#114 – Veggie
Posted on May 24, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
It striking how some adults revert to a 3 year old when they are around vegetables. I saw someone refuse to eat a taco at Taco Bell because it had lettuce on it. I saw a “man” refuse to eat pizza because it had olives. “But olives are a vegetable!” “So pick them off, there’s only about 5 per slice.” “But I’ll know they were there!”
Tags: knife, steve, vegetables
to be fair, I can still taste olives on a pizza even after they have been removed, that’s why it’s best to order the pizza without them. Not that I’d refuse to eat a pizza on those grounds though (though there are some pizzas I won’t eat).
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. The olive oil gets onto the pizza and you can still taste it after the olive has been removed.
I’m Vegan, so I kinda have to eat the vegetables.
I will eat pretty much anything put in front of me. This is unfortunate, because it means my wife will make turkey soup every thanksgiving, knowing that I will eat it even though I don’t like it. Did I mention she makes enough of it to feed a small country?
About the only thing I refuse is mint. It is the only thing I find truly revolting. When I was a kid I actually threw up at a dental hygienist who didn’t give me the choice of flavors and just assumed everyone likes mint.
I actually have veggies as snacks, now. I make up a veggie platter every day and we can just munch on it as we play games or do housework or whatever.
It’s done wonders for my diet! I’ve always been a “lazy” junk food snacker – I eat it because it’s convenient. When it’s easier to grab some broccoli than it is to go *get out* the tortilla chips and *pour* the salsa, strange things happen…
I actually like vegetables, but they tend to taste bad when they’re cooked.
Even though I don’t like olives either.
If I have a problem with lettuce, it’s because there’s some kind of sour dressing on it. It ruins the taste.
Considering flour, tomato sauce, not to mention beef and dairy cattle eat plant matter, vegetables will get you eventually.
Call any vegetable!
the problem with pizza toppings is often they are diced small and you can`t pick off all of the offending food item especially if it gets buried in melted cheese so you end up tasting it. Im not fond of olives .But what I really hate is mushrooms ;p yuck!
I think your comparison of “picky” people to small children is rather condescending. Some people simply can’t physiologically tolerate certain foods. They’re not just being picky, but have an actual health issue such as allergies or they’re super tasters.
I won’t eat anything with shredded lettuce that comes from a bag (so basically from any fast food restaurant) because the preservatives make it taste NASTY.
I was one of those little kids with a (pitted, black) olive on each finger, and the green-with-pimento are OK with me, too (depending on how much of what kind of juice comes with it.) Olive oil is going to be drizzled on most any pizza from a _real_ recipe, so get ready to enjoy it.
What cracks me up is anchovies; some places don’t understand that they need to chop them fine, scattered all over, or you go along and suddenly get an overdose of salt-fish!
Eating in messhalls cured me of pickiness years and years ago…
— and wouldn’t you know it, my 3rd daughter has a quite active taste sense, and is allergic to cilantro and bell (maybe most) peppers – they give her a headache.
I’m less of a omnivore and more of a scavenger.
Or autism-spectrum or other disorders. I literally cannot swallow more than two bites of refried beans, mashed potatoes, etc. without gagging and vomiting.
On the other hand, those don’t generally correspond to a blanket refusal to eat “vegetables.”
The problem I see with the psychology behind vegetables is the reward/punishment systems set up to enforce kids to eat them. if your mother had said you have to eat all of your meat before you can go to bed, or have dessert, then you may feel there must be something wrong with it. but another thing is how ripe it is, and how it is prepared. If made wrong, it comes out bitter and horrible, but I grew up in a house where my dad cooked all the meals, cooked them to be delicious, and vegetables were not enforced. given the choice between potato chips and raw broccoli or cauliflower, I go for the vegetables every time.
I’ve always found the blanket aversion to vegetables remarkably silly. Many people who have that aversion are the same ones who will look horrified when told a dish is vegetarian, as though vegetarian food always adds something gross instead of just leaving meat out. They won’t even try some foods, simply because they’ve been told those foods are ‘healthy.’ It’s all very silly.
Counting olives as vegetables strikes me as funny, though. Olives are pretty much completely fat.
at least steve will get what’s coming to him.
http://minimumble.thebookofbiff.com/2012/05/30/118-specials/
Two types of people in the world.
The quick… and the hungry.