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hog-wash!!
Can you really say that children cannot dine in the same eateries as their parents and thoroughly enjoy the experience.
For many years, as a family, we have pored through the menu. cafe or fine dining. - We all choose something different and we discreetly share till we are sure the younger ones are happy - we can always swap if they're not, as the older ones have developed a taste for pretty much everything. This way we now have a 31 year old, a 28 year old and a 14 year old that not only get excited about trying something new, They experiment in the kitchen too. 2 of them took after me and are accomplished chefs.
Cultures all over the world hit their kids with flavour and spice from the word go - Tripe, squid,chillies, blood mixed with milk, offal.
We're not all culinary heathens. And it's unfair to generalise.
To end. The western world has, in general a very low expectation of what their kids can eat and what they are offered in restaurants...They are not often dissapointed are they?