<story><title>The UX on this small child is terrible</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>My kid (~2 years) prefers to eat food they like the taste of most.&lt;p&gt;Turns out that they prefer the sweet tastes of biscuits and even bananas etc to broccoli and carrots.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ll whinge and whine about being hungry, so you offer them some peas or avocado or something and they will literally push it out of the way, look you straight in the eye, and tell you about how hungry they are (...but not hungry enough to eat the veggies in front of them!).  Offer them crisps or biscuits or even just fruity-yoghurt and they&amp;#x27;ll scoff it down super-fast because presumably it tastes nicer.&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t blame them really.</text></item><item><author>cpursley</author><text>Can somebody explain the &amp;quot;won&amp;#x27;t eat vegetables&amp;quot; thing? The only place I&amp;#x27;ve heard about this being in issue is in America.</text></item><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>quadrangle</author><text>I can understand peas, but avocado is fatty indulgent wonderful food. Not liking avocado is absurd. It&amp;#x27;s like not liking peanut-butter.&lt;p&gt;Side-note: I learned the most grotesque aberration that shows how the U.S. is orders of magnitude into complete dysfunction: there&amp;#x27;s something called &amp;quot;diet peanut butter&amp;quot; (learned about this because of a warning I saw online not to give it to dogs). WTF is &amp;quot;diet peanut butter&amp;quot;???? Peanut butter is this rich, delicious oily food. It doesn&amp;#x27;t need a damn thing to be a great treat. But in the U.S., it&amp;#x27;s not only typically salted, they add a large amount of sugar. That&amp;#x27;s already insanely stupid. You want to cut out the sugar? Just enjoy the plain amazing peanut butter on its own!! Nope, they made &amp;quot;diet&amp;quot; by swapping the sugar for xylitol or something. INSANE.&lt;p&gt;P.S. I live in and grew up in the U.S., I&amp;#x27;m judging my own country.</text></comment>
<story><title>The UX on this small child is terrible</title><url>https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-ux-on-this-small-child-is-terrible</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mattlondon</author><text>My kid (~2 years) prefers to eat food they like the taste of most.&lt;p&gt;Turns out that they prefer the sweet tastes of biscuits and even bananas etc to broccoli and carrots.&lt;p&gt;They&amp;#x27;ll whinge and whine about being hungry, so you offer them some peas or avocado or something and they will literally push it out of the way, look you straight in the eye, and tell you about how hungry they are (...but not hungry enough to eat the veggies in front of them!).  Offer them crisps or biscuits or even just fruity-yoghurt and they&amp;#x27;ll scoff it down super-fast because presumably it tastes nicer.&lt;p&gt;Can&amp;#x27;t blame them really.</text></item><item><author>cpursley</author><text>Can somebody explain the &amp;quot;won&amp;#x27;t eat vegetables&amp;quot; thing? The only place I&amp;#x27;ve heard about this being in issue is in America.</text></item><item><author>plaidfuji</author><text>How do I get new features added to the roadmap? I’ve been asking for an “eat vegetables” interface without the “offer dessert in exchange” workaround for over a year, no response, yet in the same time frame I’ve seen things like “climb top-heavy bookshelf” and “unfurl entire toilet paper roll” deployed… who is asking for these features??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackerfromthefu</author><text>Classic symptoms of sugar addiction. I&amp;#x27;ve found it takes around three weeks without sugar to reset this, then the sugar cravings hacking the system disappear.</text></comment>