7 vegetables...

chinese moms, as culturally ingrained, have a certain knack of believing in anything they read or hear. other than cultural specifics, i would go as far to blame chinese media for instilling everyday "fear of everything" due to it's "gossip and exaggerate about everything" nature. so, moms will take their blinder-news source, re-interpret it, and apply it to their children in that perfectly overbearing manner. it's not just, "eat your vegetables", it's "you must eat 7 different types of fruits and vegetables daily", and it's not just "eat your 7 veges", it's "if u don't eat your 7 veges, you'll turn out like that auntie who is hunched back, has no teeth, hair is falling out and has boils all over ur arse"...."and she's only 40!"....

the maternal reflex kicks in about every 20 minutes when im with my mom. for the record, there was a period of time when my mom was preaching "drinking urine" cures cancer. (not that she did it, but she did seem to believe it)

how about u?