September 21 2007: Gag Reflex My Arse!
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Was it terrible of me to forcefeed my brother sushi?
My parents have always been very lenient when it comes to his food choices - as such, he is an incredibly picky eater and his dinner inevitably consists of meat, egg, and rice, while his school lunches are a peanut butter sandwich and peeled apple slices. Breakfast is CocoPops (chocolate cereal), or two minute noodles. Mmm, nutritious. I sure can see all the food groups represented there.
In contrast, I was brought up to eat whatever was put in front of me - and thus depending on how braces-friendly the dish is (nothing too stringy that will get stuck between the metal, nor anything too hard that could break it), will eat almost anything except eggplant. I’ve tried to get into eggplant I really have. It just doesn’t work for me, no matter what sauce you dress it up with.
In any case, I finally got sick of how picky my brother was tonight, so I slapped him around a couple of times, whacked him with a leather belt, threw shoes at him, body slammed him to the wall, etc. etc. (hello Child Protection Agency!), and put a piece of home-made vegetarian sushi on his plate (rice, egg, avocado, cucumber, carrot) with the instructions “EAT IT OR WATCH ME SNAP ALL YOUR HARRY POTTER PS2 GAMES IN HALF!”. He tried his patented gag reflex to get out of eating it (he can make himself gag on command - that’s how he’s gotten past eating healthy foods in the past as my parents fall for it every time), but I replied with “YOU TRY FAKE VOMIT IT UP AND I’LL MAKE YOU EAT YOUR VOMIT - YOU’LL HAVE TO EAT THE SUSHI TWICE!”.
Needless to say, he ate the whole piece of sushi without further complaint or fake attempts at gagging. Tomorrow I’m going to make him eat some bokchoy. I’m planning steamed fish the day after.
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NOT THE HARRY POTTER GAMES!!!!1111 :o
Mmm bokchoy is delicious.
Belinda on September 21 2007 #
Make him salute you too. :P
Jordie on September 21 2007 #
I wish my parents would forcefeed me sushi…alas with them it’s only cabbage soup :(
Nope it wasn’t wrong at all! Go Amanda!
Vera on September 21 2007 #
@Vera - Re: Cabbage Soup
That’s SO Charlie’s family from Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
Belinda on September 21 2007 #
Your brother doesn’t like sushi?! Why, sushi is the best food in the whole wide world! But anyway, that’s progress. I can’t imagine living on peanut butter sandwiches, peeled apple slices, and two minute noodles.
Lexie on September 21 2007 #
If I could beat my brother into eating vegetables, I would. Unfortunately, he could probably snap me in half if I tried stuffing some steamed veggies down his throat.
Why is it that our brothers get away with eating anything and we don’t?
Tracey on September 21 2007 #
Bokchoy and sushi are yum!
Poor brother of yours.
Juice on September 22 2007 #
Gosh. Mmm bokchoy and sushi. I’d eat both willingly O=)
Chien Yee on September 22 2007 #
Better foods = yes. Beatings = no no no!
I’d like to have the steamed fish if your brother won’t take it. XD
Reply: That was hypothetical beatings. Hence, the exaggeration. :P
Aravis on September 22 2007 #
As someone who has certain things that I don’t like, I can understand his side. Sometimes you just don’t like things. And I can’t vouch for the verity of his gag reflex, but I have one and its real. Certain things make me gag and I do throw it up sometimes.
And, from experience, forcing it makes it worse. Because then, not only do you have a taste aversion, you have a mental aversion. I used to be ok with tomatoes. Not great, but ok. But my dad forced it on me every night everytime I visited him and now I can’t eat it. Or lettuce. Or pretty much in those stinkin salads. Now, years later, it isn’t that I wouldn’t. I just can’t, because of that.
Call me crazy but its true. Food for thought (haha! unintended joke!).
Reply: CRAZY!!! But seriously, I believe the fact that he didn’t once try to fake-vomit after my second threat, and that he ate it promptly, shows that it wasn’t a true aversion to healthy foods, more a “I want my meat, egg, and rice thanks, not this vegetable crap”.
Skye on September 22 2007 #
I wish my brother would be afraid of me. He just … isn’t. And would probably kill me if I broke any of his PS2 games … or maybe he would kill himself. Hm.
Zala on September 22 2007 #
I would never be able to force my little brother into anything, unless my parents were very far away and I gain some muscle mass… I push him around sometimes but he complains so easily! I’m always trying to be strict with him, but my parents are lenient.
Kaylee on September 22 2007 #
That is just hilarious. I do believe that these days parents do allow their kids to get away with eating junk food all day. But sushi would have scared even me :P.
When my brother was younger, he would always close his mouth so my mother couldn’t feed him. My mother just pulled on his nose until he had to open his mouth and jammed the food right in. And that is why my brother has such a long nose :D.
And so imagine, you can tell this beautiful force feeding story to your brother’s kids one day!
Nirthikaa on September 22 2007 #
Damn. I’m going to have to try this method on my sister sometime.
Except she eats slightly better than your brother. For one, she loves sushi… as long as it has surimi in it. Heh.
Nellie on September 22 2007 #
Your solution seems to work better than the usual “You’ll thank me when you’re old/older” tactic. :)
Kycoo on September 22 2007 #
Haha classic! I love sushi
Bobbi-lee on September 22 2007 #
I don’t understand how some people cannot eat sushi! I love sushi. In fact, my sister and I have gone to our favorite sushi bar 3 times in 2 weeks.
But at least your brother seems like a pretty normal picky eater. My brother eats just about anything but he does not eat condiments… and he particularly despises ketchup. I think he’s ketchophobic because when we’re having dinner, he can’t even have the ketchup near him!
Felisa on September 22 2007 #
I agree with your methods (how can you find new favourite foods if you always stick to the same things?), but I do sympathise with your brother. If someone tried to force meat on me I would probably have the same reaction. Most of my meat ends up in the dog’s belly anyway, haha. I don’t know if that classifies me as a picky eater, but it makes me feel like one. I have to eliminate over half the menu at a normal restaurant.
But sushi is the best. I wish someone had tried to force feed it to me when I went to Hong Kong. :( I was scared of it back then.
Emily on September 22 2007 #
I don’t get people who practically don’t like any sort of food. Many people (read: my father) consider I’m picky, but there really is a lot I do eat.
As for sushi, if you like rice and fish, and don’t have a problem with (algae? how do you call it in English?), you should enjoy. Yummy yummy sushi.
Damn you, Amanda, for telling us about sushi, I’m hungry now.
Julie on September 22 2007 #