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Plain hamburger story was a reminder about picky eaters

By Ralph Roy Waggener

About your plain hamburger story! All my family, three sisters plus two brothers, and even E.P., my dad, ate anything just about! I on the other hand only eat a very limited diet, using almost no condiments except ketchup and only when it's cooked in something, I don't use vinegar in any way, no salad dressings of any kind!

Life when you are different has a lot of problems, E.P. and I traveled when I was very young and back in those days it was customary to stay with relatives and eat with them and Dad would make over the meal, so much to my embarrassment!



I got to where I just would not go to anyone's house because I'd have to tell people I did not eat things that they thought were good. Sour things there was no way I was going to eat and still don't. Anything pickled I don't like to taste, see or even talk about - just don't like them in any way, shape or form!

Being different ain't no fun, that I can tell you as a known fact because I've lived 75 years doing this and it will make you unsociable and not let you be comfortable going to most anyone's home to eat! My Daughter Lee Grider and my granddaughter Jade Waggener are somewhat like me in that they are what other folks call a picky eater!

At one time we were at one of my sister's homes for a meal where there was absolutely nothing there at all that either Lee or I could eat, not that this was on purpose, it's just that people who eat all things just can't understand us so-called picky eaters! Please understand I'm not complaining, but just telling people who have the ability to eat anything and enjoy it to please cut us picky eaters some slack, it's not by choice we are picky eaters we were just born that way! Thanks, Ralph Roy Waggener, who is one odd ball person and I know it, yes, I'm a different person than a lot of people and I'm OK with it!


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