Noodling over Butter Noodles

Just the other day, I was talking to a lovely married couple about how their two daughters (both between the ages of six and ten) refuse to touch any sort of vegetable. The mother went on to tell me that when their family of four goes out to eat at a restaurant, their girls order butter noodles (plain noodles with melted butter) because that is all they will eat. They refuse to try anything on the menu; ever. She went on about how one time while they were at a local restaurant the server brought two plates of butter noodles (by special request) to the two young girls. The butter sauce in this case included bits of parsley to which one of the girls had a tantrum because there was “green” in her butter noodles. So, they sent the bland pasta dishes back requesting plain noodles with butter, nothing else, and absolutely no parsley. ..