One possible humorous reason there is an explosion of picky eaters is because of the breakdown in the traditional family. In the old days father, mother, siblings, child and extended family ate the same thing breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Nobody (even adults) in the child’s life had food options, ergo the child doesn’t automatically think it has options. If anybody complained or had a reason to eat his own thing in the traditional family it was the father, and he never complained publicly or to his wife, as she has her own list of complaints about him. Thus, dad…