Becky Hadid

Tell me a little bit about being a fussy eater.

Some kids are fussy eaters, but it sounds like it was pretty extreme in your case.

And this, to me, is a very sort of familiar from literature, but completely unfamiliar from experience, school experience.

It's so dominant in Roald Dahl.

It's really dominant, I think, in every book from any modern British author that I can think of, these sort of horrible, horrible school experiences.

And at some point, I felt they were more in the past.

Force feeding a child to the point of vomiting, you're young.

This is

Modern.

This is recent.

Right.

My instant reaction is that this really wasn't about waste.

It was about power and control.

She's right.

I mean, that's one of the major weight loss tips that they give you is drink water because then you'll, yeah, you'll have that feeling of fullness and you won't keep eating.

I really am fascinated by this whole school experience because like I said, I always thought it was sort of exaggerated for narrative purposes.

When you say they would...

No, it doesn't sound that way.

When you say they would make you just, children can say no.

And you would vomit and the reaction would be ho-hum, like sympathy.