Liking olives is NOT a milestone

[MizLizLemon]

Maybe it's just because I live in a naice area, but one of the most frequent boasts I hear, alongside the usual ones about reading levels and musical/sporting abilities, is that someone's DD or DS loves olives, which I frankly find really odd (not the child liking olives, but that it's considered something to boast about). Liking olives isn't a milestone, is it? I'm quite bed at middle class parenting, I'd never even heard of NCT until after I'd given birth, but the olives thing really puzzles me.

(Full disclosure, my DD hates olives and thinks they're the work of the devil).

Your Mum is very proud of your progress Mouthful.

Getting teeth neither. It's iust luck. No relation to eventual intelligence.

Ditto people learning to read fast

Uh oh I think I'm 'one of those mums' haha. I said the other day to my friend 'can you believe that xxx loves olives'. But in my defence I said it because I hated the bastard things up until the age of about 30 so I'm saying it in amazement rather than boasting. I'll check my baby book though maybe it is a milestone...

GREAT TOPIC - My parents are overwhelmingly proud of my youngest niece's outstanding ability to tuck into a take out curry.... thus proving that in this World we have food snobs and inverted food snobs too.

Lol, hrft, just op, but you are so right! It us always said with such pride!!

Well I am 36 and still don't like them. Then my mother did say that I was a late developer....

I am afraid if I was one of those Mums I would probably have been boasting too (in a subtle way of course ). DD (4) is very much not an experimental eater so one of my proudest moments was the day she copied her much more sophisticated friend by eating mussels on holiday in France last year. Sadly she has refused to repeat this feat since - well certainly not at Cafe Rouge which is the only place I have tried - perhaps they were inferior mussels to her newly gussied-up taste buds?

Olives would be a total no no - unless they gave them out as a snack at nursery of course - she eats everything there.

Mind you, I am a recent olive convert and even now I can only stomach the green ones - I pick all the black ones off pizzas even.

My toddler is embarrassingly middle class sophisticated in her food tastes, although DH and I don't eat olives as they're the work of the devil, so to my knowledge she's never tried one. Anything beige from the freezer or that you can buy in McDonald's is refused but if I get the humous or pesto out of the fridge, perhaps a jar of artichoke hearts in olive oil, she devours it and shouts "MORE MORE MORE"

DH and I love beige shite from the freezer so feck knows where she's got her foodie taste buds from!

My DS likes olives but only green basics ones from Sainsburys. Does this make him middleclass or a pleb? He sucks on them and goes 'Yum. Salty' with a sort of glazed expression like Homer Simpson and donuts. TBF he had his first piece of bacon recently and did the same thing- sucked on it and went 'Yum. Salty'.
I think he's going to be a salt fiend like his grandfather.

I am 70 and I hate olives. My dgs loved them from age 2 when he called them 'dirty grapes'!

This thread is daft. Olives, guacamole, anchovies, serrano ham, gruyere, goats cheese, papaya, lentils, quince paste, sushi, grated beetroot, pistachios, walnuts, artichokes and tomatoes, salad are all consumed with gusto in our house. I'd never describe eating these things as a milestone or even think of them as unusual - my DC just eat what we have in the fridge/cupboard. When it comes to food my only policy is that they eat something from each food group every day, I don't want them to be fussy.

But you have very naice fridge contents MrsM - sadly for DD, ours mainly consists of squeezy yogurts, milk and wine.

Is it the culinary equivalent of reading Harry Potter at 5?

In Spain, they're not like this about mashed potato, you know.

Hahah... one of my friends take the mickey out of me because my kids eat feta cheese/olives etc and makes MC jibes. I happen to have a parent from a med country so these things are just normal for me and I grew up with them and everyone eats them.

I didn't like olives until I was 35 and yes I consider it a milestone. I'm a proper grown up now.

I don't think it's a milestone for children though, that would make my 2 yo DN a grown up too. It's just unusual for one so young to like things like olives, blue cheese etc.

I reached that milestone last year, after decades of trying and disliking olives. My mum finally has something she can boast about me for.

:D dawndonna

(Laughs at the prospect of Spaniards bragging about how wee Tito ate all of his Smash the night before)

Haha oh this is me! I love olives (with prosecco pre baby days....)

I love sitting munching olives with my 2 year old DD having a natter, my little grown up, she just needs to start liking houmous next

I hated them until I was 30. Then I ate some in Greece and was converted. I'm still baffled I now like them. Nice fresh Greek olives with a dose of sunshine and the beach nearby is my idea of heaven.

I have two olive lovers and two olive loathers.

My Mums smug terribly MC friend always boasts her GD eats olives, cornichons, artichokes etc. She gave me quince paste for Christmas.

I had a very middle class despair (despite really not being middle class) to my gp when dd was two. She'd had a series of viruses and her asthma was really unstable. All she would eat was olives and I wailed this to the gp. The gp was 'well olives are ummm...' and I could see she was wondering how to react and she concluded slightly uncertainly '...food'.

My DD loved them at 18months and would eat them non-stop. At 10 years old she hates them and thinks they are aliens ( and mushrooms too).

There was a brilliant bunfight on here not long ago about whether or not DC should like roast dinners. Terrible parenting if they don't, or so lots of posters thought. I'm still a bit baffled by that one - why one kind of home-cooked food is any better than another is beyond me, but then ours only really get to have a roast at Xmas so clearly I'm a lost cause anyway.