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Laura
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The boys are sitting at the table refusing to eat spinach. It's been a half an hour since D and I got up from the table. It is a small quantity, a "no thank you" helping. I finally snapped and set the timer for 5 minutes. If they don't finish, they're going right to bed. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
p.s. Now the eldest says he has to go to the bathroom. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) Like I'm falling for that one.
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Rossweisse
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Sometimes a mother's gotta do what a mother's gotta do.
I feel your pain. (And I've felt that wrath myself ....oh, not more than an hour or so ago.) Hang in there.
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Siena
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It gets better, you know. I have moved on from "dinner table Nazi" and have now reached the exalted heights of "completely ruining whatever hope might have existed for a normal life."
In the immortal words of my father "You will never have to pay a therapist hundreds of dollars an hour to explain why I'm being mean to you. I'm being mean to you because you're being flipping unreasonable, and if you don't cut it out, everyone else will be mean to you, too."
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Duo Seraphim*
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Who's gonna crack first?
When I was 8 and he was 6, my mother used to cook my brother bacon and fried bread for breakfast every morning. Every morning they had a silent battle of wills on whether he would eat it.
One day, a teacher came up to me at playtime and said "Your brother is holding a mouthful of chewed bacon in his mouth, like a little hamster." I replied "Yes, Miss, he hates bacon so much that he refuses to swallow it."
Be warned.
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Laura
General nuisance
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I win! I win! They choked it down. I ignored the retching and puking noises and kept to my promise to add spinach every time there was a complaint. In the end, there was only one threat to run away.
I use the same explanation my mother used for us after cries of unfairness. She'd say, evenly: "I'm an ogre and it's just your bad luck you've got ogres for parents. When you're eighteen you may do as you wish (assuming you don't expect help with college) in which case you may do what you wish at 21.
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Laura
General nuisance
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Never give up! Never surrender!
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When did he swallow it?
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KenWritez
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You go, Laura! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
I remember hearing the SW say something akin to these words to her teenage daughter: "No, I am not your friend. It's not my job to be your friend, it's my job to be your mother. Ruining your life is merely one of the perqs*."
My 12 y.o. step-son already bemoans his status as "Above-Average Slave Child" and refuses to believe that our insistence he use good table manners, take out the trash and feed the pets are anything but further degradations in our cruel campaign of oppressing him.
My dad used to yank me out of sleep--literally--at 5:30 a.m. to force me to go jogging. Dad was real big on yessir/nosir authority, having grown up in a strict family during the Depression, so the AASC doesn't know how good he has it. I am tempted occasionally to disabuse him of his ignorance in a similar manner.... ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Siena
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Woo hoo, Laura!!!!
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Duo Seraphim*
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quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
When did he swallow it?
Ah, but here we see the purity of his protest. I simply don't know...
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Alfred E. Neuman
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You made them eat spinach?? [shudder] Beyond cruel!
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Raspberry Rabbit
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If they're remotely intelligent they've managed to stuff it into the corners under the table.
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Laura
General nuisance
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quote:
Originally posted by Gort:
You made them eat spinach?? [shudder] Beyond cruel!
Gort: you are aware that there are children starving in Africa?
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Laura
General nuisance
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quote:
Originally posted by Duo Seraphim:
quote:
Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
When did he swallow it?
Ah, but here we see the purity of his protest. I simply don't know...
Duo: have you seen "A River Runs Through It or read the book, when the youngest who has a will of iron sits for hours staring at "God's oatmeal" until his father is forced to give up?
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quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
Gort: you are aware that there are children starving in Africa?
But they taste terrible, and will give you kuru.
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Sinistærial
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quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
Gort: you are aware that there are children starving in Africa?
Let them eat the spinach!
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Laura
General nuisance
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quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
Gort: you are aware that there are children starving in Africa?
But they taste terrible, and will give you kuru.
Only if you eat their brains.
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Alfred E. Neuman
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![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) I was subjected to a variation of the "starving africans" routine when forced to eat spinach as a child..." Don't you know there are starving children in Afghanistan??" Horrible, limp, cold and bitter...I would gladly have used my allowance to ship the awful stuff overseas.
