Food fussiness then and now

When I was a kid I was a fussy eater. I would have been content to live on pizza and chocolate if it had been permitted, but my parents were strangely not amenable to such a limited, if delicious diet. Instead I ate most of the food put before me. But not all of it. Here’s a few items I regularly passed on:

  • tomatoes
  • onions (unless they were onion rings, because deep frying makes everything better)
  • broccoli
  • mushrooms
  • cauliflower
  • peppers
  • Brussel sprouts
  • meat loaf (I actually ate this, but grudgingly)
  • bread crusts (I didn’t actually dislike bread crusts but somehow my mom thought I did. I eventually told her to leave them on.)
  • liver
  • turkey necks
  • mincemeat tarts
  • anchovies

As an adult I became much more open to eating just about anything, as long as it was edible and wasn’t still moving on my plate when served. That said, there are a few things from the above list that I still won’t touch:

  • Brussel sprouts are horrible anti-food. You will never convince me otherwise.
  • I still don’t care much for meat loaf. Something about the combination of textures and flavor puts me off.
  • liver is yuck, like chewing on sour shoe leather
  • eating turkey necks is just weird
  • mincemeat tarts are grossbuckets; if you also happen to have butter tarts, all is forgiven
  • anchovies on pizza is disgusting. Why not just roll a salmon over the pizza then cover it with a box of salt? The taste experience will be largely the same.

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