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Did your mother ever tell you that there were starving children in China when you refused to eat a certain food that she served you?

What was the food that usually got triggered that question?

Liver & Onions...and I didn’t fall for it either.
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NativeOregonian · 51-55
Broccoli, which when cooked made me puke, which my first grade teacher found out the hard way after I spewed on her desk shortly after lunch, she made me eat it.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativeOregonian Never saw a teacher make anyone eat anything. They encouraged it by telling us we could be members of the “Three Bite Club” if we took three bites of a new food or a food we thought we didn’t like. Canned spinach was the one food that made all of us in first grade drop out of the Three Bite Club.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@cherokeepatti Never heard of that club. But yes, for some reason at my school, which was located a half hour SW of Portland, in 1976 allowed teachers to verbally force kids to eat everything, my teacher was shaming me really hard in front of my classmates to the point of bullying. However, karma got her in the form of puke, with bits of broccoli, peaches, salisbury steak, and mash potatoes, I remember it very well LOL
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativeOregonian Good lesson you taught her. I think the teacher made up the club, like it was cool as the Mickey Mouse Club or something. I was never a club joiner, and probably the Three Bite Club had something to do with that...
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@cherokeepatti Nothing like patronizing kids to make them more rebellious LOL
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativeOregonian If a kid singles out a food that they don’t like don’t make them eat it. I don’t understand why they do that.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@cherokeepatti I wish I knew, various food allergies runs in my family, my older brother is highly allergic to onions.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativeOregonian I guess a person can be allergic to anything. Some people get really sick when they eat cilantro, there is one gene that indicates they will hate it. My sister used to be allergic to onions, garlic and eggs. So allergic to eggs that she would throw up if she forgot and ate a sandwich with a little bit of it spread on the bread, and she’d be sick all day long. But for some odd reason she can eat onions and eggs now.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@cherokeepatti Even the smell of cilantro makes me puke, and it pisses me off that more and more frou frou nouveau cuisine joints use that vile weed in their dishes. I had a friend that cooked in Chinese takeouts in the 90's, and he told me that cilantro is used by the Chinese to wash their produce. What they do is fill a sink full of water, throw in a bunch of cilantro then the produce, swirl it around then rinse off the produce and set it aside to dry. When they drain the sink, the bottom has a sediment layer that would made your jaw drop. Cilantro is literally soap, that is why it tastes that way to so many of us.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativeOregonian If a person isn’t allergic to it cilantro can be used to detox the heavy metals out of your body. One bunch per day for a couple of weeks, wash it, put it in the blender, and drink it straight up.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@cherokeepatti There again is the soap/cleansing factor LOL :)
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativeOregonian But it is very important if you can tolerate it. Considering that I lived in university apartments for a decade and the well water was found to have been contaminated with arsenic...and then moved to another apartment with city water that was found to be contaminated with chromium.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@cherokeepatti Maybe use it as a filtration in combo with activated charcoal. But I cannot be around the stuff, unless you want to see me turn as green LOL
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@NativeOregonian Nope just by itself, it takes the metals out. I think charcoal wouldn’t hurt though.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@cherokeepatti The charcoal would help with the other VOCs.
NativeOregonian · 51-55
@cherokeepatti Like the taste of the cilantro itself, that is what I would use the charcoal for LOL