Posted on 03/07/2007 4:24:40 AM PST by Chi-townChief
I have to admit. Friday is date night and we always go out and I have been eating shrimp. No tuna salad on the Chili's menu. But it's what a friend of mine calls a God tap. It's stopping in our usual routine and remembering our Lord.
Fish sticks really ARE torture. I think they're the reason so many people grow up to dislike fish. :(
actually my kids don't mind the shrimp poppers which are mostly breading anyway, and they are light years better than the fishsticks. they won't eat real fish, which i did grow up to love. they have problems with the texture of it. i can do real shrimp for them, but they aren't wild about those either. i think Kung Pao shrimp from PFChangs would do the trick though! it is a real drag trying to eat out on Fridays in lent, and my husband will NOT eat seafood.
Nothing, Lent isn't in the bible.
I love fish and seafood of all descriptions, and fortunately got the "real thing" at home; fish sticks are mostly a bad memory from school lunches.
The one thing I couldn't quite face as a kid was lobster, and I remember my father trying to get me to eat in in a restaurant along with him - it was cheaper than the steak I preferred. That tells you what a LONG time ago this was. :)
i was talking to someone yesterday about Lent and she asked if i did the Sunday rule, meaning Sundays are a day off from the lenten sacrifice, i said NO, that's CHEATING, but i have heard people mention such a rule. i think it's bogus though and misses the point of lent. i have no problem going out and eating seafood, but my husband is an extremely picky eater and there would be nothing for him to eat out. i can't even begin to tell you how aberrant he is, he doesn't eat PIZZA [and he's italian...]
I think it matters, even if it's a "free" day. If you're trying to do a mental and physical discipline, looking for loopholes doesn't seem the best way to go about it.
I have had friends whose husbands are "picky eaters" like that, and the kids pick it up from dad; I hope you won't have a problem with that. I'm such a dedicated cook that I don't think I could have married a man who was a picky, non-adventurous eater! His parents obviously tolerated it when he was a kid. :[
i think the last time i ate lobster was when i was a kid and out with my family! i have no problem with it, but it isn't my fave so i wouldn't ever order it. i like salmon, tuna, swordfish, even some shark. i have offered my kids tastes of it and they will take a bite, but haven't really acquired a taste for it. they are not remotely as bad as their dad and i really can't complain as they eat a wide variety of things, generally. i fault my MIL [may she rest in peace] for coddling my husband and having him be so food-challenged. i swore my kids wouldn't be that way, and they aren't.
i thought shellfish weren't supposed to be consumed at all?
i totally agree with you on the parents. as i said, i lay this at the feet of my mother-in-law! and my kids eat chinese, mexican, italian etc. Things their father wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole!
Good for you! I certainly wasn't coddled; the rule in our house was that you had to have at least "a no-thank-you helping" (very small portion) of everything, so you'd at least try it. This even applied to my father, who loves raw vegetables in salads but has never loved them cooked.
The only thing I never had to eat as a child was organ meats, especially liver - my father hated those too, and mother couldn't make us BOTH eat them. She was outnumbered. :)
Didn't you get a clue when you were dating him that he was ..... "limited" gastronomically? :)
I gave up sugar and flour.
he has other redeeming qualities : ) and while i love to cook, i can do so for the kids and when we have people over for dinner. he realizes he is handicapped in this way. it was pretty funny when he was in Australia on business and the group went out to a Thai restaurant there. i have no idea what he moved around his plate for that meal!
a very common refrain from my brother and i, to my mom, when we were growing up, was "this is okay, but don't make it again, ok?"
Effing A.
I wanna see a picture of the stick fish that fish sticks come from.
The closest my father ever came to a criticism was, "Well, I wouldn't order it out...." and we generally didn't see that dish again anytime soon. :)
My husband is the opposite of a picky eater, and I'm glad. We're spending some time in Paris next month, and in THAT city I would certainly hate to see him push uneaten food around his plate....!
Oh God, i hope i don't get the one with the eyeball in it!
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