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[quote=Anonymous][quote]People have commented that I don't know for sure that he doesn't eat vegetables. He once launched into a five-minute monologue about why even his grandfather shouldn't like to eat vegetables either. Of course, I won't be force-feeding him anything but I don't want to stand and listen to him complaining "Ewwww…I don't like this. I want XYZ" But at the same time, I know I was raised in a different culture and that my approach about telling him that such behavior is impolite may be seen as being too direct (based on the responses here). I'm not his servant, I'm his host. I wouldn't feel any differently even if he was an adult.[/quote]

You are not his parent, or even his grandparent, and it is not your job to "fix" his dislike of vegetables or picky eating.  It is your job to host him while he's at your house, but you seem intent on making that more difficult and unpleasant for everyone than it needs to be.  You are within your rights to tell him "we don't talk like that about food that someone prepared for us here" if he is complaining or saying "eeewww."  Tell him he can say "no thank you" instead.  Have bread, fruit, and sandwich fillings available for him to make his own meal if he is unwilling to eat what you served.  This is not  a big deal and you don't need to create drama about it.[/quote]

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