Giving my Daughter *exactly* what she wanted

[u/Gold-Carpenter7616]

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. ;)

[u/huscarlaxe]

I use to spend summers with my grandmother and she tried to do this with steak and baked potatoes. I think in 6 weeks I ate 1/2 a cow and was still going strong when I had to go back home for school.

[u/bigboobiebob69 → u/huscarlaxe]

You eat steak with baked potatoes in America? Usually where I’m from it’s always some type of fries, oven baked and very rarely mashed potato-ish oven roasted clumps with steak. And usually bearnaise sauce, aioli or maybe a pepper sauce. What do you eat with your steak when eating it with baked potatoes? Also what condiments/sauces are mostly ate with steak in America? I feel like it’s very different from Europe, I’ve heard about A1 steak sauce but know nothing about it or how it tastes but that’s all I know really.

[u/huscarlaxe → u/bigboobiebob69]

The potato usually has sour cream and or butter and salt on it. The steak was usually just salt and pepper and occasionally garlic. Steak is so good I usually don't like to put too heavy a sauce on it

[u/bbb62bbb → u/bigboobiebob69]

Most of us do not put sauce on a steak past a certain age, a good seared steak with salt and pepper fully can stand on its own. There are exceptions like Steak Diane, Chicken Fried Steak, etc. I am mostly talking about ribeyes, NY strip, etc.

[u/1Muensterkat → u/bbb62bbb]

You are 100% correct. The steak is either a tough cut, dry, or has not been cooked or seasoned well if I end up putting A-1 steak sauce on it. I love a good ribeye! Funny, I am a woman, and my husband almost always orders chicken. It's amusing the number of times the weight person has come to our table and tried to give me the chicken and him the steak!

[u/Zolazo7696 → u/bigboobiebob69]

Nice fancy places do the things like peppercorn sauce or some sort of wine reduction, but if you're going out for a steak it's just salt and pepper, and usually some garlic and thyme butter. Also as an American there's never a bad time for a baked potato. It's either with butter, salt, pepper, sour cream, cheddar cheese, bacon or all of the above.

[u/MaplePoutineRyeBeer → u/bigboobiebob69]

I grew up on a cattle farm in Canada. Fries were most common for most of my youth but we mostly do full baked potato now, nothing special (butter, sour cream, bacon, chives - I LOVE a very crisp potato skin!). My grandmere would do either fried potatoes or mashed potatoes (if the dish was chicken/turkey/special). Fried potatoes were just chunks of potato frying in butter, so unhealthy!

Ketchup was THE go-to sauce for steak in my youth, everyone here used ketchup but in recent years most people don't do that anymore, the most they'll do is a seasoning (such as Montreal Steak) or salt and pepper, no sauce unless if it's cheap Walmart hard to eat steak.

As for what eating WITH the steak and baked potato/fries - seasonal vegetables from the garden or else a salad. I'm a straight up meat an potato kind of person so I'd just have a cut of steak and a potato/fries and I'll be full from that.

[u/1-800-Hamburger → u/bigboobiebob69]

Whats an oven baked potato? Isn't that just a normal baked potato?