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Laura
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My spinach is not limp and bitter. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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David
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Did you stoop to the quote:
When I was a child I had to eat spinach 12 times a day and if I vomited it back up I was forced to ingest broken glass
routine?
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Alfred E. Neuman
What? Me worry?
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quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
My spinach is not limp and bitter.
Oh! Well if it was fresh, crisp and in a salad then the Lauroids have no excuse!
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Laura
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quote:
Originally posted by David:
Did you stoop to the quote:
When I was a child I had to eat spinach 12 times a day and if I vomited it back up I was forced to ingest broken glass
routine?
No, but I told them of how I was forced to weekly eat shudder oyster stew. Cream soup broth with snot-slime sea creatures. There was suitable horror expressed at my mother's cruelty.
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Janine
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But... but... but...
I would love a good oyster stew.
Or even an oyster-and-spinach stew...
And would have as a child. I just don't undertand...
I often serve either fresh baby spinach with all sorts of yummy salad stuff, or a gorgeous spinach casserole thing, with various cheeses and whipped eggs and perhaps nice crunchy bacon crumbs and maybe some buttery little mushrooms.
Everyone always loves spinach around here. Likely because they can't see it.
It's too smothered in wonderful stuff.
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I also love oyster stew, and have for many years. Can I have it?
Also, Laura, you can't be a real Nazi. I have it on the best authority--obviously my kids--that I am the ONLY true Nazi mom in the universe. No other kids are as persecuted as they. They promise.
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Left at the Altar
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Now that you've forced them to eat spinach, torture them with some mashed swede.
You will be elevated well above mere Nazi heights with an effort like that, and will witness gagging like you've not seen before.
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Rossweisse
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Originally posted by Laura:
Never give up! Never surrender!
By Grabthar's hammer, by the Sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged!
Or the spinach shall.
quote:
Originally posted by Benedictus:
Also, Laura, you can't be a real Nazi. I have it on the best authority--obviously my kids--that I am the ONLY true Nazi mom in the universe. No other kids are as persecuted as they. They promise.
Nuh-uhhh! I am a True Nazi Mother, and my children are The Most Persecuted in the World in Every Way. They tell me these things on a regular basis, and as I have raised them to be truthful, I am inclined to believe them.
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
...torture them with some mashed swede.
Can you DO that? Isn't it a violation of the Geneva Convention? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Besides, the Swedes aren't really all that obnoxious. I can think of better candidates, as groups, for mashing.
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Timothy the Obscure
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I loved spinach when I was a kid. My mother tells of feeding me Gerber baby food creamed spinach, and says that she was almost gagging as she spooned it into my mouth. I was lapping it up.
I liked liver too.
I didn't develop a taste for oysters until much later, however.
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Laura
General nuisance
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
quote:
Originally posted by Laura:
Never give up! Never surrender!
By Grabthar's hammer, by the Sons of Worvan, you shall be avenged!
I hoped someone would catch that.
Ha! Now you must take the Geek Test. Alas, I scored a 40.8 - Total Geek.
I was dumped at a dance, I attend academic lectures outside of school and I know the odd/even rule about Star Trek movies.
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Rossweisse
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Alas, I am only a Major Geek.
But I'm working on it.
Rossweisse // if only they had one for "can name all the Valkyries..."
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Alfred E. Neuman
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Alas! Not as geeky as I aspire..only 33.1 ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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KenWritez
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Ah, me. 44.579% = Major Geek. I've always considered myself more of an honorary geek that a true Geek, but perhaps there's a little bit of real Geek inside me.
(And no, I'm not talking about the cannibalism thread! Sheesh, you people....)
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Kepler's Puppet
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Oh my! 50.4931 = Super Geek (better start gaming to bring up the score)
And I am rather fond of spinach.
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
Alas, I am only a Major Geek.
Total Geek.
Then again, I am a technical writer.
How many of you know who Jakob Nielsen is? Or care?
How many know what a MIF file is?
Wrote his first computer program in 11th Grade? Back in 1970. Using paper tape and a TTY on a dial-up to MacAuto.
Know what RPN is? And prefer it.
