He had alligator and frog legs at his insistence last week.

My 10-y.o. nephew has finally grown out of his many-year-long refusal to eat anything but croutons dipped in ranch dressing, and has discovered the coolness of various foods. When they were down in Florida for spring break, he asked if they could go to the Japanese grill restaurant at Epcot--apparently, he had been to a birthday party at a similar restaurant in NJ and loved it.

The boy loves drinking the juice from canned green beans

I do that. Salty green beany deliciousness. Also, canned beet juice. Yum.

Also, would sushi count as raw food? I mean, it's raw, right?

Nope. The rice is cooked.

I've had some raw dishes at restaurants -- there's a vegan restaurant where I like to have my parents take me for my birthday where we usually end up ordering one or two raw appetizers. Generally pretty good, but really not filling enough for every meal, all the time.

-t, no offense, you and the nephew are strange. If there is one thing I cannot stand, it's canned beans and carrots. Don't even talk about their juice.

I do not claim normalcy. In fact, I am surprised that anyone else does it and expect he'll grow out of it eventually.

I agree that canned carrots are gross, though.

Sashimi, maybe, on the raw question. But I'm not sure there's a lot of rawists out there who didn't come via veganism.

I like canned green beans a lot. I kind of consider them a whole different thing than real beans, though, even though they are, in fact, real beans. Kind of like Kraft parm isn't real parm, even though it is (and I like it, too, though totally differently). I don't like other canned vegs, though. Oh, well, corn. I like canned corn.

Canned corn I give a pass. And tomatoes. Though as Jen notes, different thing from the real thing (note most of the time, I use frozen.) And things like black, pinto, navy, etc. But those are short cuts and don't differ too much.

But you people with the canned green beans and carrots! They taste like CAN. Do you munch on cans from the recycling bin?!!

My cat likes drinking the liquid from canned beans. And the beans themselves.

I have a friend who was an ovo/lacto vegetarian for about 15 years. But then, for some reason, she felt the diet wasn't working for her body anymore, and starting slowly adding fish into her diet, and eventually some meat. It's funny because I still think of her as vegetarian, and plan nights out to places with good vegetarian selections, even though she will eat meat.

My sister had her fibroids out today, and her surgeon took photos of her with her womb outside her body.

Is that normal?