Foiled Again

"Can I have cake?"
"If you eat something healthy first for dinner."
"What's healthy?"
"This turkey is healthy."
"I don't want turkey."
"Why not?"
"I never had that kind before. I don't like it."
"How do you know you don't like it if you've never tasted it?"
"Well, I don't like trying someping I never tried before. Because then I don't know what it will taste like, and I don't know if it will be good, and I don't know if I will like it."

Well, duh. WAS THERE ANY OTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT THINGS??

Actually, I've heard this rationale before, and from an adult - a very close friend who has never actually tasted the likes of whipped cream, because that would just be way too wild and crazy and would you jump off the Brooklyn bridge just because everyone else was?

Yeah, that's right. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE.

"Just try it, Elan. It's only turkey. Take a tiny bite, see if you like it, and decide the rest from there. It's not such a big risk."
"O-ka-ay..."

24 HOURS LATER:

"Mommy, can I have my gum?"
"Sure, honey, here's a piece."
"Do you want a piece, too? You can have one if you want..."
"No thanks."
"Why not? Have one!"
"I don't want it."
"Why?"
"It's orange. I only chew mint gum."

Pause.

"You know, Mommy, you don't seem to like tasting new 'hings eiver."

I look at Y, open-mouthed, who says, simply: "Yes. He'll always outsmart us."