My nieces are not afraid of food. As a matter of fact, they've spoiled me. Now, if I encounter a kid who's a picky eater I immedietly dismiss them as annoying. Mallorie (5) and Julia (4) will eat anything- and I mean ANYTHING. Some of their favorite foods include squid, sea weed, raw vegetables, green beans, carnitas, milanesa, California Rolls, shrimp, pasta, tofu and carmalized onions.
I've always thought that picky eaters weren't exposed to a wide variety of foods growing up and maybe that's why my nieces are so open to all kinds of food. The first years of their life were spent in the Los Angeles area where they had a Mexican babysitter making them arroz con leche one day and then the next, they were eating Japanese food with me at a local hole-in-the-wall.
They really blew my mind today when we went to a Korean restaurant and they ordered tofu dumpling soup. They both dumped kimchee, bean sprouts, raw eggs, sea weed and pickled vegetables into their soup like there was no tomorrow and then they both ate their entire steaming bowl of soup. That wasn't too surprising. What really shocked me was when the waitress brought out two fried fish, head and tail still entact and she informed the girls that they best part of this fish is its eyeballs. Without fail, both girls grabbed chopsticks and went at the fish eyes, each girl sat crunching on an eye as I sat there, stunned.
I'm twenty-three and without kids of my own. Is it normal for kids to like adult food- the weirder the better? Do they eat these things to shock and impress or because they're curious? Do any of you have kids who love food this much?
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