kids.

[azurelunatic]

Well, I had to officially deal with my first Kid Crisis.

Fortunately, we were already wide awake by the time he started hurling.

No more *anything* containing pork for this boy. His mom hurls every time she eats something with pork in it, and now so does he. Ooooh, Grandma is ever going to be pissed about this....

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[todfox.livejournal.com]

I guess it kind of amazes me that someone could be so invested in a particular sort of food -- pork, of all things -- that it would upset them when they discover someone can't eat it.

Then again, my grandmother (on my father's side, also known as "the bitch with a Picasso in her summer home") sneered rather a lot at my vegetarianism when I was growing up.

Power Play

[azurelunatic]

It's not so much that she likes pork so much that she doesn't get it, it's that it's a power play going on between Grandma and Sis... Sis converted to Judaism, and took the bit about the flesh of swine seriously... and her mother did Not Like That one bit, and just ... didn't get it.

There's serious old bad blood between that mother/daughter pair, and I'm trying to stay the fuck out of the way.

But Sis pukes whenever she eats pork; she just can't handle it. Nephew is gaining the same problem. Since pretty much the only meat that Sis's mother buys is pork, and she's not accustomed to reading the labels...

Grandma is convinced that it's all in Sis's mind, that there are no actual physical effects, and Sis is just doing this to be a bitch. It's all imaginary and histrionic.

It's not, of course, but Grandma's never going to believe it, and in Grandma's eyes Sis will have ... gods know what, but Nephew doesn't eat pork if he knows what it is; he says it's yucky. (I agree.) Now he throws up if he eats it.

Therefore, he's not going to be allowed to eat most of the meat that Grandma tries to serve him. Grandma's going to be pissed, but I always have the option of barring her from *my* apartment (I'm the one who paid the deposit and the first three months' rent) and I don't think Grandma wants that. Hee hee. I am so evil.

Re: Power Play

[todfox.livejournal.com]

If you don't eat something for a long time, it certainly makes sense it can make you ill when you do try it. I was raised vegetarian and now I can't eat meat.

This does remind me a bit of my grandmother, as I said. We'd get together and have to do something cultural (museum usually) and then she'd take us out to dinner. She'd always act like it was the worst, most painful trial to find a restaurant with vegetarian options, and she'd usually either offer, 'Well, they have salad' or 'Vegetarians eat tuna fish, right?' Oy.

Re: Power Play

[azurelunatic]

and Oy again....