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).

Nah. My friend's kids will eat olives but they're fussy buggers about just about everything else.

It's like Paltrow saying her daughter's first word was hummus. As if , it was probably "mummy is pretentious"

If you're worried about the salt content of olives stored in brine, just before serving, pop a portion in a sieve and rinse under the cold tap, pat dry on kitchen roll.

Surely the fact that they think that eating olives is something sophisticated and worth boasting about, shows that they aren't really that sophisticated? Does that make sense? Food is food, some the DDs like, some they don't. Both however like pickled herrings which are, as far as I'm concerned, devil food along with caviar.....I blame their father.

Ladyn and Mrsb y'see I love a roast in theory but I'm veggie, DP isn't but doesn't like to feel too full (wuss) and DD1 currently rejects all potatoes and any identifiable meat except sausages so it's just pointless really.

I could probably dress up the unimaginative pasta and things involving lentils as protein in disguise as some kind of brag if I put my mind to it (not so much the warburtons sandwich thins with cheese spread though).

Spurious nooo you're missing the point - it's not about whether junior's sophisticated tastes make him a better person, it's about how it shows that you're the better parent. Same with roasts/whatever - as per old thread, not reasonable roast-enthusiasts on here, of course.

My children don't like olives but they were clear from a very young age that they preferred the green supermarket to the orange one, or, God forbid, the yellow one. The yellow one was nearest ;).
One prefers a nice piece of poached salmon and a medley of fresh veg; the other prefers chips. But they're Waitrose chips so that's all OK and mumsnetty then ;).

Yuck yuck yuck.

That's all.

The DCs' love if olives is their party trick. Their enthusiasm for olives and humous is very welcome as their food allergies have kept them away from many nibbly snacks.

I think very often people are just making conversation rather than boasting.

My dh (who is uber competitive) is always commenting about how so-and-so was being competitive with him or one of our dc. I honestly don't notice and couldn't give a flying fuck.

I think it takes a competitive parent to realise that someone else is being competitive, in a nutshell. The rest of us are oblivious.

My DS (3yo) loves olives, as does his older sister. Not a surprise as I'm half Greek Cypriot and adore them too. They love hummus, feta, halloumi, cured meats and cured fish, salamis, and the likes. That's not us trying to be ever so middle class or them hitting a milestone - it's simply them eating the things that I was brought up on and love.

However and I'm going to sound like an utter twat, but here goes DS also loves (decaf) Earl Grey and has done since he was about 18mth old .

Oh please don't turn liking olives into a thing!

Dd has had it flagged up that she probably has Aspergers. She's 7. She has many food 'things' and we have endured countless judgy moments at other people's dinner tables. My one saving grace through that was knowing she'd eat her own weight in olives and it somehow showed I wasn't guilty of beige food. She had good taste and I wasn't a shit parent.

My dd is a normal fussy eater in most ways she likes plain pasta and cheese for dinner most nights and the only veg she will eat is cucumber, but we often went to those food festivals where you can taste things when she was little and she liked those and developed a liking for pickled garlic and blue cheeses and all that sort of thing. She once had a strop because we didn't go to a restaurant and get mussels as my Gran was coming and she can't eat them. It hasn't made her any less fussy in everyday life though sadly.

My boys will eat neither olives nor mash, btw.

Though i have a suspicion that uber-fussy DS2 would quite like tapenade mind. He's all about the salty.

Haunted - same reasoning, too. DS2's pickiness is all ASD. He likes marmite and loves peanut butter and melted strong cheddar. He quite likes chilli, but not while he;s still in nappies, tyvm.

Oh dear! I am sure that I once said how pleased I was that my toddler daughter ate olives, stuffed cherry tomatoes and hummus (grazing from our table, i don't deliberately give her that stuff) but that was only in comparison to my son who only eats chips and chicken nuggets covered in tomato sauce!!

So now Im embarrased!

But considering it a milestone, well, that is just hilarious ;)

DD is a fussy eater, but loves olives. She loves everything salty. I think she could live on cured meats and chocolate...with a bit of pasta thrown in.

Ha ha I once tricked DS1 into eating an olive as he thought it was a grape. He wasn't amused!

I love olives. And so do my dc. Its not a milestone, its a fact. Some people like them, some don't. So what.

I know a toddler who would swig from jif lemon juice bottles predictably he loved olives

I love olives, all kinds, but fat juicy green ones are my favourite. I didn't try them til I was a teenager but I have always loved salty food so I think it's just a tastebud thing. TheLast I think I am the same as your DD I'm not fussy but give me an antipasti platter instead of a big pud any day.

I call olives solidified snot....not a milestone I'm too bothered with

Apparently, everyone can like olives, but you have to eat 27 olives first. So if you or children don't like them, you must reach the 27 olive consumption milestone. I used to hate them, but funnily enough after about 27 I suddenly loved them.

"more" and "olive" were the first two words ds strung together. That was a milestone.

I see it on here sometimes and always thought it was odd...maybe it's just an American thing but my parents were definitely working class and we always had olives. I don't think of them as a "sophisticated" food.

They are foul, disgusting things that couldn't taste any worse if you had to eat them straight out of a tramp's arse.