Picky Eating.

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We are planning a meal out over the festive period and everyone is having the restaurant's standard Christmas Fayre menu - there are four choices for each course turkey, beef, fish or vegetarian option. However one person's teenaged daughter has refused everything on the menu and wants something off the main restaurant menu and has insisted on having lasagne. Now, that would be fair enough but amongst the reasons she has given for refusing the set menu is "I don't like turkey and doesn't eat beef". I pointed out to her mother she was having beef because it is a beef lasagne. Her mother then explained that when they do bolognese at home the daughter won't eat that either and has to have something different. Er, but bolognese is the basis of the lasagne... Oh and she will eat burgers but only if they get them from one particular fast food chain. She will also eat "turkey twizzlers" but not turkey. So, she's just being a picky madam and getting attention by insisting on different foods to the rest of us. It will also cost her parents twice as much as everyone else's meal is costing. I can take it when someone has a special dietary requirement or genuinely doesn't like something but this is just being awkward and her parents know it but won't put a stop to it. Do you know anybody who bends over backwards for somebody who is a picky eater just to get attention and make a fuss?