I don’t generally identify myself as a vegetarian because, while it’s not a daily–or even a weekly–occurrence, I do eat some meat now and then.\u00a0 You will never, for example, see me turning my nose up at bacon, and upon occasion I’ll eat some turkey breast.\u00a0 In the spirit of full disclosure, I might as well confess that I sometimes eat hamburgers as well, but only from McDonald’s, which the carnivores I know and love assure me only barely counts as meat.\u00a0 So yeah, I guess I’m not one-hundred percent averse to pork, turkey, or beef.\u00a0 What I don’t eat, EVER, if I can help it, is chicken.<\/p>\n
I suppose it’s worth mentioning as well that I also don’t eat fish or mutton or wild game or horse or goat or any other sort of animal flesh, but this is not about that.\u00a0 What this is about is chicken, or more specifically, how I can convince my son that he should dive heartily into the plate of roasted chicken that is his dinner.\u00a0 Or should I even bother?\u00a0 I can tell him that it’s tasty and nutritious and all the usual blather about strong bones and teeth, but I’m totally at a loss when he asks me why I’m not having any.\u00a0 The truth–that just the thought of chicken makes me shudder a bit in revulsion–is right out if I hope to succeed in getting even a little of his dinner off his plate and into his belly.\u00a0 Even a simple “I don’t like it” lets him off the hook, because if it’s a reasonable excuse for me not to eat something, it should be just as good an excuse for him, right?<\/p>\n
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