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KBE: Picky Eating (w/Prizes!) [ENDED!]
Post a blog post, or picture here, in which you theorize about picking eating, or face your own picky eating habits!
If you post a video, post it under "Beast Videos" and entitle the video KBE: Picky Eating!
Good luck, be creative, and have fun!
Contest Rules:
Post a blog post, video, or picture, in which you theorize about picking eating, or face your own picky eating habits.
Contest Winners:
1-a. Most creative or memorable picture or video.
1-b. Most thought provoking or interesting idea or theory behind why people are picky eaters (video or blog post).
Prizes:
-Each winner will receive a shout-out from Rhett and Link in an upcoming vlog.
-Also, each winner gets to give Rhett and Link any tasteful and random phrase to say in an upcoming vlog. Good luck Mythical Beasts!
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Permalink Reply by Rick Elwood (Bungisngis) on
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I have always been the type to try most any food my parents always told me when I was young "try it you don't know if you like it until you try then if you don't like it you don't have to eat it but at least try it first. Then during a trip to the Philippines I wanted to try one of there delicacy it is called Balut, it is a duck egg that has a 18 week old embryo and is then hard boiled. My first reaction to seeing it was.......well I think you can see in the pictures. After seeing my fiancée and her younger sisters enjoying them I didn't want to look like a wimp so I tried thinking it would be so bad tasting, but after I ate it I noticed it wasn't so bad it tasted almost like a hard boiled egg and roast duck both which I like.
This all made me think, I believe some people don't like certain foods is they are told when there young, they don't taste good or see adults not like them or say there bad and it leaves an impression on them the food taste bad and there mind then takes over and makes them have a reaction like mine when I was looking at the Balut before I tasted it, but as I said my fiancée and her sisters thought nothing of eating it because they had eaten Balut since they were very young and told it was good and good for them.
I've attached a series of pictures showing my reaction to looking at the Balut and when I first put it in my mouth. To anyone that is ever in the Philippines and wants to try it I would offer this advice, don't look at it or eat it in a dark room the look is bad but the taste is nothing like you would expect.
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Permalink Reply by Lafondtightus on
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I think that parents would like to make their kids eat the same things they like so they force kids to eat them early on in childhood. Then kids still don't like them. Maybe they would have like them, but since they were forced to they hate them and become a picky eater.
-Lafawndatitus (Mythical beast name)
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Permalink Reply by Lindssay on
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People are picky eaters because of bad experiences. For example, I always check a box of raisins before I eat one. This is due to the fact that once I reached into a box of raisins without looking. After I ate one of the raisins, I looked inside the box and discovered that it was full of maggots. In fact, I prefer not to eat raisins any more. I pick the raisins out of stuffing.
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Permalink Reply by sam r (flashlading) on
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here a link to my vid http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjyjGm2l3Uc
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Permalink Reply by Hardy Hurr on
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My theory is simple why I don't like coconut. It looks like dandruff. Dandruff looks like lice. Enough said.
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Permalink Reply by linds (elesQuig) on
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Picky eating takes over taste buds of millions of people here's what I think:
1. This is the number one reason I think is for picky eating: bad experience. Say, you dislike carrots. Well, chances are, when you were young, all your parents did with carrots buy them frozen which kills alot of flavor, steam them, put on salt, then serve it as a side dish. That doesn't add much flavor and all you taste is carrot, and salty nutrients. Not very appetising. Or if it's not a vegetable, say ketchup (which I absolutely hate). In many school cafeterias kids like to do nasty dares with food, such as put ketchup on their cheetos. That image could make you cringe at the mere sight of ketchup.
2. The second theory behind picky eating I have is word association, say you don't like sweet pickles. ( which applies to me). Sweetness doesn't seem like should apply to a pickle. That would turn you off. Other examples of this are honey mustard, pickled anything, cream cheese, corn on the cob and many others.
3. My final theory behind picky eating is kids not being put in the kitchen. Studies show that kids appreciate food more when they helped prepare it. I guess i am living proof of that one. I used to hate veggies. period. I started cooking and I still hated veggies. I cooked more, watched food network, and cooked more. Then I was a lover of all veggies. Even brussels sprouts.
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Permalink Reply by James (Phoenixaurus) Busvlogger on
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Greetings Beasts! I finally submitted my video at 2:46a.m. while feeding a baby! If I win I'll tell her some day about the part she played in building this great kommunity.