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Am I the only one in horror at the power games involved because of SPINACH? I'm afraid the victory will only be short lived and your children will wreak terrible and exact revenge on you because of it. And you will rue the day you ever started this battle because your children WILL win. It is inevitable.
I talk from experience...
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babybear
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Shall I just say that I got over 60%. And that was because the test had such huge sections on D&D, role play games and comics. Not all geeks are into that stuff. If it had tested me on computers then I would have scored quite a bit higher.
But anyway, that is beside the point. Laura, which did you force your children to eat spinach? Do they get to force you to eat food that you don't like?
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Originally posted by babybear:
But anyway, that is beside the point. Laura, which did you force your children to eat spinach? Do they get to force you to eat food that you don't like?
"Oxalic acid is this same oxalic acid that gives spinach its slightly bitter taste, which is prized by some while others find it off-putting, another issue with kids. The taste buds of the young haven’t fully matured, and processing even slightly bitter flavors can be a shocking and unforgettable experience." From this site.
Forcing your children to eat something that they cannot help finding deeply unpleasant doesn't, however, make you a Nazi, Laura, you'll be pleased to know. For further details on nazism and the frightening rise in neo-nazism today, see, for example, the Anti-Nazi League site.
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PhilA
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I have a different problem with kids at meal times.
I have three daughters. Rebecca, age 7, Bethany age 6 and her twin sister Rochelle.
Rebecca will eat anything - except cheese. Bethany will eat anything - except mushrooms.
Rochelle will eat anything other than beans, chips, fish fingers, tomato ketchup, burgers and most other junk food.
Getting them to eat vegetables is all too easy - they ask for them!!!!!!!! I don't know what to do, I feel like a failure as a Father, I cannot get my kids to pig out on junk food.
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MrPiccolo
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18% I'm either a geek failure : or a well-adjusted individual with a social life!
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cocktailgirl
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Hurrah! Only 3% geek (maybe because I didn't understand most of the questions in the test).
Laura: my mum used to pay my sister to eat peas. Have you thought of going down that route?
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Sioni Sais
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Less Geeky than you Mr Piccolo: 15.58%. That probably disqualifies me from using BB's and the rest. I'm sure it explains why I need help with my PC and couldn't assist chive to get the right version of java for her PC (Monday or Tuesday I think. Hope I'm off your deathlist chive ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
re: Children and spinach. You can blame Papa Bush for that. He was and presumably still is famously anti-spinach and got into a scrape with the US Spinach Growers Association (or whatever it is called) for saying so.
I think his tirade went:
"I hated spinach when I was a boy and I was forced to eat it. I was told 'It's broccoli dear' but I knew it was spinach. Now I am president no one is going to tell me to eat it."
What Barabara thought about that I never found out.
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quote:
Originally posted by Rossweisse:
quote:
Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
...torture them with some mashed swede.
Can you DO that? Isn't it a violation of the Geneva Convention?
Besides, the Swedes aren't really all that obnoxious. I can think of better candidates, as groups, for mashing.
Why, thank you Rossweisse!
No mashing today then.
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Padingtun Bear.
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Gosh - 56%. That makes me an extreme geek, but probably only because of a highly introverted upbringing, literary parents and a masters in Physics. Plus, I married a geek, so that helps.
I can't be the only one that finds spinach just a little bitter? I remember with passion that day I promised myself that I'd never eat anything I didn't want to, ever again. I was 18, and had just left home! No spinach since then...
I still do resent my mum a bit telling me 'Well, life isn't fair sweetie' when I complained about being made to wash up/eat spinach/eat prawns/clean bathrooms* (*delete as applicable). It was true, but that didn't mean it had to be true in our house.
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Flausa
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I only once remember refusing to eat something. It was a spaghetti dish of some sort, but the sauce had a smell and flavour that I just could not injest. My dad did the "you will sit here until you eat this" routine. He went from upset to angry to fuming, but I just couldn't do it. He finally threatened spanking, so I took a few bites and then ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif) . I was THEN spanked and brought out for family Bible study time. I have only smelled something similar to that dish once since then, and I immediately started gagging.
