Nishikata-chan - Ch. 1

[MangaDex]

 

[Trihexa]

Eh...

 

[HiraOmnibus]

There's a lot of Japanese quirks I still don't get and giving peppers to kids is one of them. I guess it's like Americans and celery but that's dumb too.

 

[TheGTF]

@HiraOmnibus Because green bell peppers are overwhelmingly reported as a thing children don't like and are the most resistant to eating in Japan. If you mean mechanically why that's because they are unripe versions of their more colorful counterparts; they have less water, less sugars, etc and thus have a more pronounced bitterness to them. Keep in mind young children have more sensitive palates than adults so they perceive that bitterness far sharper than we do once we're older; combo that with our basic instinctual understanding of what bitterness means, poisonous.

 

[Askorti]

@TheGTF I think what Hira means is the idea of giving kids something so unpalatable to eat when everyone knows they hate it.

 

[alee76]

I gave peppers to my kids expecting the switch to turn on some day and eventually it did.

 

[manabi]

@HiraOmnibus Parents routinely give kids foods they don't like, because the only way to get them to eat stuff is to make them keep trying it over time. Some stuff they'll never like, but many things they'll eventually decide they like it after trying it enough times. This is especially true of healthy foods like vegetables. If you let kids only eat what they like, they'll have an absolutely abysmal diet nutrition-wise.

 

[Atelierwanwan]

My diet is pretty relevent to this discussion. After my parents divorced my mother stopped doing things like making me eat things I didn't like or brushing my teeth. I now have horrendous teeth and like almost no food. Literally the only vegetables I somewhat like are potatos, peas and maybe carrots if they are cooked a certain way. I eat almost exclusively meat and junk. (being Australian and hating onions doesn't help, it's in literally EVERYTHING. Can't even buy mac and cheese without onion in it for whatever insane reason.) Let kids have their way and they'll ruin themselves. I also feel like giving them something they hate so much will help them appreciate other things and perhaps even things they might not have liked that much to begin with.