picky-picky

The pets she conjured — Ribsy, Picky-Picky, Socks and Bandit, among others — are as indelible as the humans who served their kibble.

The Bard of Klickitat Street, the creator of Beezus and Ramona, their friend Henry Huggins, the mutt Ribsy and the cat Picky-Picky.

Consider the passage in Cleary's book in which Picky-Picky interrupts the family dinner with grumpy meows.

If more than one-third of people in a large sample don't know the broadest definition of vegetarian, one wonders how they can be trusted with something much more difficult: the full-time care and picky-picky feeding of their bodies, whatever their dietary preferences.