[deleted]
Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
21–30 of 57 posts
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#22I learnt to read from this book.
It had been read to me so many times I knew every word,
and while watching along, the change from `i am sam` to `sam i am` is where it all clicked.
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#23For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to your kid at about the time they become more picky with their food. So the book is a lesson too. Some days I really want to read this book to my kid: https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663
We had some luck by serving the food family style and having them serve themselves a bit of everything. Its easier to try when it wasn't forced on you.
Also, serving the same thing many times over (not necessarily frequently) helped too - extended exposure.
My kids are all picky eaters but they all love broccoli, I'll take that as a win.
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#24Green Eggs and Ham, narrated by the Reverend Jesse Jackson on SNL in 1991, after the death of Dr. Seuss.
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#25For the record, my 10 year old self actually made green eggs.
I was trying to make scrambled eggs. I put some Cayenne pepper in. I dumped a bunch. I realized it was hot. I had heard that mint would make food taste less hot. So I dumped in more and more and more and more.
Eventually it turned green. But didn't stop being waaay too hot to my 10 year old self. (I'm sure that my 50 year old self would find it mild.)
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#26This is a great article and the content very interesting about the books.
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#27For me the genius of "green eggs and ham" is that you read it to your kid at about the time they become more picky with their food. So the book is a lesson too. Some days I really want to read this book to my kid: https://www.amazon.com.au/You-Have-F-king-Eat/dp/1501238663
That lesson can backfire. When my father decided to treat me to "green eggs and ham" on my birthday thinking I'd be thrilled. But in order to mix in the food coloring he needed to chop the ham into pieces and scramble the eggs. Because it didn't match the image of whole ham and unbroken yolks, I hated it and threw a tantrum. I was quite the problem child.
Semi-related, my favorite cheese is Swiss because it has holes in it, and that's how cheese is portrayed in comics.
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you offer your kids food with a goat, on a boat?
We are not so desperate yet! :-) We wish he would learn the "try it" strategy for food, like the end of the book does. Once he tries it, he stuffs himself! But he seems to have learned the "deny eating strenuously" strategy of the whole story. Maybe we should apply authoritarian censorship and read him only the last few pages...
Eat the food he won't touch and exaggerate how good it tastes. If he doesn't want it after that, no sweat, otherwise it may become a power contest where he's asserting his independence (as he should be). You can also try giving a choice between "this green thing" or "that green thing".
Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#29Re: Sixty years of Green Eggs and Ham
#30“Cerf bet me fifty bucks I couldn’t write a book using only 50 words,” he said later. “I did it to show I could.” This encapsulated the lesson I learned from the recent Michael Jordan documentary - take silly bets and trivial insults seriously and you can be driven to do great things.
Hemingway also allegedly won a bet with a six-word fiction: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."