I’m guessing that You have not tried a good Peking duck or Cantonese roast
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@cyclonengineer goose is where it’s at
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I’m raising a picky eater and it’s frustrating, but also a minefield to navigate. I was raised to be a member of the “clean plate club”, and that, of course, developed terrible eating habits of ALWAYS eating all the food I had no matter what. My dad also taught me the rules of the buffet: “Take all you want, but eat all you take.” No problemo!
My kid shows amazing nutritional restraint. They’ll want a cupcake for dessert, eat half of it, say they’re all done and leave the table. That…never happened when I was a kid. But they’ll also go days without eating any form of meat. We make them try new foods all the time, but it’s always under the stipulation that they just have to try: we’re not going to force them to eat. They are VERY slowly expanding their internal menu. I think this is the better compromise of the two.
But I also grew up with a friend that, through college, would only eat Capt Crunch, frozen pizza, plain hamburgers and spaghetti with no sauce, so that’s always on my mind.
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Well, because it makes food roasted in it taste delicious - and it is a “healthy” fat type - what’s not to like? 
Your loss - roast duck is a really tasty dish - way better than chicken.
Well, if that suits you well, who are to say that it is not right?
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Similar to my raising - I had to “eat all your food” and that caused me to be overweight and not very muscular until I took control of my body at about age 15.
It bugged my dad that my brother is kind of a picky eater and didn’t finish his plate often.
My kids are all a bit picky, and I am taking the same approach as you. I don’t make them finish their plate. If they ate something and said they are done, I take their word for it. I know that if they are hungry they will eat (I watched my 4 year old consume almost half of a Blaze pizza the other day).
In college, I took over the duties of grocery shopping in my fraternity because the previous guys doing it thought we could survive on monster energy drinks, poptarts, and copious amounts of pasta.
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I love watching my kid gear up for a growth spurt. Suddenly seconds and thirds are happening at the dinner table, milk is going down, and sleep is topping 11+ hours. Some skinny “hardgainers” could stand to learn a lesson or two from them, haha.
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I confess that the confusion is mutual!
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Eh, I’ve been around it. My husband likes duck. I don’t consider myself a picky eater at all, it’s just that when a food pushes the wrong button (I understand duck to be a very rich, fatty poultry, and something about that just doesn’t do it for me) I have no interest in pushing through.
And it’s all completely inconsistent. I like lean meat…except I’ll plow right through every morsel of a grilled ribeye and I love ribs and untrimmed pork chops. I absolutely won’t eat beans…except baked beans, refrieds, and occasionally black beans if there’s enough rice to cover the texture.
There are just so many tasty foods to eat, why waste time on stuff I’d rather not? Also, aside from beans most of the foods on my “no” list are expensive, so pushing through my revulsion at, say, caviar seems counterproductive. Duck falls into that category. Why develop a taste for the most expensive thing on the menu?
I confess this, too. I’m hoping after the holidays…
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My mother-in-law will not eat cheese. Hamburgers, not cheeseburgers (and I’ve seen her get very upset if we order out and they screw up her order and add cheese), no cheese on sandwiches, etc etc.
Loves pizza.
Humans be weird.
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On board with most of this, sea cucumber would take some psyching up for though not gonna lie.
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It’s actually tasteless and has a jello like texture- picks up sauce very well
High end ones (determines by the number of spikes) are REALLY expensive
… but yeah, they’re technically poisonous
I have food protection issues.
I will fondu fork you up!
Less worried about this than the fact they look like Nurgle’s unholy dick.
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Why does it gross you out though?
No one knows, it just does.
I imagine it as dark turkey meat, but greasier and “tastier,” which I imagine not to be a good thing. Sort of the way some people can only eat very mild white fish, or won’t eat it at all. Poultry is iffy for me. I eat a lot of chicken, but pretty much stick to the breasts, which are fairly bland and easily altered through seasoning.
You gotta cut the balls off your liver…
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well, I do eat gallbladder
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Hehe…balls
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@Edgy
this is your cue 
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