Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for December 10, 2008

A childhood sin, not eating vegetables: sticking them in pockets, or feeding them to the dog, or hiding them under the meat.

I wonder what Dr.Mel gives the naughty little kids…..radio active coal?

He gives the bad kids a slightly used spleen.

Gweedo Murray says: “Sounds like this Mom knows all the tricks.” Or maybe this daughter? ;-)

margueritem says: A childhood sin, not eating vegetables: sticking them in pockets, or feeding them to the dog, or hiding them under the meat.

You forgot about just spreading them out over the plate so it doesn’t look like as much, or hiding them in the napkin.

Heh. That’s one thing I did right as a parent. I never served the kids vegetables. Just me and my wife. Very good vegetables, I might add, like spinach sauteed with German sweet sour onion, broccoli with curry cheese sauce, gingered carrots, etc. We made the kids beg for their vegetables (and of course, we really did have enough for them).

Now, they didn’t like every kind of vegetable after the first try, but all of them became very fond of a wide variety of healthy roots and greens, and beg for carrots or broccoli instead of Park Sausages.

Ray C says:

Gweedo Murray says: “Sounds like this Mom knows all the tricks.” Or maybe this daughter? ;-)

I liked vegetables, but my sister, however, was a different story. She put peas in her pocket, and my mother found them in the washing machine.

DF: I forgot the napkin trick, and spreading whatever you didn’t like around the plate so it looked like less.

It all depends on how restrictive your definition of “good” is.