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This is what I get for thinking out loud on tumblr, I get OVERWHELMED by the replies oh god there’s just too many. Here’s a couple comments I keep seeing:

“None of the characters know how to cook, so Steven has no options.”

You can eat fruits and veggies raw! Writing-wise there’s literally no obstacle that prevents Steven from eating healthy stuff. Any character could cook - or learn to cook - for any number of reasons. It wouldn’t change any fundamentals of the story. Steven himself can already make pancakes. I also recall some source saying that Pearl’s interested in cooking as an art even if she won’t eat any.

“This is how some people actually live, it’s just realistic.”

Welp, in my country fast food is an occasional thing for most people and eating that stuff every day is considered pretty sad and lazy. I guess it’s kind of a… culture shock… the way the show makes NO comment on Steven’s eating habits, as if it’s completely normal and expected. There’s Connie for comparison, though - she has a really strict diet which is basically a joke about her control freak parents. There’s no middle ground on this show, is there?

“Lol who cares?”

I honestly don’t mean to sound condescending about this, everyone should be allowed to eat whatever they like. Hell I’m not a health nut either, I eat candy or ice cream almost every day. I just can’t see a logical reason why the writers/artists feed nothing else but junk to their characters. I don’t think Steven eating an apple or a banana would seem out of character at all, but it just never happens??

“There was that watermelon episode!”

Yeeeeeah that happened.