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GordonS on Dec 25, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The ‘clean plate’ mentality drives us to overeat?

Do you think this could discourage kids from trying new foods, or does that come under "parental modulation", such that if you try it and don't like it, you don't have to eat it?

gumby on Dec 26, 2018 [–]

I think the idea that some foods should be avoided is learned from parents anyway. I’ve only ever seen it in the US.

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