Describe how and why people choose the particular foods they eat.

Besides being a pain in the ass, picky eaters are primitive.

In prehistoric times picky eating had a survival benefit. Back in those days when you decided what to eat for dinner you never knew if it might kill you. Mushroom field guides hadn’t been invented yet. There we no websites available to help identify poison berries. Taste testing was the only way to find out if something was safe to eat. If you survived then you knew you could eat it again without consequences. If you died, well at least you tried something new.

In cave times, tested food because your preferred food since you knew it wouldn’t kill you. You would eat proven foods exclusively until the supply ran out and you were forced to start testing new options again. Only fools experimented with unproven food unnecessarily because sometimes it killed you. No wonder nobody wanted to try anything new!

Now it’s 2010 and we have food markets where we can be reasonably certain the food is safe. Restaurant menus typically don’t offer morsels of poisonous frogs or toxic plants. Rational people realize that trying new foods is safe, heck it can even be fun. For the primitive minded, they still have the fear of the cave man. They return time and time again to their proven food sources and they don’t want to try anything else.

Picky eaters will try to discourage you from eating food that you like. In their stone age brain they believe they are protecting you from deadly food. When you tell them that you like to eat something that’s not on their limited menu of approved foods they scowl at you as if you were describing something nastily offensive. These scowls make them look astonishingly like cave men.

I told you they were primitive.

*Proven food is safe to eat*