World War II period (when Germans, Poles, and Ukrainians were willing to allow their Jewish neighbors to be murdered despite knowing them personally for decades), and in any riot on the…

In the context of the show, the girls breaking up with the boys was a punishment for online harassment done by an unrelated party. So, yes, it was punishment. Arguing otherwise is akin to re-writing the entire storyline of the season.

Cartman is already having revenge:
Got girlfriend while his classmates don't? Check.
Got to see vag while his friends show their cocks? Check.
Kyle begging him for help? Check. Check. Check.

Mormons are nice people, even to those of us who are black. Sure, they wouldn't let us into their churches voluntarily. But I'm not interest in being a Mormon, only in having people be civil.