Did your parents ever try to tell you that you didn't like things you knew you did?

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melissa-dallas

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Mama tried to tell us we didn't like Cap'n Crunch cereal when we were little. We knew we loved it, preferable straight out of the box without milk.

Every year when we went to the County Fair Daddy would try to tell us we didn't like those bright red sticky candy apples. We positively lusted after one of those apples. I know he really just didn't want the sticky handprints & red stains in the car!

 
My mom was famous for this.

The one I remember most was that she swore I didn't like blueberry pie (my favorite).

But the opposite was true, as well. She was adamant that we liked stuff we didn't, and I don't mean "honey, you really DO like broccoli". She swore my favorite cake was this mayonnaise cake (that she made with Spin Blend) that was nasty. Every birthday she would make me that cake. I finally gave up telling her I didn't like it.

 
chinese. or EYEtalian. or anything mostly non-meat and potatoes or non-German.

Until we got older and more bold with our meal suggestions.

 
On the other hand, I really really hated canned asparagus no matter how much I was told I loved it!

 
My parents couldn't believe I liked sushi, but I think it's a generational thing.

Weird, since my family went to the same Japanese place in California every month for years but always stuck to teriyakis and tempuras.

 
Bub would jokingly tell my stepkids that they wouldn't like sushi

and it was too expensive. He was actually trying to get them to try it, and it worked. My stepdaughter and I still sneak out and indulge in a sushi lunch every so often.
With the restaurant-lacking aspect to our town, we have a very good sushi bar in a Japanese restaurant here. Now if we only had some decent Chinese and Thai food, not to mention Mexican. Sigh.

 
Um, Bette Midler? This was a futile campaign, a half dozen years after they failed to convince me

that I wanted to be a priest.

They had long accepted that when it came to food, I liked EVERYTHING.

 
"I know EYE-ty food when I hear it, Evelyn. It's all them 'INI' food!."

Linguini, Fettucini, Zucchini. I want AMERICAN food, dammit I want FRENCH fries!

(Paul Dooley in my favorite coming of age film, "Breaking Away.")

 
As for your penance, my child, that'll be three jars of Fig jam and two of Mulberry

 
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