Originally Posted by
Fredd

Did you learn that trick when you were a little kid, albeit for food you
didn't want to eat?
The technique was to redistribute it, mash it down where possible, and all the while to avoid being caught by Mom "playing with your food."

LOL, no, when I was a kid and didn't want to eat food, I just refused to eat it. When my mother would insist that I eat it later, if I was hungry, rather than eating cookies, I'd complain to my grandmother that "Mom makes me eat cold food."