• Nanachi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “What do you want me to do, express mail my meal to African children? If you care about the starving children so much, than donate to UNESCO. Also can I get some buter bred pls”

  • d6GeZtyi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Same here!

    People said that to me a lot when I was a kid and I took a very long time (only once a teenager or adult?) to understand what they even meant by that (how was that sentence going to make me eat?). It even had the opposite effect, I was like: cool a solution: less for me, more for them, and everyone’s happy!

    Even now that I get the thought, I still think this is a nonsensical sentence to convince people they should eat things they don’t want to.

    • Xea@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      1 year ago

      well besides it being a bad way to convice somebody

      for me, it is not about wanting to and its not about childhood(I am an adult and I still strugle + am told what a awful person I am for wasting food), I have a small selection of gland foods I can eat in comfort, everything else is unbearable to eat, I don’t refuse food because I don’t want to be nice and just eat up, I refuse because It is painful to do and might vomit it all back up again