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I thought this was a widely known study that was done decades ago? I was told about it when I was a kid. Weird.

I never got when people said it tastes "soapy" but it definitely tastes wrong to me. I'd say more like what people think of when they say something tastes like earwax. Grassy earwx. Yuck! Bitter as all hell and coats my tongue and won't go away.
I don't think its genetic though. Never have. I've watched generational gaps of my family scarf down cilantro covered things and I'm the only one who can't do it.

Totally with ISA, I hate that most mobiles you see (even store bought) look cute to mom and dad but for the baby its very meh.

We bought the most colorful, rotating one I could find and I got down to his height to pick them and see what looked most interesting. The big draw of ours is that is does move. Not at all knocking homemade mobiles but I find many times they can be more cute to give the parents or make as parents but do very little in terms of visual stimulation for the baby.

Sorry, but sausage casings mixed with chocolate cake makes my stomach turn.

Totally with Ulrikedg- foam shapes ROCK in the tub. Dump a thing of them in and watch kids go nuts sticking them to the walls. Tub crayons were my favorite growing up. Also, kid meal toys. They're cheap, usually ok to dump in water and no big deal if it breaks/ wears out.

To think- my favorite thing in the tub was my mom's old original Barbie dolls! She must have bit her lip so hard watching her little girl splish splash with what surely would be worth a pretty penny had I not gone for a few dips with them!

I grew up in New Orleans but lived just outside town. All my friends houses were 100's of years old and had cool histories and old bricks and wood and that old antique smell. So mostly the smell. Smelled old in a good way. Also, tight steep stairs. Like, it was a struggle to climb them!

If Ron Swanson won't eat fish (Fish meat is practically a vegetable) how dare you assume he'd eat felafel and tofu!

Bite your tongue.

Huh...lived there my whole life and never seen the stuff before (know what it is and all that jazz but never seen it to buy) Its basically molasses but its not. Its boiled sugar juice basically whereas molasses is whats left after sugar crystals are extracted from sugar cane. Taste is similar, but I'd guess the cane syrup to be a bit milder but sweeter. So use it like you would molasses or, if you can, sub it from brown sugar. I found this here on rough guidlines for how to interchange them
http://www.livestrong.com/article/348339-how-to-substitute-cane-syrup-for-brown-sugar-in-cookies/

I don't think most people are close minded about these things in terms of being calorie conscious. Anyone who knows how to cook beyond microwaving a meal knows salt, char, spice, etc will give flavor. A boiled piece of chicken will taste pretty gross but the same chicken ,even unseasoned, on a grill is pretty tasty. But its very hard for those tasty char marks or chipotle rub to stack up against some creamy mac and cheese or buttery breads or whatever other higher calorie options its up against. These help, but by no means are saving graces of eating healthy.

Haha I can't say my parents ever encouraged me to make mud pies...that would have been dangerous! But this is a really cute idea! I could hear my mom right now coiling up at the thought of this and pinworms from playing in the mud all day!

It's funny, I was just reading about the top most hated names of the year and it is the same as most of the most popular! For every person crazy about naming their kids Jayden or Aiden or whatever, there's just as many who hate it.

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/most-hated-baby-names-is-your-kids-on-the-list-2480235.html

I couldn't do naming our son a trendy name. We went with traditional. My thinking as a kid and now, if I can't find the name in one of those spinny things of souvenir license plates or pencils or whatever, I won't name my kid that. Works for me just as I'm sure the uber-trendy names works for others.