Feline picky
I think my cats are less picky than most of you fussy blighters. Get over yourselves and try new foods. Honestly, vegetables won't kill you. Nor will a bit of blue cheese. I remain convinced that processed pap and bland, texture-less convenience 'foods' combined with guilt ridden parents who give their ickle darlings whatever they want have destroyed many people's ability to chew. It's little wonder that veggies and real meat seem unpleasant, when they actually require effort to chew rather than a reconstituted burger which just dissolves in a quick sugar rush.

You might be getting the feeling that I'm a bit angry, and I am. I'm fecking livid. Eating habits are laid down in childhood, but children are not a different species that have to be handled with kid gloves. They do reject certain foods for good reason (eg bitter etc as noted below) but also they are not born with a basic desire for chicken nuggets and beans. Feed them whatever you eat and they will grow up to eat the same (whether that's everything or nothing). How many of you picky so and so's were brought up in skint households? When money is scarce, as Nanny Ogg would say, what you want on your plate is lots, and you don't mind what of.

Rant over, and in a desperate attempt to be at least opposite to the topic, I'd like to share what my not at all picky cats eat. No surprises with roast chicken, fish, cheese, cream. I was a bit more surprised by their insistent cries for scrambled egg, chickpeas, hummous, mushrooms and couscous. I am now used to the fact that anything in a tomato sauce is fair game - tinned tomatoes, chilli, tomato and bean stew. I get mugged by them for lemon cake and toast. Bread or scones left out to defrost will be enthusiastically nibbled. But I think my favourite moment was when I explained the fact that the cats came running to me when I opened a packet of pistachio nuts (yup, they went down well) by saying, yes, they probably think they are Hula Hoops.
(ancrenne is very unavailable, Mon 5 Mar 2007, 11:14, closed)