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I didn't ever hear that because I didn't turn down anything with the exception of peanut butter and green English peas. Was always hungry and ate whatever was offered even if I didn't much like it. Now my brother a year older was fanatic about stuff he wouldn't eat. A partial list: no solid meat (he only ate ground meat and bacon, absolutely no birds, no fish or shellfish, no beans, nothing green, only soup he would eat is with all the solids strained out and he would crumbled up enough crackers in it for a mush, the only eggs he would eat had to be completely scrambled to where there was no hint of white showing. He would eat chili with no onion or anything but meat and red sauce over a bunch of rice. He ate tons of rice, my mother made a dish for him at least twice a week called Spanish rice which was red with tomato sauce and had ground meat in it. If we were traveling he ordered a hamburger with just meat and bread, if it came out with a hint of mayo or pickle he wouldn't eat it. I don't eat rice anymore because I've had my share. He would only eat Cheerios for cereal, no corn flakes, no raisin bran, nothing else. Our father was constantly telling our mother to quit cooking special for him and he would start eating our regular stuff but she kept on.

Strangely enough now at age 71 he will eat steak, shrimp, and fried fish without bones, but still no birds. Still requires rice with bland chili.

My dad used to say that those darn Africans would surely starve if they was dependent on our leftovers. Said a cockroach couldn't make livin in our house. You boys are the eatinest kids I ever saw, you're scarin me half to death, I'm gonna have get a second job.

Made the same remark, got the same results.

Not quite in that way.

I asked for something to play with. My dad cut the pockets out of my pants.

He bought me new pants after I got my first pair of glasses.

Mine was a Fanatic Mormon
and I got the same speech.

My third and last dry season in West Africa was long, a drought, crops failed. The last six months the whole school, me included, was fed by USAID. Rice in white woven plastic sacks “From Houston TX and Crowley LA”.

Rice and sugar water for breakfast, rice and stewed taro leaves for lunch, rice and palm oil for breakfast. A Peace Corps LandRover would deliver 18 tins of tuna to me each month, which I would hide. Ate one every other day, tossed the empties in the bush so no one knew I had them. People in a village share stuff, they woulda thought me very selfish.

I’ve seen American food aid, lived on it, it saves lives.

No comments like that, but we very seldom ate together, and never cooked together

It was millions of starving kids in China that I heard about .

" They'd love to have That..."

Me: Name three...

Funny

From what little I know of you I’d guess that a lot of your mom rubbed off on you Roger. 👍

I ate everything, so the kids in China didn't have a chance with my food.

Our house, "you better eat that, or the others will ,and you go hungry". We had five eating machines, plus my parents, and grandparents! I eat almost anything!

Ironic. I'm in S.Africa for a year. Only two types of blecks. Super skinny (prolly malnourished) and fat. And I mean FAT! Apparently they're tribal and see BBW as a thing. I avoid walking between them and the nearest bag of chips.