Men Who Eat Like Boys

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SifuPhil

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This article could have been written about me. Strangely enough, the first example they give is a guy from Scranton, PA, a few miles up the road from me.

It's all about grown men who refuse to eat their veggies and live on chicken, burgers and Mac & Cheese. :p

The Men Who Eat Like Boys
 

It's my little way of holding on to the little boy inside me for as long as the good Lord will allow. Basically, as the Alan Jackson song says, I'm a meat and potatoes man. Over the years the wife has gone out of her way to find recipes to make it harder for me to get around the things I don't care for and, to be honest, she's gotten quite good at it. Still, I have to let her know from time to time that I know what she's doing so she doesn't think she's getting something by me :). I suppose if I'd known I was going to live this long, I'd have eaten better, exercised more. Who am I kidding, I doubt I would have changed a thing. Bon Appetit everyone :cool:.
 
Who remembers this saying? "Real Men Eat Quiche"

Loaded with good stuff like veggies and the men will eat it when a woman makes them eat it :)
 

SifuPhil said:
This article could have been written about me. Strangely enough, the first example they give is a guy from Scranton, PA, a few miles up the road from me.

It's all about grown men who refuse to eat their veggies and live on chicken, burgers and Mac & Cheese. :p

The Men Who Eat Like Boys
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OMG- this topic is one of the most infuriating. I will hold back, even though my blood is boiling. My youngest grandson is very picky,, but for me, he would be just like those men in the article. Thankfully he's not that bad.

- why do parents assume mac & cheese, hot dogs, nuggets, burgers, pizza and over-sugared cereals to be foods for children and little else? Who started this?

All food is for all people!

- why do parents allow 2 years olds to run round with sippy-cups hanging out of their mouths with sugary juice in them all day, then wonder why they're not hungry? And when they can full well hold a normal cup in their own hands?

When my 2 grandsons were young, they were coming to stay over with me on one of many, many Friday nights after work.

I casually told my co-workers that I planned to stop at the store and pickup 3 filet mignon for our dinner. They actually laughed at me! They looked at me like I had 2 heads. "Filet mignon for your GRANDSONS?" they screamed, "but they're just kids!"

I asked them who better to have the most wonderful meals but my own precious grandchildren, that they would also be having their favorite broccoli as well and asked them "What else should I feed them do you think..HOT DOGS like you give your kids?"

Their moronic laughter quickly died away.
 
Does anyone remember Pres. George H.W. Bush (the 1st) saying, "I hated broccoli as a kid. I still hate it. And now that I'm president nobody can force me to eat it"
:lofl:
 
RadishRose said:
OMG- this topic is one of the most infuriating.
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One of the things that made me grind my teeth was the first video in the article about the little kids crying and screaming. I never put up with that with my kids. You either eat it or you go to bed and wait until breakfast.

... then guess what was for breakfast? :yuk:
 
Traveler said:
Does anyone remember Pres. George H.W. Bush (the 1st) saying, "I hated broccoli as a kid. I still hate it. And now that I'm president nobody can force me to eat it"
:lofl:
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Yes I do. There was a big flap about it! Broccoli growers were all mad at him. Was that the time he fell off a little outdoor stage somewhere?
 
SifuPhil said:
One of the things that made me grind my teeth was the first video in the article about the little kids crying and screaming. I never put up with that with my kids. You either eat it or you go to bed and wait until breakfast.

... then guess what was for breakfast? :yuk:
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I wanna know who Aunt Jean is.
 
Jay Leno is well known for these exact eating habits. My own husband would be too,if it weren`t for my mom offering him foods he had never tried before (and therefore claimed to not like). I think he actually like everything and I have continued my mom`s way for the past 50 years lol. There`s not much he doesn`t like and pretty much nothing he won`t at least try.
 
When my daughter was about maybe 18 months old and on proper food rather than baby jars and milk.. visiotrs were always surprised to see her sitting in her highchair eating ready break and half a grapefruit for breakfast. She was expected to eat sugary rubbish I suspect.

For dinner she would eat home cooked veggies, and meat... never fish fingers, or chicken nuggets or burgers etc..why?... well simply because I didn't give it to her. She'd never tasted anything like that until she started school.and further to that I never bought her sweets or gave her sugary drinks in a sippy cup or a bottle .

My daughter is 42 years old next month, slim, with perfect teeth, never even had a filling.. as she got older she simply never gained the taste for sweets and sugary drinks..
 
Mizzkitt said:
Who remembers this saying? "Real Men Eat Quiche"

Loaded with good stuff like veggies and the men will eat it when a woman makes them eat it :)
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The saying is real women don't pump gas and real men don't eat quiche.

I do think nature inserts tastes to protect ourselves from harmful foods.

If you eat something like peas and immediately expel them that's a sure sign they are poison to your system.

At one time I was the fussiest eater on earth. Soup was strained only for the broth.

Now I will try everything. But if it's slimy. No chance.
 
My hubby is very easy to feed; he likes whatever I make. (Or at least he never complains. :D) Plenty of fruits and vegetables in this house. We raised 5 kids and not a picky eater among them, thank goodness. We never made an issue of food; just put it on the table and everyone ate.
 
Traveler said:
I say to everyone , male or female, eat what you want. No one has any right to order you around.
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Here we go! I am an extremely finicky eater. I am also fully grown, of sound mind,and am in the latter portion of my life.
I will eat what I know I like and nothing more.
Nothing pisses me off more than having some fool urge me to "Try it, I know you'll love it". No I won't love it!
 
Well first off let me say.....No woman tells me what to do....period!

That said..One did , in my past. My mother. And she insisted I try..what ever she put on the table in front of me. I did, and IMO as a result I like damn near everything.

Matter of fact just last night I was thinking i need a few things to make me some greens.

I like mixed greens , with onions , tomatoes , a hard-boiled egg...vinegar & oil and some good mustard.

Think I'll do up a cornbread to go along with it....yum,yum !!
 
Ah
A subject I could go on and on about

Gotta go back a ways

5 or 6 years old
Dinner
Canned peas
I’d like to think the frozen ones, the fresh tasting ones, hadn’t been invented yet
Dad loved the canned ones
Soft
Mushy
Almost had taste
It was assumed we’d all fight over seconds
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I just could not get one down

‘Gary, you need to eat at least some’

So
I got crafty
Moved them strategically to the edge of my dish, leaving portions of clean plate as clear evidence of consumption of 'at least some'

They didn’t buy it

‘You will sit there until they’re all gone, young man’

No worries
Everbody left the table
I sat there
Shadows lengthened
I could still be there

Gotta hand it to my woman in my acquirement of varied culinary delights

Unfortunately, she has fondness for canned peas

The little nook I built in our first cabin has a nice view
 
When I was a kid I remember that my oldest brother would not touch lima beans. He was convinced that they would make him choke, or turn him into an alien being or something like that.

My other brother and I had a great time hiding squished-up lima beans in all of his food. :triumphant:
 

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