I have never participated in a food fight, just too messy - even for me. It doesn't bother me seeing it on TV, though. My parents stressed "waste not, want not." Even as a kid I knew that my not eating the handful of peas on my plate would not, in any way be able to help or hurt a starving child in another country - by the time I got them packed and shipped and they got there, they'd have gone bad anyway. But my folks never used that argument with me, I just heard it from other kids.

Great Aunt Adrian, God bless her, was wont to say, "You might as well eat it, if you don't, it'll just go to the pigs, anyway ... " and she was serious.