Ranty ranting

Something that has been bugging me. People who go on and on about how restaurants should make things like chicken fingers avalible for customers with kids -- even if it's not a family-type restaurant and chicken fingers are as in keeping with the menu as a bowl of fruit is with abstract painting.

Why does this bug me so? Because I seriously think it's a mistake to cater to a child's "palate" all the time. I mean, I was a seriously picky eater. SERIOUSLY picky. So bad that forcing me to eat something that I didn't like (and there were lots of those) would induce vomiting. But, despite this, when my parents took me out to eat -- and I'm talking Indian, not Perkins here -- I could find something to eat. It might take me twenty minutes of carefully looking over the menu and when the dish arrived, I might dismantle it, but I didn't need chicken fingers! Catering to picky eaters is bad. It reenforces the behavior, rather then teching them to expand their taste buds.

Besides, I'm not a huge fan of children in retaurants. But that's a rant for a different time.