had pretty damn abusive parents and of course I was tortured for an extended period and forced to only eat a particular item, which, yeah, I can't stomach since. And it doesn't even have to be something rooted in experience like this. Maybe I sincerely haven't ever even tried
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beets before, and you have a really amazing recipe for beats you just made, and maybe someday I'll try them and love them and come back and want to try that recipe but today I've been really nervous and my stomach is upset and I suspect it'll get worse and leave me full on puking
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if I eat anything but this simple bland sugary comfort food I'm trying to have instead. That's freaking valid and you should let me do it (and that one isn't a real example although I did actually only have beets for the first time like 2 years ago somehow and I've had days since
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where they were the only think I could keep down). Also valid? Me looking at your pasta salad or smelling it and getting enough of an idea what's in there to know without tasting it that I won't like it. Or me just not being in the mood to try this restaurant's famous maki rolls
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even though I love those because I'm just not in the mood for sushi today but hey, you order them yourself. I'll eye your plate appreciatively, but no don't share, I'm good with my soup here. I saw a screenshot of someone's anecdote the other day about reading Green Eggs and Ham
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to their child, who objected halfway through with "he said no, leave him alone," and the stunned parent realizing that, yeah, the whole book is about ignoring someone's clear discomfort and forceful dejection and badgering them and pressuring them into something they don't want.
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Can't find it right now, and searching for it brings up... just a sea of parenting blogs independently arriving at the same conclusion. It's a messed up book that teaches a really horrible lesson, and we really should all stop reading it to our kids. I mean, I'm not going to take
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things to extremes and say "Sam I Am is a rape apologist" but even if we only focus on the most literal of interpretations, we all read this book and a huge chunk of us grew up with these incredibly strong beliefs that if someone says "I'm allergic to pepper" it's not only OK but
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doing them a favor to just park the grinder over their plate for a full minute. So yeah, maybe rethink that lesson, don't pass it on to any more generations, and stop trying to control or judge what other people eat. And hell, going even MORE literal, meat and eggs turning green
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is a good indicator of spoilage. You should really throw those out, they'll probably make you sick. But I'm not going to push the matter. You do you. Just don't cross-contaminate and offer alternative menu options for people.
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Great thread. So much this. Also IBS.
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