# A teenager doesn't know how to cut up her own food **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 26, 2012, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146 "2012-12-26T02:41:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/201 "2012-12-29T01:33:18Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Mine was – if you don’t finish (food you don’t like) you don’t get to watch tv or something like that. > > Funny, it was usually some kind of meat or casserole. I loved veggies as a kid. How many kids claim spinach as one of their favorite foods? clearly you never had it from a can in 50’s and 60’s. It was unrecognizably as a source of food. I have no idea who they were foolin with the Popeye cartoons. It tastes just fine when cooked fresh. Frozen orange juice was equally bad. tasted like it was canned in recycled motor oil can (yes oil use to come in cans). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/202 "2012-12-29T03:05:55Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Your mom didn’t make homemade pies, cakes and other yummy things? Only on weekends, if that. We were very active as youths. Just load up during dinner. (Which is fine, because I don’t like sweets that much. Maybe that’s why.) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/203 "2012-12-29T03:11:18Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > (yes oil use to come in cans). Christ, maybe I’m getting real old. Is oil in cans _that_ old-timey a concept? I’m not even 40 and I remember oil coming in cans. Hell, I even remember “Oil Can” Boyd. Damn. I am getting old, aren’t I? ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/204 "2012-12-29T03:17:33Z")
Bahh…oil cans smoil cans… We just twisted the “tap” on the bottom side of the dinosaurs to get our oil . And most of them seemed to like it. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/205 "2012-12-29T03:21:49Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I’m such a tyrant…if you don’t eat “enough” of your dinner (and that is left deliberately vague and up to Mom’s Discretion, because otherwise my daughter will lawyer me down to the individual grain of rice), then your dessert is fruit. Otherwise, there may be ice cream or pudding or even, occasionally, cupcakes. My only rule is that they had to eat all of their fruit and/or vegetables, which was their choice. (They usually picked whole fruit or raw vegetables, such as broccoli or baby carrots (with ranch dressing.)) That was the only thing that was not optional. I encouraged them to eat a few bites of meat. If they didn’t want to eat the starch, that was fine with me. And while I wasn’t willing to make a separate meal for a picky eater, I was willing to leave seasoning out of their portion of the meat, if that was their preference. I think one’s taste for seasoning changes throughout the years. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/206 "2012-12-29T03:31:07Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Christ, maybe I’m getting real old. Is oil in cans _that_ old-timey a concept? I’m not even 40 and I remember oil coming in cans. Hell, I even remember “Oil Can” Boyd. > > Damn. I am getting old, aren’t I? The internet is starting to get scary. I googled it and found a [board](http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=872947)where the same question was asked. So I’m guessing mid to late 80’s before they were gone. So roughly 25 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/207 "2012-12-29T03:34:19Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > The internet is starting to get scary. I googled it and found a [board](http://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=872947)where the same question was asked. So I’m guessing mid to late 80’s before they were gone. So roughly 25 years ago. Sounds about right to me, although I don’t think they became obsolete until the very early 90s. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/208 "2012-12-29T03:49:49Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > O…K… Well the people with NORMAL parents just went to bed without dessert. Whoa! I just noticed the part about him getting fed the vomit veggies. Jeez. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/209 "2012-12-29T04:20:51Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Whoa! I just noticed the part about him getting fed the vomit veggies. Jeez. yeah, well when we were kids we didn’t get the vegetables from the vomit… those were picked out and we just got the vomit… and we were grateful. And oil cans… we walked home from the refinery with the oil in our pockets. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/210 "2012-12-29T04:41:12Z")
This thread is weird. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146/211 "2012-12-29T04:51:19Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#): > > Whoa! I just noticed the part about him getting fed the vomit veggies. Jeez. I was gonna say something but let it go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-teenager-doesnt-know-how-to-cut-up-her-own-food/645146.md?page=10)