If It Tastes Bad, It Must Be Good for You: Difference between revisions

** In point of actual fact, Andy ''can'' cook quite well, and could probably produce tasty ''and'' highly nutritious meals if she stuck to actual, edible food. The point where she decided that the family needed to eat all healthy, all the time and [[Cordon Bleugh Chef|started experimenting with tofu, beets, and lima beans]] is where she gained her reputation of a poor chef (at least among her family).

* Too many things to name portray very healthy foods such as broccoli as being scorned by children, even some ''adults'' severely dislike broccoli. Brussels sprouts, liver and spinach are other common targets.

** It is also mostly the vegetables that have this treatment. Fruits meanwhile (culinary fruits, at least) never get the Irony of Health Food treatment. You almost never hear of someone whose parents can never get them to eat bananas, apples, or grapes. Probably because parents don't force fruits on their kids the way they do vegetables. It also helps that fruits are naturally ''sweet'', too. Or sour like citrus fruits.

** A certain birthday card shows an adult woman scraping her broccoli into the trashcan with a caption that goes something like, "One of the perks of getting old is that no one can make you eat your vegetables!"