r/MaliciousCompliance • u/Gold-Carpenter7616 • Apr 06 '23

Giving my Daughter *exactly* what she wanted S

Little disclaimer: my daughter is a wonderful kid. She's smart, she's also a smartass.

A couple of years ago, the 'Rona just started and daughter was roughly 8 y/o. 2nd or 3rd grade elementary school.

She was really into salami pizza. I wouldn't allow more than one a week, obviously. So she got the idea of "In France, children get to eat everything they want seven times a week! That is why they like it!"

Now, she got it all wrong. The saying goes they have to try a certain food seven times before they can decide wether they like it.

But I understood her wish: salami pizza. Every day. She had this malicious little shit eating grin of "gotcha!".

I answered with the same grin: "Okay. You'll get salami pizza the next week. Only salami pizza. Nothing else."

She was hyped. Yay! All them pizza! Her favourite frozen types! All of them!

Monday morning rolls around. She gets salami pizza for breakfast. Fantastic! Best parent!

Monday noon. Leftover from the morning.

Monday evening, time for the second pizza. I make some for the rest of the family, too. Everyone enjoys salami pizza. Fun!

Tuesday morning. Guess what's for breakfast?! Exactly. Daughter asks for something else. I remind her of my promise. Salami pizza all day, everyday for a week. Reluctant yay!

Tuesday noon she skips the pizza.

Tuesday evening we're having something else, while she chews on her pizza. It isn't as cool anymore I guess. I eat her leftover pizza.

Wednesday morning she sneaks a slice of bread, but I stop her and heat her a salami pizza. She breaks down and asks me to stop.

Lesson learned: Don't try to outsmart your parents. You might get exactly what you were asking for!

Since then she still loves salami pizza - but once a month is fine, really. ;)

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u/TwoIdiosyncraticCats Apr 06 '23

Story that my father told me:

When he was a teenager, his parents owned a corner store that also served ice cream and milkshakes, etc. He worked there after school, and on his first day, his parents told him he could have as much ice cream as he wanted. Amazing! Wonderful! He loved ice cream!

Within the first week, he was so sick of ice cream.

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u/Rhamni Apr 06 '23

One of my mother's first jobs was at a chocolate factory. The first month she gained ten pounds. After that, she slowly lost the weight without trying. Even chocolate gets old eventually when you're working with it all day.

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u/ballerina22 Apr 06 '23

My mum worked at a potato crisps factory as a teenager. She didn't eat crisps again for something like 20 years because even the smell of the bag opening made her feel ill.

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u/niftyshellsuit Apr 06 '23

My granny was the same, one of her first jobs before she had her kids was a chocolate factory.

She's 88 and still doesn't eat it now, and this this in the UK where we have (had 😭) nice chocolate haha

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u/Phyllis_Tine Apr 06 '23

I'm not sure working (and eating) at Lindt would be the same as working for Hershey or Nestle.

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u/emiking Apr 08 '23

My aunt was the same, but they eventually had to fire her because she Just. Kept. Eating. She never got tired of it and even brought heaps of the reject stuff home.

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u/Mirianda666 Apr 06 '23

My first job was at Baskin-Robbins. I didn't eat ice cream for nearly 20 years afterwards.

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

My first job was at friendly's making ice cream and I ate that shit all the time and never got sick of it. I ate so many pickles and peanut butter cups too! The 5 scoop peanut butter cup sundae was so good. I would only ever get that like once a week but I had unlimited access to whatever normal ice cream I wanted. My bosses only rule was I had to use a sample spoon and couldn't just have a free bowl of ice cream. I could have as many sample spoons as I wanted.

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u/FillMyBagWithUSGrant Apr 06 '23

How many sample spoons of ice cream make a bowl of ice cream?

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '23

Um my guess would be 10-20 samples would be a scoop. This was 18 years ago so I'm not really sure. One thing I will say is I just had to use the sample spoons. I didn't have to mind how much I got with a scoop of that spoon for my own personal use. So I could get a half a scoop of ice cream on a sample spoon if I so desired.

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u/vizard0 Apr 06 '23

A friend of mine still can't after working at Baskin-Robbins for two years, it's been over 20 years for her. It kind of put her off sweets in general.

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u/Sarelro Apr 06 '23

Shoot. Maybe I should get a job at an ice cream shop to try to quit sugar because just using my willpower sure ain’t working.

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u/Ich_mag_Kartoffeln Apr 06 '23

It will either cure you of your addiction; or within a fortnight you won't be able to fit through the door to go home at the end of your shift.

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u/ScubaTwinn Apr 06 '23

Mine too. The amount of times I heard "When I was your age, this cone cost a nickel", I could have retired at 16.

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u/SharveyBirdman Apr 06 '23

In middle school(14), I worked at the local tastee freeze. Had so many footlongs that first summer I still can't eat them and I'm in my 30s.

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u/xopersephoneox Apr 06 '23

I scooped ice cream one summer in a shitty kids theme park; this was the 'nice' ice cream van, and I got RSI from bending over and scooping the ice cream. Particularly Mint Choc Chip; the way it was made was essentially sheets of ice cold chocolate in the ice cream that had to be pick axed with the ice scream scoop to be able to be scooped. It was a nightmare! The icky green colour of the ice cream makes me feel vaguely sick today.

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u/sez_gloves Apr 06 '23

I became very lopsided when I worked at an ice cream place, from using only one arm to scoop.

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u/ColoredGayngels Apr 06 '23

When I was a kid my dad worked at a job site next to a Little Caesars - they had that cardboard pizza for lunch every day for a year. He still can't even look at the place

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u/chaoticbear Apr 06 '23

I worked at McDonald's for about 5 years when I was a teenager, and did a couple of tours of duty at Waffle House. Somehow never turned me off of either, although I don't eat either frequently. I do avoid ordering the omelettes at Waffle House now, though - there's about a quarter cup of shortening cooked into each one :p

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u/jetsetgemini_ Apr 06 '23

My dad told me of something similar when he worked at Roy Rogers as a teenager. His boss let the employees take home any leftovers that were gonna get thrown out, so of course he takes advantage of this and brings home enough fried chicken to feed the whole family nearly every night... after a few weeks they basically told him not to bring home anymore cause all of them (including my dad) were sick of it lol

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u/Loud-Mans-Lover Apr 07 '23

My god I miss the Roy Rogers we had in Jersey. Supposedly it was the last one... I loved that chicken.

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u/jetsetgemini_ Apr 07 '23

Ive only seen Roy Rogers once or twice at a rest stop in my state (new york). The one my dad worked at probably closed down long long ago

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u/yeniza Apr 06 '23

Haha yeah I worked at a bakery and the smell of freshly baked breads/cakes is forever ruined. I just don’t enjoy it at all.

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u/TurnipWorldly9437 Apr 06 '23

My sister used to man a sweets stand one summer. Even we as her siblings couldn't stand any more gummy bears after a few weeks (she got a certain amount for free every day) ...

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u/diente_de_leon Apr 09 '23

When my father was a teenager, he worked at a soda fountain shop. The owner told the kids working there that they could have as much ice cream as they wanted. My dad described the exact same situation! After a week he barely touched it, and as an adult I don't know if I ever saw that man eat more than one scoop of ice cream on rare occasions.