What if kids wouldn't hate vegetables

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• Alduin

  2016-03-14 17:00:05

  I never hated vegetables...
• Odradek

  2016-03-14 17:00:34

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Exactly!
• Alduin

  2016-03-14 17:01:30

  I don't get why people think broccoli is gross. I love broccoli!
• Alduin

  2016-03-14 17:03:19

  Nnnngn, now I'm hungry for some broccoli. I remember drooling when I saw the broccoli-with-cheese thing in Powerpuff Girls, it was great...
• Odradek

  2016-03-14 17:03:55

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Broccoli is great! Adults are just conspiring to convince kids it's gross for no apparent reason!
• Klinotaxis

  2016-03-14 17:08:54

  kill living beings
  

  This is how I felt when I had brussel sprouts the first time
  
• Imipolex G

  2016-03-14 17:31:46

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Even as a chronological adult I still hate vegetables, to be honest
  
  Broccoli is one of the more tolerable ones, though
  
• MetaFour

  2016-03-14 17:46:12

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  I like vegetables better than most fruit. And I have since I was pretty young.
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-03-14 17:48:24

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  I like greens, asparagus aside. It's when you get non-green veggies that we have a problem
• Tanya

  2016-03-14 17:51:37

  Pizza Dog

  I hated my greens, but then again opposed to the meat and other stuff I was served, the greens were served to me just straight from the can quality.

  
  

  Like, here are beans literally just from the can, you're welcome. 
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-03-14 17:58:30

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Beans from a can is life though
• Fossilmaiden

  2016-03-14 19:17:29

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Broccoli is bad, sprouts are worse.
  
• Obā-san

  2016-03-14 19:19:37

  
  

  I wonder about this a lot
• Tanya

  2016-03-14 19:20:08

  Pizza Dog

  Yarrun XIX said:

  Beans from a can is life though

  child!clock disagrees.
• Tachyon

  2016-03-15 13:40:20

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  broccoli has such a mild flavour it's hard for me to understand people disliking it?
  
  sprouts and spinach i can understand, they're a little bitter
  
• Odradek

  2016-03-15 13:47:35

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Apparently the British really like Heinz Baked Beans
• Tachyon

  2016-03-15 13:51:35

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  
  
  no but they're ok, better than supermarket brand, but i was never much a fan of baked beans
  
• Tachyon

  2016-03-15 13:53:01

  ^{i will watch the heck outta this pumpkin patch}
  

  i guess they're the kind of vegetable kids like because they don't taste like a vegetable?  they're ever so slightly sweet
  
  i just don't like the texture much.  same with mushy peas.
  
• lee4hmz

  2016-03-15 17:36:44 edited 2016-03-15 17:37:30

  ⚠ THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS

  what's odd is that you can actually get Heinz Beanz here, packaged according to US regulations and everything (no bodge stickers and whatnot). They're usually in the "British goodies" section, at least at the stores I usually shop. 
• Princess Alice

  2016-03-15 18:01:11

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Most vegetables I was ok with as a kid...the only one that really got to me was peas, and that's more because of the texture than the flavor. To be honest, I still don't like them. It's a weird sensory thing.
• Fossilmaiden

  2016-03-15 18:05:41

  Wee yea erra chs hymmnos mea.
  

  Also bad: Gherkins/pickles/whatever you call them.
• Yarrun XIX

  2016-03-15 18:08:51

  Whores! we want "poems that kill."
  Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
  guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
  and take their weapons leaving them dead

  Pickles are only good in thin slices in a hoagie
• Salix Babylonika

  2016-03-15 22:34:52

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  Tachyon said:

  broccoli has such a mild flavour it's hard for me to understand people disliking it?
  
  sprouts and spinach i can understand, they're a little bitter
  

  the texture of most vegetables makes me literally, actually, vomit. Broccoli is one of the worst for this.
• Tre

  2016-03-15 22:52:15

  
  

  Probably the only time I will be able to say this and have it be on topic: spinach and green beans are both actually pretty good but suffer in the flavor department significantly if you get them canned
  
  My mom switched to fresh spinach a few years ago and it was like night and day
• Anonus

  2016-03-15 23:46:45

  I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat

  canned veggies ;~;
• buttercrispy

  2016-03-15 23:54:53

  there's also the whole kids' tastebuds are more acutely tuned to bitter so they don't poison themselves. Beyond that, I was pretty big on vegetables, but that may have had a lot to do with what I could eat as a colicky infant/toddler.
• Bee

  2016-03-16 01:50:33 edited 2016-03-16 01:51:26

  buttercrispy said:

  there's also the whole kids' tastebuds are more acutely tuned to bitter so they don't poison themselves. Beyond that, I was pretty big on vegetables, but that may have had a lot to do with what I could eat as a colicky infant/toddler.

  This.

  
  

  Also lots of parents will go for cheap canned vegetables, which tend to be slimy foul-tasting green/brown diarrhea with questionable nutritional content.  I hated spinach until the first time I had fresh spinach -- at like, age 15.
• Obā-san

  2016-03-16 01:52:56

  
  

  my mom has always studiously avoided canned vegetables with the exception of canned corn
• Bee

  2016-03-16 01:54:14

  Canned corn at least isn't that bad.  Probably because it's sweeter.

  
  

  Fuck canned everything else though.
• Crystal

  2016-03-16 01:54:14

  Munch munch, chomp chomp...

  I'm pretty fine with canned vegetables, even if they're not preferable.

  
  

  And boring as broccoli is, least it isn't cauliflower.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2016-03-16 01:59:37

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  There is also the fact that children are picky, but don't necessarily dislike *all* of a category of food, but television writers trying to portray that issue tend to generalise because they're lazy or are looking at it from an adult perspective without remembering what it was actually like to be a child.

  
  

  Arthur did this pretty well with D.W.'s hatred of spinach, actually, in that they made it as much about context as anything else. Kudos to them.
• Crystal

  2016-03-16 02:05:59 edited 2016-03-16 02:06:11

  Munch munch, chomp chomp...

  Now I just remember this, which helped with expanding my ice cream and general food tastes in a cute little way, which is nice. Of course, far as ice cream goes I tend to stick to a pattern.