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Stone on
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I don't eat chicken on the bone (aka Fried Chicken), b/c when I was a little girl, my big brother told me that it was like killing the chicken again to eat it off the bone. Ever since then it makes me sick to eat anything off the bone. just the thought of me killing something again just makes me not want to eat it. My husband thinks I am crazy, but I just can not do it. It is tenders or nothing for me at KFC!
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Permalink Reply by Valerie.G (Rainbow Zebra) on
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I put up a blog post with my picky eating theory....
Picky Eating and the Case of the Insensitive Taste Buds
My cousin (who is a very picky eater) insists that people who are picky eaters have super-sensitive taste buds, enabling them to taste bad flavors that other people can't. However, I'm not convinced; I think the reverse could be true as well.....
It is my opinion that people who are not picky eaters are the ones with super-sensitive taste buds. I don't consider myself a picky eater, and I base my theory on the fact that some of my favorite foods are things that many picky eaters won't touch; e.g., sour cream, cottage cheese, sauerkraut, green beans, tomatoes, etc. Super-sensitive taste buds allow people to taste and enjoy the often unique and superb flavor in many foods.
Following this pattern of thought, persons who are unfortunate enough to have insensitive taste buds are just not capable of experiencing the full flavor and goodness of certain foods, which ultimately leads to their dislike of these foods.
While there are many attributing factors that can create a "picky eater", I do believe that some picky eating habits are learned or "inherited", for example if a parent refuses to eat a certain food, it can cause their child to dislike/refuse to eat the food. Many people can also develop an aversion to certain foods if they have it while--or just before--they are sick. Fear of trying something new or unknown, or simply a strange color (green, etc) can also be a factor.
As for children who are picky eaters, as they grow up they are sometimes able to overcome any learned picky eating habits they might have. Often with maturity comes an increased sensitivity of the taste buds; enabling them to taste flavors which they previously could not and enjoy foods that as children they did not like.
Bottom line: Although some picky eating habits are learned behavior, my main theory is that minor or major (depending on the severity of the case) insensitivity of the taste buds causes picky eating. Unfortunately, this condition essentially robs these poor people (aka "picky eaters") of being able to fully enjoy--or even tolerate--particular foods which in reality are actually quite good.
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Permalink Reply by Link on
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THAT is GROSS! So your theory is that if I watch loved ones enjoying this, that I will enjoy it too?!
Rick Elwood (beme2day) said:I have always been the type to try most any food my parents always told me when I was young "try it you don't know if you like it until you try then if you don't like it you don't have to eat it but at least try it first. Then during a trip to the Philippines I wanted to try one of there delicacy it is called Balut, it is a duck egg that has a 18 week old embryo and is then hard boiled. My first reaction to seeing it was.......well I think you can see in the pictures. After seeing my fiancée and her younger sisters enjoying them I didn't want to look like a wimp so I tried thinking it would be so bad tasting, but after I ate it I noticed it wasn't so bad it tasted almost like a hard boiled egg and roast duck both which I like.
This all made me think, I believe some people don't like certain foods is they are told when there young, they don't taste good or see adults not like them or say there bad and it leaves an impression on them the food taste bad and there mind then takes over and makes them have a reaction like mine when I was looking at the Balut before I tasted it, but as I said my fiancée and her sisters thought nothing of eating it because they had eaten Balut since they were very young and told it was good and good for them.
I've attached a series of pictures showing my reaction to looking at the Balut and when I first put it in my mouth. To anyone that is ever in the Philippines and wants to try it I would offer this advice, don't look at it or eat it in a dark room the look is bad but the taste is nothing like you would expect.
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Permalink Reply by Joan Kilna (Arboreal Octopus) on
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There is a difference between picky eating and not liking some kind of food. Someone who always turns down new food experiences, someone who wants to know every single ingredient even though they don't have allergies, or someone who tosses out whole categories of food because of one bad experience is a picky eater. We all have our own likes and dislikes, but the question is one of range and spirit of adventure. I got some mustard greens from a local farmer last week and when I cooked them, my whole family hated them. I gave the rest to my aunt, because she'd never had mustard greens either. She loved them. Are we picky? I'd say no, because we've also tried arugula, mazuna, and kale for the first time ever and loved them.
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< Even brussels sprouts.
Brussels sprouts are cabbages and fall under the Taster/nonTaster genetic marker. Those of you who like cooked cabbage and Brussels sprouts are not tasting what Tasters taste. http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/traits/ptc/
Other than that, I agree with you.
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