Down with HFCS!

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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Ralphie was raised to never leave an empty plate at meal time. To this day, he has a problem doing that and will finish no matter how full he gets sometimes. So I think it has to do with the brainwashing our parents put us through as kids.
For me, when I'm done eating, I'm done. I stop. Even if the plate's still full. That behavior came from be being a general pain in the a$s as a kid.

I was *lucky* to be raised in to try everything on my plate and eat until I was done. However, things happened when I was older (that I am not going to get into here) that to this day cause my brain to trigger a "eat everything you can" feeling when I think about dieting, or do any kind of plan that restricts food (weight watchers does not work for me for this reason).

Food is comfort is a mentality many of us were raised with. Good grades? Let's get ice cream. Birthdays? Anniversaries? Let's eat! Feeling down? Let's get Chinese food. It's cold out? Let's eat pasta, it's hot out? let's get some ice cream.

My dad told me a [Jewish] joke about the holidays. "They tried to kill us, we won. Let's eat!". Applies to I think every Jewish Holiday (Including Yom Kippur - we always went out for a huge meal after it was over).