Pointy Thing Confuses Kids

[Liar]

What's up with kids these days?
Or should I ask, what's up with some parents?
Mamas and paps of the AH, I trust you feed your offspring the right stuff.

#L


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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,91059-13233508,00.html

POINTY THING CONFUSES KIDS

Pupils on a visit to a farm confessed to staff they had never seen or eaten a carrot before.

Despite it being one of the most common vegetables in Britain, the children seemed bemused by the strange, orange object.

Other pupils asked staff at the food festival if they could be eaten raw.

Sally Jackson, joint owner of Lincolnshire Organics Farm Shop said it was mainly six and seven-year-olds who said they had never tasted a carrot.

She told the Daily Express: "And some asked, 'Can you eat it like that, don't you need to cook it first?'.

"It's one of the first foods a child eats."

She added: "We were handing out mini-carrots and quite a few children said they had never tried a carrot and some they had never eaten them raw.

"Some schools are brilliant because they are teaching children about food but there's a big gap that needs filling."

 

[Guest]

Sod what the schools are doing, where the fuck are the parents in all this???

Who feeds them at home? Sheesh.

I find that story incredibly hard to believe. My kids are always eating carrots, and they are in abundance in the supermarkets, FFS! Had they never seen them there?

Sad. Very sad.

Lou

 

[Guest]

My sons ate everything after being weaned off strained foods. When they were toddlers they'd beg me to give them my artichoke's heart (I didn't).

My rabbit, however, refuses to eat carrots or greens. He loves cabbage, bananas and mangos.

Perdita

 

[English Lady]

Beth won't eat carrot unless it's blended in with other vegetables in a sauce....but sh knows what one looks like.

Very sad indeed

 

[neonlyte]

Pupils on a visit to a farm confessed to staff they had never seen or eaten a carrot before.

Despite it being one of the most common vegetables in Britain, the children seemed bemused by the strange, orange object.

I don't understand, how do they make snowmen?

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: Pointy Thing Confuses Kids

I don't understand, how do they make snowmen?

Brilliant point, Neon. P.

 

[neonlyte]

Re: Re: Re: Pointy Thing Confuses Kids

Brilliant point, Neon. P.

Gorgeous Rose, Perdita.

Puts mine to shame

 

[ABSTRUSE]

My kids are big veggie eaters and they drink milk....does that qualify me for child abuse?

 

[Liar]

My kids are big veggie eaters

I had to read this twice. When I read 'veggie' I think 'vegetarian'. I reccomend a mixed diet, but I think I draw the line at cannibalism.

 

[Just-Legal]

My god, all I ever ate when I was little was carrots... I'm surprised I'm not orange with green hair.

Now, where did I put that pic of me with green hair... eheheh...

 

[Liar]

My god, all I ever ate when I was little was carrots... I'm surprised I'm not orange with green hair.

Now, where did I put that pic of me with green hair... eheheh...

Oh come on, you asked for it.

 

[SlickTony]

My god, all I ever ate when I was little was carrots... I'm surprised I'm not orange with green hair.

You ought to have excellent eyes, though.

My son used to love carrots as a snack, and the only reason he doesn't eat them now is that I don't buy them all the time. Last time I did buy them, I bought a huge bag of them and made a whole pitcher of juice out of them. It was delicious!

But here's my best carrot story...

When I was coming up, they were not particularly subtle about the pesticides they put on vegetables. In fact, the distributive agent for the pesticide seemed to be kerosene, which you could taste on the carrots, no matter how carefully you washed them. Never mind. We ate them anyway; we didn't know any different.

When I lived in Iran, I had a vegetable garden. This old guy from Isfahan--all the gardeners were old guys from Isfahan--came and planted all kinds of vegetables--fava beans, pole beans, eggplant, basil, oregano, dill--and, of course, carrots. Nobody knew from chemical fertilizers there--they used nice, aged, composted sheepshit.

My mother and sister came to visit me, and I gave them carrots out of the garden. My sister said they tasted "funny." The kerosene undertaste was missing.

