I get frustrated with my child's pickiness ... But noodles with butter ARE pretty darn good.
December 8, 2024 at 1:25 AM
I get frustrated with my child's pickiness ... But noodles with butter ARE pretty darn good.
People confuse pickiness with good taste. My worst personality trait is how picky I am.
October 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
People confuse pickiness with good taste. My worst personality trait is how picky I am.
You may overestimate their pickiness!!
September 26, 2026 at 7:08 AM
You may overestimate their pickiness!!
The author "urges parents to reframe healthy eating not as discipline or deprivation but as a smart investment and a genuine pleasure." Children didn't always need to learn how to eat well. From the archives:
How Children Learned to Hate Food
On the origins of pickiness.
lnk.thebulwark.com
September 28, 2026 at 11:01 PM
The author "urges parents to reframe healthy eating not as discipline or deprivation but as a smart investment and a genuine pleasure." Children didn't always need to learn how to eat well. From the archives:
Someone responded to me about “not indulging your children’s pickiness” and there were a bunch of words after that but I’ll never know what they were because I blocked them mid sentence. Read the article.
Here is a @scarymommy.com piece about food aversion I was I interviewed for last year!
Your "Picky Eater" Could Actually Have Food Aversion, & It's A Vital Distinction
Matthew Broberg-Moffitt, an autistic chef and author, explains food aversion and how vital it is for parents to separate it from garden-variety picky eating.
www.scarymommy.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Someone responded to me about “not indulging your children’s pickiness” and there were a bunch of words after that but I’ll never know what they were because I blocked them mid sentence. Read the article.
Children didn't always need to learn how to eat well.
How Children Learned to Hate Food
On the origins of pickiness.
lnk.thebulwark.com
July 22, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Children didn't always need to learn how to eat well.
being picky unfortunately does not inform you of the rules of your own pickiness you gotta figure it out same as everyone else
January 23, 2026 at 7:12 AM
being picky unfortunately does not inform you of the rules of your own pickiness you gotta figure it out same as everyone else
I think it's a thing mostly with Online Dating, which indulges that kind of absurd pickiness (like only looking at profiles of guys who are in the 95th percentile of height)
September 26, 2026 at 11:10 PM
I think it's a thing mostly with Online Dating, which indulges that kind of absurd pickiness (like only looking at profiles of guys who are in the 95th percentile of height)
Pride and Pickiness
September 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Pride and Pickiness
Every day. I'd change his food, but because of Grimbal's allergies and pickiness, that's not happening
September 28, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Every day. I'd change his food, but because of Grimbal's allergies and pickiness, that's not happening
Even if Picky didn’t have terrible recommendations in the epilogue, it’s a dangerous book predicated on an incorrect hypothesis. It presents itself as a history book that says American kids have been modeled into “pickiness” by corporations.
Picky by Helen Zoe Veit will hurt people. Food aversion has proven neurobiological factors and ARFID doesn’t typically respond to exposure therapy. There are social elements and some kids are “just” selective in their eating, but putting it all under one tent will kill kids.
Picky-eating American children are afflicted with a form of privilege we don't talk about enough: not-dying privilege.
To explain, @amybrown.xyz kicks off our TASTE week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...
To explain, @amybrown.xyz kicks off our TASTE week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...
May 12, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Even if Picky didn’t have terrible recommendations in the epilogue, it’s a dangerous book predicated on an incorrect hypothesis. It presents itself as a history book that says American kids have been modeled into “pickiness” by corporations.
We have stock of our Fair of the Fungi hoodies in B grade now available! Little printing errors that made them miss the mark, but our pickiness is your gain because they're $20 off! 🍄🍄🟫
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June 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
We have stock of our Fair of the Fungi hoodies in B grade now available! Little printing errors that made them miss the mark, but our pickiness is your gain because they're $20 off! 🍄🍄🟫
campmustelid.shop
campmustelid.shop
I can’t eat most fruits, & as a kid, my parents made every effort to “overcome” this “pickiness.”
But it’s not about “pickiness,” it’s about the visceral disgust they instill in me. It’s like asking someone to “overcome” their aversion to rotting, dirty roadkill. My body rejects them. #Autistic
But it’s not about “pickiness,” it’s about the visceral disgust they instill in me. It’s like asking someone to “overcome” their aversion to rotting, dirty roadkill. My body rejects them. #Autistic
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but autistic people aren’t “picky eaters”. We’re sensory eaters.
What may seem like fussiness is often an intense sensory experience:
- Textures that overwhelm
- Smells that trigger nausea
- Flavours that overload the brain
#AutismAwareness #ARFID
What may seem like fussiness is often an intense sensory experience:
- Textures that overwhelm
- Smells that trigger nausea
- Flavours that overload the brain
#AutismAwareness #ARFID
August 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I can’t eat most fruits, & as a kid, my parents made every effort to “overcome” this “pickiness.”
