Picky Eating Adults acting like 3 year olds.
by Liv | Published on July 6th, 2010, 12:31 pm | Food
This is what Heather Hill eats: French fries, pasta with butter or marinara sauce, vegetarian pizza, cooked broccoli, corn on the cob and cakes and cookies without nuts.
And what she doesn't eat? Pretty much anything else.
Ms. Hill is what you might call a picky eater. But she isn't a child. She's a 39-year-old mother of three who runs her own business in Raleigh, N.C. She says she is unable to eat other foods. "When I was younger it was cute," Ms. Hill says. "Now it's embarrassing."
Amber Scott, of Enon, Ohio, has eaten only about 10 different foods since she was 3 years old. She describes foods that don't appeal to her as if they are inedible objects. "You wouldn't put a handful of grass in your mouth and chew it up," says the 29-year-old. "I feel the same way about spaghetti." cite
I find food being one of life's wonderful joys. (Sometimes too much.) The ability to be able to eat French, Welsh, Japanese, or whatever food, when I can't afford to jump a plane and fly there is a glorious thing to me. I can experience culture, not with my eyes or ears, but my mouth.
The idea to not have tried some of the things I've tried in the last few years (or even a lifetime) seems mind-boggling, yet Shannon and I know people who haven't even eaten cheddar cheese, or Taco Bell. Friends who think Mexican food is nothing but fajitas and are way too spicy. God forbid you suggest Hungarian cabbage rolls, Haggis, laverbread and cockles, or Moroccan tajine. I can honestly say if you're only eating 10 different foods then you're definately missing out on probably the greatest joys of the human experience: food.