Heh, I know all about Niagara Falls because I live in the Buffalo suburbs.
As far as trying new foods, I was always good about it. There's a few things I don't like, but I am used to a wide diversity. When I was ~10 I was in Toronto to see a museum exhibit with my mother, and we were eating dinner in the hotel restaurant. It was a fairly fancy place, and there were evidently some snobbish people around. Did I order something from the kids menu? No, I ordered spinach soup with quail out of my own free will. And ate it all. So it is certainly possible to keep an open mind about food, even as a kid.
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