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   margueritem said, 3 months ago

   Mom, that is brilliant

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   rayannina said, 3 months ago

   It’ll make millions, I tell ya. Millions.

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   ♠Lonewolf♠ said, 3 months ago

   Go, Mom, go! It’s about time you got back at him!

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   Destiny23 said, 3 months ago

   Just wait till he hits his teen years – you’ll look back fondly at the time before he emptied the fridge in a single gulp! (c.f. “Zits”…)

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   JHSayers said, 3 months ago

   “Now with less flavor” … heh.

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   grazer said, 3 months ago

   My ex had that recipe.

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   jestrfyl said, 3 months ago

   Two words - Toe Foo. It is bland, mushy, and takes up space without introducing significant flavor. Picky Eaters, as your parents to stock up on Toe Foo - sold wherever people who don;t care shop.

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   dianecliff said, 3 months ago

   Sounds like my son….. It doesn’t always change when they hit the teen years - he’s 15 and still is picky like Petey!

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   ArthurAllen said, 3 months ago

   Futurama had “Bachelor Chow–Now with flavor!”

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    cleokaya said, 3 months ago

    My cousin has two daughters that, when young, would go to a restaurant and having found nothing on the menu that they wanted to eat, would order noodles with butter.

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    JanCinVV said, 3 months ago

    jestrfyl: Are you referring to tofu, otherwise known as soy bean curd? Nasty stuff, but I guess it’s a diet staple in some cultures.

    Last week’s Dirty Jobs program was about making tofu. It reminded me a great deal of the cheesemaking process at a cheddar cheese factory I toured in Oregon.

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    kirbey said, 3 months ago

    oh I love tofu… You just never had it served well

    but for Petey Chow … I smell money !

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    BC13 said, 3 months ago

    I can’t buy that. I like texture and flavor - it’s just that there are some textures and flavor best left untasted.

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    bald 716 said, 3 months ago

    hummm,

    go for it mom, maybe even have flavoring for it, like jelly beans or licorice

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    BIG PINK MOM said, 3 months ago

    My youngest brother at age 44 still would not let different foods touch each other on the plate. A nephew and my grandson are the same.
    All three are extremely smart I.Q. wise, but strange about food.

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    fritzoid said, 3 months ago

    openminded, they might be Aspies…

    Tofu in itself is about the blandest food imaginable, but it’s good at absorbing the flavors of what it’s cooked in.

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    sredman said, 3 months ago

    Her first mistake is giving him a choice. I would tell him like I tell my own son, finish all you food (or at least most of it).

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    fritzoid said, 3 months ago

    sredman, that’s a battle she couldn’t win, with Petey as her adversary. Petey’s very good at immobility, and if she said “You aren’t leaving that table until you’ve cleaned your plate”, he’d happily sit there for days…

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    BIG PINK MOM said, 3 months ago

    Hmmm… perhaps I am a little Aspie too. When challenged by my dad to eat the GD cottage cheese or never leave the table, I choked it down and promply vomitted it back up.
    Sorry if that is too much info.
    Fritzoid- is voluntary mutism an Aspberger’s trait too? If so, I’m there. I can be silent for a long time when it suits me.

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    JUJUBEANIE said, 3 months ago

    bald 716:
    
    that would ruin the whole point of the part where she said,” a bland bowl of nothingness”

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    fritzoid said, 3 months ago

    Asperger’s has all sorts of annoying symptoms, not all of which need be present to qualify you for the club. It’s just far enough along the autism spectrum to make Aspies seem “totally wierd” to the normal and boring…

    Social phobia or awkwardness, hyper-literalism, expanded vocabularies (Aspies know when there’s a word that’s precisely what’s called for, and by God they’ll want to use it!)…

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    comics4brown said, 3 months ago

    great idea Mom – but maybe it should be a “golden raisin” – sort of like a special prize?!

23. 

    William Wilkerson said, 3 months ago

    Petey Otterpop is such a beautifully disturbed child…