Re: whee! snow

In article <fq98q3$dpi$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
A Pig of Very Little Brain <piglet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Hobart Floyt" <AlacrityFitzhugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, in article
<13sfgmutkut2b64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dixit:
[asparagus]
The only vegetable that was allowed to be skipped
in my family as my mom stated it was too expensive
to be wasted on people who didn't like it.

Everything else it was mandatory to eat at least
one serving.

We also had to take a bit of everything, except asparagus. Funny,
that.

If I recall correctly (which indeed I might not, so many decades
later), "a bit" was 3 bites. Not exactly a nibble.

In my household, it was "one bite for each year old you are, plus one."

However, if I really kicked up a fuss about something, my mother stopped
making it or excepted it from the rule.

I don't remember having any asparagus as a kid. This was in the 60s and
70s in Michigan. We were missing a few things. I never had an artichoke
until I moved to California in 1988.
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