What happened to very fussy eaters in the olden days?

[houseydnc]

Inspired by another thread where the DC Would only eat the following:
Chicken nuggets
Chips
Toast
Chocolate spread sandwiches

What happened to children like this before chicken nuggets, chips and Nutella existed?

I know fussy eating is different to conditions like ARFID and other sensory disorders. I'm not passing judgement, I'm just interested to know.

I wonder what their diet was restricted to? Toast? Or were they forced to eat a wider variety of foods?

I'm 60, and this is reminding me of being made to sit in front of a bowl of cold rice pudding at school, long after everyone else had left the 'dinner room and lessons had started. I wasnt allowed to leave until id eaten it...
I hated rice pudding, and still cant even look at it without feeling sick!

I also echo what others have said, You ate what you were given, or went hungry at home.

@Oakbeam That is true, but there is not a great deal of evidence about childhood food issues - apart from matters of sheer scarcity/survival or of fashionable young women dieting (there's lots on that) - in the distant past. So how can we tell?
In any case, that is NOT AT ALL what we are talking about here: childhood food preferences/refusers.

Incidentally, the arguments of Aries (quoted in the Australian article several pages ago - that medieval parents did not love their children/treated them as mini-adults) have long been challenged and (to my mind) discredited.

In one rather surprising area, perhaps, there is evidence: about anorexia in young religious women in the Middle Ages: Holy Anorexia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorexia_mirabilis But again, that's not what we've been talking about here.

It's vile

I always refused to eat it - bleugh

Abso-bloody-lutely @greengreengrass25 pure frogspawn!

And semolina

and porridge!

I was a very picky eater due to 2 reasons: one was my mum overcooked all her veg so it was just over cooked mush, the other was due to dodgy adenoids and tonsils I couldn't really taste anything.

Tonsils out aged 8, haven't stopped eating since