I made the mistake of telling them to send it over there to them ONCE. Got a split lip for that bit of smartness. I was 11 before I learned to keep comments like that to myself.
Did you hear that when you were growing up???
If you don't stop that you'll go blind!
My mom would tell me " so you don't want to eat this? I'm going to send you to live with Mary-lee and Jitterbug". They were a large black family down the road.
I'd shut up and eat up.
Avoid the smart comeback at all cost, mom would bust you open for that instantly.
I heard that growing up but not so much directed at me but rather one of my 4 siblings. I wasn’t too picky and I ate everything…a lot of everything. I remember one night mom said that to me and I responded that if mom wanted to pay half I’d pay the other half of the shipping to send it to the starving kids in Africa but, I warned her, despite their dying from starvation I doubted they were hungry enough to eat this gross food. I was surprised by mom and dad’s response…..dad immediately broke out laughing and mom had to excuse herself so that I didn’t witness her laughing too. I guess it was my delivery that evening that saved my ass…
Nope...it was the starving kids in China.
Nope...it was the starving kids in China.
That’s what Wifey said they told her!
Nope...it was the starving kids in China.
Yep.
Far as I know, they are still starving too.
When was a kid it was "Clean your plate. Think of the starving children in China."
Uhhh, they're
still starving, aren't they?
L.W.
^^^^^ Great minds!
Them poor Chinese people.
Them poor Chinese people.
They could afford food if Biden would quit taking all their money.
No. "Clean your plate" was it. If it took too long the egg timer got broke out. Let that expire once while staring at cold Brussel sprouts. Got ass whooped and sat back down. Timer restarted. I cleaned my plate.
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
Sounds like you had a nice mom.
What's that like?
Not possible to feed all of them, and more popping out every second. There will be a reckoning soon!
We will be like that soon if we don’t stop all the Meskins from coming in. That’s why there is some shortages now.
If you don't stop that you'll go blind!
Ok I’ll just do it until I need glasses! 😉
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
Catholic?
My folks were more worried about the kids in China.
Maybe they hadn’t heard about them kids in Africa. ?
Nope...it was the starving kids in China.
My mom was partial to the starving chillrins in India....
I would like to see an African attempting to choke down Brussel sprouts. Their parents would be telling them that there are starving children in Afghanistan dying for Brussel sprouts. Of course they would tell their children that there are starving children in Ethiopia who would love to eat them. And so on and so forth.
Bottom line, Brussel sprouts suck and my parents lied to me.
They have been starving forever yet there is still more than before. On the other subject I had lasic surgery and never missed a stroke. Edk
I got my beating this way...
Mom said, "Eat that. There are children in Europa who are starving."
I replied, "So if I eat this, how does it help them?"
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
Catholic?
No Baptist.
Our house, it was the Ethiopian kids.
Decades later, I had a good friend who was Ethiopian. We went out to lunch once, and I ordered an oyster po' boy. He didn't know what an oyster was, so I gave him one to try. He chewed a second and sprinted for the door, gagging.
He was real embarrassed afterwards and apologetic but stunned anyone would willingly consume something so nasty.
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
Catholic?
No Baptist.
My Catholic great Aunt was always mailing stuff to poor people.
I guess we did too when we were young and Catholic.
We never had any fights over food.
Nope...it was the starving kids in China.
Yep.
I got my beating this way...
Mom said, "Eat that. There are children in Europa who are starving."
I replied, "So if I eat this, how does it help them?"
Good one
Was China for me too.
After WWII we got a lot of letters from the part of Germany our ancestors were from. Help us, send money, etc. Didn't send any money.
I don’t remember where the starving kids were but we got that a couple of times. 😊
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
Sounds like you had a nice mom.
What's that like?
At my Mom's funeral 8 yrs ago, there were more people there I had never met than ones I knew. She touched a lot of lives as an RN and Teacher.
Was China here, too.
Thought it was bullshit.
Then one day, mom cooked up that La Choy chop suey, from the can.
One look, one bite, and the China thing began ta make sense.
@styhunter
Sounds like a life well lived!
Yep, my mother would say, and I paraphrase, "we should be ashamed of ourselves when there are all those starving kids in Africa".
If you don't stop that you'll go blind!
That's one true. I haven't stopped and I'm going blind.
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
Kind, thoughtful woman
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.
I made the mistake of telling them to send it over there to them ONCE. Got a split lip for that bit of smartness. I was 11 before I learned to keep comments like that to myself.
Did you hear that when you were growing up???
Made the same remark, got the same results.
If you don't stop that you'll go blind!
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.
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
Catholic?
No Baptist.
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
I made the mistake of telling them to send it over there to them ONCE. Got a split lip for that bit of smartness. I was 11 before I learned to keep comments like that to myself.
Did you hear that when you were growing up???
It was millions of starving kids in China that I heard about .
" They'd love to have That..."
Me: Name three...
My mom never told us stuff like that. What she did do was take her extra money and buy clothes at garage sales and toothpaste, soap, toilet paper, and stuff like that, then once every couple of months she'd drive down to Mexico by herself to give it out to kids and poor people in need.
Sounds like you had a nice mom.
What's that like?
At my Mom's funeral 8 yrs ago, there were more people there I had never met than ones I knew. She touched a lot of lives as an RN and Teacher.
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.