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Random picky eating and food dislikes as a kid:

My mother had to make a smaller separate bowl of chili for my little sis cause she hated beans. Yup, no-bean chili.

As a kid I didn't like cheese. Maybe because it wasn't real cheese, mostly process American cheese crap. Gradually came around because, pizza! Today I am a big consumer of imported cheese, especially aged Dutch stuff.

Didn't like peanut butter as a kid. At ISU I was on a weekend geology bus trip and grabbed a sack lunch from the food service. Lunch time came and I found it was a peanut butter sandwich. Was pretty hungry so tried it and it was okay and been eating peanut butter ever since.

try a grilled PBJ, delicious
 
Heading out for a humid fitness testing bike ride. Somewhat skeptical about my acclimation to humidity this early in the year.

Been trying to bike faster, keeping up with the kids stuff, but maybe fast should be more Foghat like today.
 
Heading out for a humid fitness testing bike ride. Somewhat skeptical about my acclimation to humidity this early in the year.

Been trying to bike faster, keeping up with the kids stuff, but maybe fast should be more Foghat like today.
I was just about to post that I plan on going for a long ride tomorrow. Good luck.
 
Probably had a tiger hawk painted all over it then sold for scrap metal when wrecked in a drunk driving accident.

Could be. It survived 19-year me and may have used up all of it's lucky nine lives stuff. Did just miss crashing it into a bridge in Backbone State Park and the near head on with the milk truck near Vinton did scare the hell out of the two other guys in the car (there was just enough space for a third person to sit sideways behind the two seats).

Oh, and hammering the hell out of it on hot drive from Ames to Manchester and arriving with a couple of bald tires that were showing cord. Yikes! Dad Boxster got the wide eyes when he saw the tires.
 
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Larry: [Larry jogs out to the mound to break up a players' conference] Excuse me, but what the hell's going on out here?
Crash Davis: Well, Nuke's scared because his eyelids are jammed and his old man's here. We need a live... is it a live rooster?
[Jose nods]
Crash Davis: . We need a live rooster to take the curse off Jose's glove and nobody seems to know what to get Millie or Jimmy for their wedding present.
[to the players]
Crash Davis: Is that about right?
[the players nod]
Crash Davis: We're dealing with a lot of ****.
Larry: Okay, well, uh... candlesticks always make a nice gift, and uh, maybe you could find out where she's registered and maybe a place-setting or maybe a silverware pattern. Okay, let's get two! Go get 'em.

One of the best sports movies ever.
 
I eat pinto beans and some kidney beans now... They're not bad, but still not my favorite. Definitely good to remember. Somewhere I also saw an idea of giving them a smaller portion (older kids) and they had to at least have a bite or eat all the small amount of veggies. Instead of giving them a full portion.

I've got a big pot of "Texas Strawberries" cooking on the stove right now. I make them with onion, bay, tobasco, cayenne, chili powder & smoked ham shanks. The house smells wonderful... :)

They taste fantastic, but better not go for seconds. They'll clean out your system for you if you eat too much of them.
 
Could be. It survived 19-year me and may have used up all of it's lucky nine lives stuff. Did just miss crashing it into a bridge in Backbone State Park and the near head on with the milk truck near Vinton did scare the hell out of the two other guys in the car (there was just enough space for a third person to sit sideways behind the two seats).

Oh, and hammering the hell out of it on hot drive from Ames to Manchester and arriving with a couple of bald tires that were showing cord. Yikes! Dad Boxster got the wide eyes when he saw the tires.

Took a little detour through Backbone on RAGBRAI last year. I knew they haven't been mowing nearly as much as they used to and expected to be disappointed in the park, but it still is a great park. Going through there always takes me back to when I was a kid.
 
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Took a little detour through Backbone on RAGBRAI this year. I knew they haven't been mowing nearly as much as they used to and expected to be disappointed in the park, but it still is a great park. Going through there always takes me back to when I was a kid.


Just camped at backbone last summer...want to get some of my friends into trout fishing, and that'd be on the list, but haven't yet gotten any to take the bait (pun intended).
 
Just camped at backbone last summer...want to get some of my friends into trout fishing, and that'd be on the list, but haven't yet gotten any to take the bait (pun intended).

I can't wait to get back up into N.E. IA and go trout fishing. We aren't very good but I would take that over lake fishing any day.
 
Some guy just came to my door looking for one of my old neighbors. His left eye was looking up and to the left. I could only understand half of what he said. Pretty sure was high.
 
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