But my dad was the ultimate food Nazi. On several occasions he would force my sister and I to eat hot peppers without the aid of any "cooling" devices. If we cried, refused, or otherwise protested, we were spanked. I also used to love ketchup, so much so that I would eat it by itself. He once gave me a large spoonful of hot sauce and told me it was ketchup.
Anybody want his phone number? I'm sure he could explain the fine art of getting your children to eat anything, anytime, anywhere.
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We've mostly avoided food fights. Mostly. But there are other possibilities for parental fascism. Flashback:
The Amosling, aged three is playing in the bathtub. She pours a mug of water over the book I am trying to read. I hoick her out of the tub, wrap her in a towel, and head for her room. Furiously she squinches up her little face, sticks out her bottom lip and says: ' Mother, I am like Jesus suffering on the cross. And you, Mother, are like Adolf Hitler.'
Nowadays I'm known as the Collar Fetishist and Makeup Nazi. As in 'Please straighten your collar, or do you want me to do it? One of your pocket-flaps needs to be untucked.' 'Please go into the bathroom and take off half of that eyeliner. Neatly.'
Laura, yours aren't yet at the 'Have you eaten any breakfast?' stage yet, are they? And being boys, they may never be.
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Miffy
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Gently fry finely chopped onions in a little oil and curry powder. Add spinach and fry ditto. Once it starts to go limp add a couple of beaten eggs and chick peas. Serve with cous-cous or rice. Works a treat on my lot and they're confirmed green veg haters.
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Less Geeky than you Mr Piccolo: 15.58%. That probably disqualifies me from using BB's and the rest. I'm sure it explains why I need help with my PC and couldn't assist chive to get the right version of java for her PC (Monday or Tuesday I think. Hope I'm off your deathlist chive )
Sioni: I scored higher than you at 16.96252% (love the spurious accuracy) - but you're a computer techie, so how can you possibly score less than me??? If there hadn't been all the Star Trek stuff, I doubt I would have even reached Geek status - must be my advancing years
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Rev per Minute:
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
Less Geeky than you Mr Piccolo: 15.58%. That probably disqualifies me from using BB's and the rest. I'm sure it explains why I need help with my PC and couldn't assist chive to get the right version of java for her PC (Monday or Tuesday I think. Hope I'm off your deathlist chive )
Sioni: I scored higher than you at 16.96252% (love the spurious accuracy) - but you're a computer techie, so how can you possibly score less than me??? If there hadn't been all the Star Trek stuff, I doubt I would have even reached Geek status - must be my advancing years
I work in IT but I'm on the Information side of things, not the Technology! QR and Testing are my specialities.
Your Star Trek stuff may well have taken you over the Geek threshold. The only one I could answer was the "Name 5 characters" and I got those from the bridge crew of the original series. I don't like SF and detest Hobbitism so I only scored a bare Geek through quizzes and trivia.
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chukovsky
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I was a spinach hater, but a Good Girl™ (believe it or not), so would struggle to get a few mouthfuls down. It didn't help that my mum grew her own, let it grow really, really old, and didn't wash it properly, so it was bitter AND gritty.
Fast forward to about 20 years later and I'm happily eating spinach and assorted other spinach-like leaves (I think one of them is rape, or possibly chard, and another is cassava leaves), but with onion and tomato. The (Tanzanian) cook on hearing how my mum used to cook spinach throws up her hands in horror and says "Well that's not too surprising! Everyone knows children don't like spinach cooked like that! It's horrible!"
I'll now eat it quite happily if it's cooked nicely, but still won't eat my mum's...
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"Spinach is very good for you. The University of Arkansas says so."
"So what? We don't live in Arkansas!"
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Marvin the Martian
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I can't remember the last time I ate spinach. It sure wasn't by choice. Foul stuff.
Then again, I don't eat lettuce, cucumber, cauliflower, sprouts or cabbage either. About the only vegetables I eat on a regular basis are potatoes and carrots, though I'm partial to the odd parsnip or mashed swede (sorry Light ) occasionally.
As to the "dinner wars", my parents gave up very quickly. I guess it helped that my brother loved all that stuff, so he got more greens and I got more tatties and carrots
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