Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet
but.... I liiiiiike pork chops and steak and pot roast!
Especially pot roast. I have a theory that comfort food is often the poor people's food of whatever clan you come from. For me, mac and cheese, meat loaf (meat gound up with bread crumbs) and pot roast (tough cut of meat, cooked for a long time). How lucky am I to come from a place where meat can be part of the "poor people's food", right? While I enjoy steak, I can only eat a little bit of it, usually. Pork chops were a big treat for us, but usually so overcooked that I associate them with dry and tasteless. My mom made great hamburgers on the grill. If it were up to me to slaughter my own meat, it would not happen. Unless I was starving, in which case, it's every species for itself!

Knotted--how old is small knot? I seem to remember 12, 13ish? Somebody I know said that children are natural vegetarians. Neither my nephew (6) nor niece (2 1/2) will eat meat. My niece, otherwise an omnivore, will search out any meat on her plate, remove it, and give it to whatever adult is closest, saying, "I don' wan' it!" L.