I'd have eaten more vegetables as a child like my mother wanted if the vegetables had just...

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Smelled and tasted like bacon!

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1. Funny, but in a strange way...

Mom couldn't serve veggies without some kind of vinegar-based dressing.

Always thought I hated veggies.

Turns out I hated vinegar.

Veggies are great without it. Who knew.

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2. I ate a lot of frozen beans, peas, corn and broccoli (New Tech!) growing up.

But refused to eat Asparagus.

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6. LOL, growing up we had a stream that ran thru the back of our pasture...

My horse would race to the asparagus growing along the banks and eat it like candy.

One day I saw the asparagus before he did, tied him to a stump and tried raw wild asparagus for the first time in my life. It is delicious, I think much better than cooked.

My horse was much smarter than I was then.

Still miss that horse.

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3. I used to hide the carrot sticks in my pants cuffs..

Mom thought I ate them, but then discovered what I was doing. We had many good laughs about it in her later years.

I still hate raw carrots.

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4. Two days ago I fried some onions in bacon grease. They were OMG good.

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5. They keep ya regular, they're real good for ya...

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