Made a faltering attempt to introduce a vegetable to my father’s diet today. Since I arrived he has eaten only parathas, roti, naan, rice, daal and red meat, plus a seemingly endless supply of crisps and nimko between meals. Today I ordered one of the few vegetables he will eat, i.e. peas, and he didn’t touch it, preferring instead some daal, rice and roti. I must have been an eater of ortolans and live octopi in my previous life, I’m cursed to adjust my preferences to those of pickier eaters.
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