 

[cloudy]

Little Spiderman loves carrots! If I don't buy them every week at the grocery store, he's ticked at me for the rest of the week.

What are kids eating that they don't know what they are?

 

[carsonshepherd]

Coming from a Midwest state with corn a-plenty I'm constantly amazed how people know nothing about corn.

I know adults who've never had popcorn that wasn't microwaved. I've made popcorn on the stove for people and they were AMAZED at how it tasted and thought it was "gourmet" popcorn. I've taught five people how to pop popcorn in a saucepan at two o'clock in the morning. What is wrong with people?

 

[cantdog]

It really is a dozen times better that way, carson. But so few people could feed themselves without packaged foods these days.

He said, sounding like an old fogey, dammit.

But it's sadly very true, all the same.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Carrots are the only vegetable I ever got into trouble for eating.

I was munching young ones right out of my grandmother’s garden . . . without stopping to wash them.


I bet those kids know carrots as little orange cubes mixed with the tiny green spheres in plastic freezer bags that Mom heats and serves beside the hamburger helper meat and the instant mashed potatoes.

 

[doormouse]

My father was a greengrocer, so it's impossible for my kids NOT to know what most things look and taste like.

Meat on the other hand... They will NEVER know what Ox tongue, liver (lambs fry), brains, kidneys... all that gross stuff.. tastes like while I still do the shopping.

 

[cantdog]

That stuff was much more important in contexts where people don't get good diets. There are trace minerals and such.

Modern western folks eat so well and have so many vitamins and whatnot in the diet that it's not a difficulty for you or I. Vegetarian diets have to be done carefully and deliberately to get the proteins and all that jive, and that's so easy now, with a little education about it. There's so much good fresh food available. Third world conditions, of course, are quite different; war zones are places of malnutrition and even starvation. We're very fortunate.

 

[Lucifer_Carroll]

I know what carrots are.

They're those orange bits in my Ramen.

Just because I'm a poor college student doesn't mean I let nutrition go to Hell.

 

[snooper]

I know what carrots are.

They're those orange bits in my Ramen.

Just because I'm a poor college student doesn't mean I let nutrition go to Hell.

No, no, no. They are the things that farmers hit donkeys with to make them go faster.

 

[SensualCealy]

I must admit that unless those kids lived in Ethiopia or some place like that where you cant grow anything and you dont get to eat everyday, you likely saw carrots at some point in your life!

My Daughter, just turned 11 wants to be a chef, last New Years Eve she asked that we pick up Escargots for the party. She is one kid that has tried everything even if it sounds gross, she may not like everything but she has at least tried it. Funny, she doesnt like peanut butter!

She can make the best guacamoli (sp) anyone has ever tasted, she whips up an awesome omlette, and I bet she is the only 11 yr old that could tell you what wine to serve with what meat!

Man I have it good!
LOL Cealy

 

[rgraham666]

My rabbit, however, refuses to eat carrots or greens. He loves cabbage, bananas and mangos.

Perdita

Mine hoovers down carrots. Loves celery and apple too.

Speaking of which, mine's pulling over the garbage can in the toilet again. 'Scuse me.

 

[Guest]

 

[Boxlicker101]

Carrots are the only vegetable I ever got into trouble for eating.

I was munching young ones right out of my grandmother’s garden . . . without stopping to wash them.


I bet those kids know carrots as little orange cubes mixed with the tiny green spheres in plastic freezer bags that Mom heats and serves beside the hamburger helper meat and the instant mashed potatoes.

They probably knew carrots as some kind of gooey orange stuff their mothers used to feed them when they were babies, if they can remember that long ago.

When I used to eat a whole carrot, I would eat around the core first, then the center. I did that a lot when I was a kid.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

I would like to become a wine conaîsseur. It seems so cool to sit and enjoy a glass of wine with cheese and biscuits, a glass of wine with meat, or to just sit and sip on a glas of wine with your best friend or boyfriend.

Only problem is...

I hate wine!

I think it tastes awful. Gimme a Pepsi any day...