Clean your plate, young man, there are starving children...

[tpsbmam]

[wicket]

1. K&R

:kick:

[seabeyond]

2. if that is japan, not very good considering. and if another asian country, or china, well, they

have their own issues

[Wait Wut]

7. +1

It appears to be Japan.

[global1]

3. As A Kid Growing Up In The 50's In A Polish Blue Collar Southwest Side Neighborhood In Chicago.....

that's what my parents told me with respect to Europe.

Then as I started my career and began to travel I learned differently.

I think that many Americans have the wool pulled over their eyes and think that the U.S. is in top shape. These are the Americans that have never been out of this country.

It's amazing how much my opinion of the U.S. changed since I started to travel and see the differences.

[damntexdem]

4. And that's what Alan Sherman blamed on his being fat.

He'd been saving so many children from starving in Europe by cleaning his plate.

But both in contents of the cartoon, and in the history of the admonition, this is clearly China.

[tpsbmam]

5. When I was a kid, it was Armenia...."the starving Armenians"

The sad thing was that there were people starving in Armenia and all over the world. Did it ever go past a trite, inane saying used to get kids with plenty to eat their food? Not in my house. Now, if my parents had actually gone a little further to educate us about the real state of the world with people dying of starvation, begging for scraps to eat all over the world, including the U.S., I think it really would have made an impact. I was a sensitive, empathetic kid and would have gotten it and would have begun to realize how damn lucky we were to be so sated we had to be urged to eat.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

6. I refused to eat too much just because they wanted me to.

All my life I heard "you eat like a bird".

We had arguments at the table. I would not eat bad southern cooking boiled to death; boiled greens, tomatoes (allergic) raw onions (allergic), bell peppers (allergic), sweet peppers (allergic), catfish (trash eating fish). It went on and on.

I refused to eat stuff that I loathed. I was grown before I had broccoli. And it was GOOD with cheese sauce!!

The only non boiled greens we had was iceberg lettuce.