Yesterday I picked the kids up early from school. Cady had a follow up appointment with the podiatrist about her leg pain (have I told y’all about that yet?). I was kind of in a hurry because her appointment was at 4:10 and I had to have them back home, fed, dressed, and at the school for the PE program started at 6:00. Last time we were there it took longer than I expected so I was worried that we would really be pushing it.
It was just one of those days where I was on edge and pretty much everything they were doing was pushing my buttons. I snapped at them a couple of times about minor stuff that normally wouldn’t bother me. Of course all of that just made me feel like a huge asshole.
The appointment went really quick and we were out of there by a quarter after four. I decided to let them choose a place to pick up dinner to make up for my jerkiness. Of course they picked nuggets. Because isn’t that what all kids want every single time you take them somewhere to eat?
As we were driving to the restaurant I heard them talking in the backseat. I have no idea how this conversation started by the way, just fyi.
Cady: “Chicken nuggets come from dead chickens.”
Bud: “Uh-unh.”
Cady: “Yes they do.”
Bud: “No dey don’t.”
Cady: “Yes, the chicken we eat is dead chicken.”
Bud: “You wrong.”
Cady: “I’m not wrong. We eat dead chicken.”
Bud: “Nuh-unh. Momma Cady’s lyin’.”
Me: “No Bud, she’s telling you the truth. When we eat chicken that is from a chicken that used to be alive and was killed to make food.”
Bud: “No. Dat’s not right.”
Me: “Well Bud, where does chicken come from then?”
Bud: “McDonald’s!”
We never did convince him that the chicken we eat comes from a dead bird. Also? I really need to open them up to food besides chicken nuggets.
Too funny!
When my middle one, Em, was about 4 she looked at the chicken on her plate and said “momma, I bet this chicken doesn’t like us eating it”. She’s now a vegetarian! Refuses to eat meat because she doesn’t like the way animals raised for food are treated.
Sometimes I think Cady could be a vegetarian. Not because of the ethical issues, but because she just isn’t all that crazy about meat.
He’s SO cute!
The girls went through a stage, when they loved to ask, “Is this a dead cow? Or pig?”
That’s the stage Cady is in. James isn’t really taking to it.
Ahh, what a sweetheart!
To think back when the world was so easy you could just reject the reality and make up your own.
Yes. If only things could stay that easy.
LOL! That is too funny. I love kid’s perspective on things.
Their perspective is usually way better than an adult’s.
Haha! Noah is a grilled cheese guy. He used to eat nuggets on occasion and then he saw a news story about the pink slime and now he won’t eat at McDonald’s or Burger King (they don’t have grilled cheese) and only orders grilled cheese at Sonic. He’s a funny little man.
I’m not sure even pink slime would keep my kids from their nuggets.
Well you have to give Bud credit for his logic. Nuggets don’t really look like chicken. I think he is on to something.
My son loves chicken nuggets, but “real” meat not so much.
True, but he couldn’t even relate the chicken we eat at home to the bird. Then when she told him that hamburgers were cows he really lost it.
Best commercial for McDonalds EVER!!! So glad you overheard this and shared it with us. I love kid’s minds!!
He says funny stuff ALL the time, but I forget it when I don’t write it down right away.
That’s too funny!!
Thursday nights, Jdaddy has school (actually, tonight is his last one until fall), and I let the kids pick where we pick up dinner. McDonald’s is usually high on the list. We’ve recently added Wendy’s, Subway, and Taco Bell. I’m waiting for the Sonic to open, to hopefully have another option. Arby’s is a no-go.
I need more options in our rotation.
These kinds of things make me want to take my kids to a farm to see how it actually all goes/works. I think it would be quiet eye opening, you know?
Too cute! My son asks where does chicken come from too. A cow? No, it comes from a chicken. No, I mean where does it come from. Like a pig? It comes from a chicken. Chicken comes from chicken. lol He just doesn’t get it.