We need a word for the chicken nuggets and mac & cheese crowd
Now we all know that chicken nuggets and mac & cheese are delicious, I'm not trying to suggest otherwise. I'm talking about the very specific subset of people that have this childish, "I don't wanna!" mindset that think it's perfectly fine to eat the same baby ass dopamine rush junk week in and week out while forsaking the notion that vegetables are even edible and acting like being made to ingest anything with some god damn nutrients in it violates the Geneva Convention.
"Picky eaters" is the go-to but fails on a few levels because it also encompasses normal children, people with high standards for their food instead of garbage standards, and people who are just regular old non-adventurous and boring.
"Childish eaters" is close but fails on the level that people who have more normal and diverse diets, but also have a smattering of 'immature' foods mixed in, can be labeled it as well. Like a guy who can eat a caprese salad just fine but then will have Fun Dip or a Flintstones Push-Up Pop for dessert.
"Manbaby" I think most hones in on the foundational issue, but also fails to specify the exact phenomena. Like I would call that cop guy from Andor a 'manbaby' also but in a grown mama's boy way and could see him eating whatever healthy food his mom told him to.
I just think it would be easier if we had a way to specify this sort of person so we can speak to the issues involved without the discourse devolving into semantics and deflections.
For context, the image is a character in a Key & Peele skit who has his own microwave frozen pizza while his family is eating a completely inoffensive meal of chicken, rice, and broccoli.