Picky Eater
I can’t stand mushrooms, abhor liver.
To dine on brains just makes me shiver.
Drinking milk’s against my wishes.
Fish is simply for the fishes.
Raw tomatoes? I’d rather die.
And one more mouthful I won’t try?
I have no taste for humble pie!
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
No raw tomatoes for me.
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Unusual to meet another tomato hater.
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LOL
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Me too.
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I disagree with you on some of these (I love mushrooms, fish, and on occasion, liver), but I love this piece. Clever and amusing!
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Fish is for fishes!
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Awesome poetry. Powerful last line.
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Thanks, Suzette.
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Love tomatoes in any form, mushrooms too, could live on fish and milk — humble pie, I don’t think so!
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I like tomato paste, sauce, ketchup and salsa. Just cannot take a slab of fresh tomato. Guess I loved them as a baby and I became allergic to them and would break out in a rash, so my parents never fed them to me. So, as I grew up I developed a dislike of them.
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A great poem, Judy! I love your humor. Amazingly, my dad liked both brains and liver!
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Did he make you eat them?
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No, thank goodness for that!
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My friend’s mother once ‘tricked’ somone into eating brains by scrambling them with scrambled eggs…and then bragged about it to me. Yuck.
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Yuck!
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I like mushrooms: I fish; I like liver, but brains … yuk a no brainer there.
Raw tomato I cannot eat, I became allergic in my teens, but I’m absolutely fine with cooked in all forms.
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Hahaha! I don’t know about that, Judy… You don’t come across as arrogant 😉
❤
David
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Poetic license, don’t ya know?
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I like your tongue-in-cheek humor…perhaps it takes some humble pie to try!
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GREAT, EVEN THE CARTOON~!
but you got me going too early in the morning~!
MY THRILL TO GET MY FILL
TAKES MORE THAN QUADRILLE
Vegans are hard to understand,
I eat my beefsteak like a man.
Pasta, with big meatballs
makes you fat, but never tall.
Chinese food even chopsuey
I give you the bird, and say hooey~!
Etoiffee, Gumbo, or fricassee
Creole food is my favorite way.
But tripe, grillades or boudin red
I wan’t eat the innards or the blood~!
Don’t ever talk about liver and grits
the thought of that gives me fits~!
But I am not particular though
pies, and cookies, another way to go.
I once was offered steak tartar
eating meat raw is a bit too far.
The Brits seem to like food so bland
it tastes like paste with a bit of sand.
But if you insist my eating grass,
as for me, you can kiss my Ass.
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Haha! Brilliant!
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Nightshade plants aren’t healthy for me, I love how you twist the poem in that last line.
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Thanks, Paul.
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I sincerely hope that all this is fiction, Judy!
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I really do hate organ meats, fish, sliced raw tomatoes (diced and spiced in sauces is fine) and mushrooms unless they are diced very fine in a recipe.
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I’ll try to save this list, for the time you visit. I hope t cook for you one day!
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Me, too. Might happen!!!
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Looking forward to it, Judy.
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Fun and clever! Eating brains would make me shiver, too. 😀 But I don’t eat meat.
But I love mushrooms, and local, summer tomatoes are wonderful, and seafood.
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I don’t eat much meat anymore, either. I’m not quite sure what I enjoy eating anymore, and no, I don’t have Covid. Just had a test and I’m clean! I think food loses its savor. Perhaps our taste buds just wear out. Don’t do too well with humble pie, either…
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😀
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Is there anything this character will eat?
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Oh dear…that character is moi!! In my defense, I’m allergic to tomatoes and fish. And in a pinch, I will eat humble pie.
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That’s quite a balanced diet!
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