I grew up in a family where we sat down at the table five nights a week to eat dinner together. Now in most families, if you didn't like the food your mom made for dinner that night you didn't eat. At least, that's how the majority of my friends families worked. In my family, things were a little different. Let's just say I was a bit spoiled growing up. If I didn't like the food my mom made, she would go out of her way to make me a meal that she knew I would like. Typically that would be one of 3 different food groups; pizza, chicken nuggets, or the good ol' PB&J. This may or may not have something to do with me, now at 21 years of age, being one of the pickiest eaters I've ever heard of.
Since I grew up here in the United States I have become used to these “normal” foods I eat every day. However, what seems normal to me, might seem completely strange to someone on the other side of the world. We think of foods that are “gross” like described in the article we were assigned to read, but to other cultures and other groups of people, those foods are the norm. It's all a matter of what you've grown up with and what you've been exposed to.
Sargenti, Sara. “Top Seven Deadly Foods: Gross or Tasty?” ABCNews. 19 Oct. 2009.
I kind of feel I can really relate to you because my mom use to cook a lot of basic American food and almost all the time it was food my siblings and I really liked. My grandma use to cook all the time for us as well and she use to spoil me as well because if she made something I didn’t like she would also go out her way to make me something else I actually liked. So I must say I was a little spoiled as well and although I am way more open with foods now than when I was a kid, I am still very picky. Like if there’s any food that that has a bad smell I won’t eat or even if I just think I wouldn’t like it by its looks I would try it. I just tend to find myself thinking to more of the American food with exceptions for some Asian foods and some Mexican foods. Also as a kid my two favorite foods were chicken nuggets and especially pizza. I just thought it was funny when I read your post because I am the one who is also getting criticized for being too picky of a eater, so its glad to see there is someone else out there the same way LOL.
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