What if kids wouldn't hate vegetables

Odradek

If media created by adults didn't keep telling them to hate vegetables?

Alduin

I never hated vegetables...

Odradek

Exactly!

Alduin

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

Alduin

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

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

Klinotaxis

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

Imipolex G

Even as a chronological adult I still hate vegetables, to be honest

Broccoli is one of the more tolerable ones, though

MetaFour

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

Yarrun XIX

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

Tanya

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

Beans from a can is life though

Fossilmaiden

Broccoli is bad, sprouts are worse.

Obā-san

I wonder about this a lot

Tanya

Yarrun XIX said:

Beans from a can is life though

child!clock disagrees.

Tachyon

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

Apparently the British really like Heinz Baked Beans

Tachyon

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

Tachyon

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

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

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

Also bad: Gherkins/pickles/whatever you call them.

Yarrun XIX

Pickles are only good in thin slices in a hoagie

Salix Babylonika

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

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

canned veggies ;~;

buttercrispy

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

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

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

Bee

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

Fuck canned everything else though.

Crystal

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

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

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.