But it’s not about “pickiness,” it’s about the visceral disgust they instill in me. It’s like asking someone to “overcome” their aversion to rotting, dirty roadkill. My body rejects them. #Autistic
But it’s not about “pickiness,” it’s about the visceral disgust they instill in me. It’s like asking someone to “overcome” their aversion to rotting, dirty roadkill. My body rejects them. #Autistic
The reasons for picky eating are complex and fascinating:
How Children Learned to Hate Food
On the origins of pickiness.
lnk.thebulwark.com
March 24, 2026 at 12:30 AM
The reasons for picky eating are complex and fascinating:
oh. my. god.
i love this level of pickiness 😍
i love this level of pickiness 😍
Outrageous! The moon rotation in this shot of
The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.
The Lion King remake implies it was shot far into the northern hemisphere. What happened to realism? Literally unwatchable.
October 7, 2025 at 4:06 AM
oh. my. god.
i love this level of pickiness 😍
i love this level of pickiness 😍
... how much of my pickiness abt being macro is just that im more comfortable lying down
February 22, 2026 at 3:07 PM
... how much of my pickiness abt being macro is just that im more comfortable lying down
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January 7, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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Reading a book on childhood pickiness and my main takeaway so far is that Americans used to eat just a fuckload more oysters than they do now
August 26, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Reading a book on childhood pickiness and my main takeaway so far is that Americans used to eat just a fuckload more oysters than they do now
Picky-eating American children are afflicted with a form of privilege we don't talk about enough: not-dying privilege.
To explain, @amybrown.xyz kicks off our TASTE week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...
To explain, @amybrown.xyz kicks off our TASTE week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...
Pickiness tastes like trauma
How American children became the fussiest eaters in history (and why they need to check their not-dying privilege).
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
May 11, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Picky-eating American children are afflicted with a form of privilege we don't talk about enough: not-dying privilege.
To explain, @amybrown.xyz kicks off our TASTE week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...
To explain, @amybrown.xyz kicks off our TASTE week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...
I’m sorry I will not hear any talk about the attractiveness of this man. Reserve that pickiness for your own choices…or settlings
July 26, 2026 at 8:23 PM
I’m sorry I will not hear any talk about the attractiveness of this man. Reserve that pickiness for your own choices…or settlings
my contribution to kids and pickiness is that when our older son was tiny we learned that “your kid will eat when he needs food” is not true and we had to figure out how the hell to get enough calories into him so we did things like “have ice cream in front of the tv” and you do what you have to
May 13, 2026 at 3:33 AM
my contribution to kids and pickiness is that when our older son was tiny we learned that “your kid will eat when he needs food” is not true and we had to figure out how the hell to get enough calories into him so we did things like “have ice cream in front of the tv” and you do what you have to
this isn't just grammar pickiness or a stylistic preference. I have *seen* a politician say "they aren't the same as [real] women, thus 'transwomen'". it matters.
Trans. Woman. Two words.
"trans woman" shows that this is just a kind of woman, like tall, blonde or green-eyed.
"Transwoman" has and will be used to say that we are a separate thing from women.
Trans women are a kind of woman, pass it on.
"trans woman" shows that this is just a kind of woman, like tall, blonde or green-eyed.
"Transwoman" has and will be used to say that we are a separate thing from women.
Trans women are a kind of woman, pass it on.
May 27, 2026 at 6:30 PM
this isn't just grammar pickiness or a stylistic preference. I have *seen* a politician say "they aren't the same as [real] women, thus 'transwomen'". it matters.
A new book convincingly demonstrates that picky eating is a recent—and quite American—invention.
Daniel Gullotta reviews Helen Zoe Veit's "Picky":
Daniel Gullotta reviews Helen Zoe Veit's "Picky":
How Children Learned to Hate Food
On the origins of pickiness.
lnk.thebulwark.com
March 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
A new book convincingly demonstrates that picky eating is a recent—and quite American—invention.
Daniel Gullotta reviews Helen Zoe Veit's "Picky":
Daniel Gullotta reviews Helen Zoe Veit's "Picky":
Our pediatrician always said “they’ll eat when they’re hungry” and that has never really failed to be true.
Eventually the pickiness gets overwhelmed by a need for calories
Eventually the pickiness gets overwhelmed by a need for calories
September 30, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Our pediatrician always said “they’ll eat when they’re hungry” and that has never really failed to be true.
Eventually the pickiness gets overwhelmed by a need for calories
Eventually the pickiness gets overwhelmed by a need for calories
in my experience, with my kids' and others, is that pickiness is almost always a control thing
May 13, 2026 at 9:45 AM
in my experience, with my kids' and others, is that pickiness is almost always a control thing