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You'd do it too, if you had the chance.
Everybody does it.

an endless stream of fans he calls “the Jake Paulers”

Liberals Can't Handle the Truth, by Megyn Kelly and [23-year-old Dartmouth grad ghostwriter], coming from Regnery in 2019. With a foreword by Ann Coulter.

My 3 year old daughter will literally scream herself sick if we try to get her to eat anything green.

Guilty as charged — I spent the better part of my work day scrolling through these comments and found it absolutely intriguing. But also, I'd much prefer to obsess over food right now than over the ongoing shitshow that is "the news."

And all the varieties of parathas! Great way to slip all kinds of veg and spice flavors into a nice familiar pillow of soft bread.

And all the varieties of parathas! Great way to slip all kinds of veg and spice flavors into a nice familiar pillow of soft bread.

I was the same way with steak as a kid. We had it a lot, because that's what my dad wanted, even though we couldn't afford good steak, and my mother didn't really know how to cook it properly. Many, many mouthfuls stuffed into napkins and discreetly tucked under plate rims…

The Hubby and I are honorary "uncles" to the two boys of a good friend of mine, and it's exactly the same dynamic: one literally ate nothing but buttered pasta and one particular brand of veggie burger until he was 6 or 7, while the younger one will try absolutely anything, and likes almost everything. Always boggled…

Yeah — like an actual bona fide egg, right off the griddle. The egg was tender and moist, which is hit or miss with the ubiquitous "bacon egg & cheese" of NYC delis — if they're overwhelmed or just not very competent, you may get a mess of rubbery egg-chunks.

That got me to thinking about my brother and me (now both in our 50s). We are…very different people, to put it mildly. As I mentioned somewhere else in the comments (which have been an absolutely fantastic read, frankly, whatever you might think of the original article), we were both sort of socialized to be bland…

share your food with her

There was an article in the NY Times (I think) about the relative paucity of Indian restaurants in NYC, compared to Chinese, Thai, Mexican, Middle Eastern, etc. One argument is that Indian food is simply much more time- and labor-intensive than other cuisines, so it's that much harder to make the economics work,…

My problem with sushi is that I can't stand the taste of seaweed. I've gotten some quizzical looks for that over the years.

Daal strikes me as a great way to gradually introduce kids to complex flavors…you can start off just feeding them a bland (but oh so comforting) basic lentil mush, and then work in aromatics, spice, and heat bit by bit.

Oh, and good luck with the celiac management (although as you say, your eclectic tastes will serve you in good stead in that department). I may be following you down that road, waiting for the blood test results in a couple of weeks…

Same here (picky eater turned wide-ranging, although not quite as wide as you describe). Part of it was that I was socialized into picky eating: my dad and older brother have extremely limited palates to this day, so the family dynamic while I grew up was that my mother and sister ate "stinky" vegetables like spinach…

Glad you brought this up (your final question, I mean). I remember reading this article by two anthropologists when I was in grad school: