French fries vs potatoes.

The nine year old has been especially trying lately. His mother made a wonderful soup for us using some cubed lamb meat, potatoes (diced into 16ths), baby carrots cut in half, sliced onion, egg noodles, and various herbs and spices suitable for a soup. We had a side of salad, lentils, and long grain rice. All in all healthy and good food.

The nine year old did eat all the cubed lamb but refused to eat anything else. I told him he could not play video games on the computer until he finished his dinner. There was lots of back talking, a bit of crying, and lots of emotional blackmail. I sat there with a half full bowl of soup, not too big as he is nine, trying to get him to eat a spoonful of broth and a bit a boiled potato.

The little shit wouldn’t do it. Now, I have taken him to McDonald’s before where he stuffs giant handfuls of god damned French fries into his mouth but a simple bit of potato is supposedly to disgusting to eat. This little fucker will eat bags of potato chips, super sized French fries, but the healthy food which his mother made (which is really quite good) is just a bridge too far? WTF?

Abort all fetuses.

Newflash: parenting is difficult, especially when you've never had to do it before! More at 11

....emotional blackmail? Over food?

That sounds like you're doing it wrong.

Just taking a stand in the dark, but Im guessing the kid can sense that you refer to him as "the little fucker" and is probably fucking with you?

But putting your helpful and productive attitude aside, yeah that's not unusual for a kid to enjoy one form of vegetable but not others. My nephew is picky about broccoli for instance. My brother didn't like potatoes au gratin but he'd eat a baked potato.

It could be a sensory thing too.

Alternatively, you could not date single mothers.

That too is an option.

Also, stop posting these lame ass threads in the RR, jeez

Oh, I started playing video games on the computer and refused to let him play until dinner was eaten. I made extra sure to say how fun it was and how he couldn’t play until dinner was done. Dinner has now been finished and the computer has been turned over to him.

#psychology

It took long enough.

Suggestion? Every time Dimmer posts a food-related thread in the RR, just automatically move it to the GR. He'll have another drunken hissy and go away for a while...again.

I just hope he isn't left alone with that kid for any length of time. I'd check for bruises.

I wonder if his Panamanian GF is aware of what Dinner thinks about Hispanics in general.

Dinner and Shirogayne are sexting with pm's. Dayton will reveal them.

Wife. Also, as usual you have no idea what you are talking about.

I agree with the kid. He may have not liked thee taste or texture of it. There's just some shit I simply can't and won't eat. I may love something cooked one way, but add a different flavor or cook it a different way, and it's disgusting to me.

yup... i hated cooked peppers but loved them raw... completely the opposite with onions (except chives).

also, at 9 shouldn't he be cutting his own food-even clumsily? I had some motor control issues still around that age, but the actual function was there. More about appropriate grip on the utensils.

I love mozzarella cheese on pizza, but in stick form (like snack sized) I find it repulsive. Liver is the devil 100 percent of the time, full stop.

oh shit, cooked carrots are the devil! Raw I love them.

That is some decent food for thought. Thanks.

His mother and I have spoken about this. At school he will happily cut his own food. If I take him some where without his mom being around then he will cut his own food. If mom is around he will sit there demanding she do it for him and... She does it every time.

Oh, yes, there have been discussions about this but so far neither seems to be changing behaviors and I find that annoying.

My mom will make chicken soup with chunks of carrots and chunks of squash, they're nearly nauseating boiled. The soup itself is good, but can't stand the carrots and squash that way. And another food that I find disgusting is Brunswick Stew, that shit is just some nasty slop.

And I really don't care if someone is offended if I don't like something, I'll try new foods, but if I don't like I'm not eating it. If they get offended, that's their problem. No reason for me to be uncomfortable or disgusted just appease someone.

Why are you holding a nine year old captive?

I can't stand lamb, but love shawarma.

I also love mayo and cheese on sandwiches, but can't stand it when the mayo touches the cheese. On the other hand, I love pimento cheese.

Are you insane? That's all the best food in the world put together into one orgasmic bowl of yummy awesomeness.

Not, just don't care for it. I've tried it a few times and each time it's just some nasty slop I don't like

I enjoy eating various breads but eating flour straight from the bag isn't very appealing.

I like the white squishy part of bananas but the peels are tough to chew and taste weird.

I like food in general but wouldn't want to eat shit even though it used to be food.

Tonight was spagbol with garlic bread and a side salad. He ate all the spagbol and asked for seconds, he ate his slice of garlic bread, and about half of the salad. He did so well I did not fuss about the half finished salad and for dessert he got vanilla ice cream with half a Hershey bar.

The kid likes spagbol.

My dad's response to him not cutting his own food or refusing to eat was simply not to care. Eventually he will get hungry and eat but make sure not to eat outside of regular meal times. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner but nothing inbetween. He will get hungry and eat.

Ah, so that explains your recent absence 'round here congrats.

Also, no u

Earlier I made fish sticks in my deep fryer, and then my room mate came into the kitchen. I said "Hey, cut these for me?" and he said "No. who the hell cuts fish sticks?" and I said "you do if you know what's good for you!" and he said "no," and I said "fine, but if I choke on them it's all your fault!" So I ate whole fish sticks with my hands like a savage and he's lucky I didn't choke on them.

I had lamb a few hours ago in a Turkish restaurant! The restaurant owner looks like Negan from Walking Dead. He doesn't carry a bat, but if he did he would call it Zeynep most likely.

For me, it's the difference between pickles and raw cucumbers. I love a good pickle but I hate raw cucumbers and juiced with kale is the unholiest juice concoction ever made by a human. I say this as the one weird kid in the 90s who would eat radishes raw at the store and drank V8 back when it only came in one variety.

Same here. I cannot stand cucumbers unless they're pickled.