I was one of those kids that ate the bread slices before eating the meat on sandwiches. Yes, I was one of those weird kids. When I was little, I was never very fond of anything except cheese and meat. My general philosophy with eating is to eat the items I don’t enjoy first, saving the best for last.
This is why I was happy to find out that In N’ Out burger offers the Flying Dutchman: two meat patties with cheese and nothing else. The child inside me perked up and ordered it. Finally, a dish that would spell the end of toughing out the veggies and bread!
Recently, they’ve done studies where kids were given a single marshmallow. Then, they were told that if they could wait for 5 minutes without eating the marshmallow, they would get another marshmallow. Some kids ate it, while other dutifully waited for an extra marshmallow. The researchers interviewed the kids decades later. It turns out that there is a correlation between waiting for the second marshmallow and successful qualities of patience, hard work, and success. The kids who quickly gobbled up their sugary confection were the ones who were more spontaneous and erradic in their lives. I suppose this puts me into the former camp. Either that, or I was just a chubby little kid.