-Deep fried lard encrusted possum gizzards
-All natural soggy emu droppings
-Beets
-Mind over matter mutton brain puree
-Jellyfish eyeball retinal fluid infused bag balm on moldy toast
I'm not sure if this is a, not-so-subtle, comment about the meals I prepare for the family, but if so I'm not taking the hint. My favorite part is that he equated beets with the rest of disgusting inventions. So I bought beets and we had them with dinner last night! (All in good fun, right Peeter?) One must be careful messing with my dinner plans! Oh and in case you think these are things we just might eat, I do draw the line at "droppings", emu or otherwise.
*After reading this Greg wanted me to point out that though the girls in the family like beets, this was Micaiah's general reaction to them:
He actually got into trouble 3 times for pretending to vomit them back up onto his plate. See my kids won't eat everything either!
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To show how much Jeni and I differ in our view of beets, I offer the following:
I returned from taking Charis to gymnastics to find Jeni in a less than amused state. She said she had to force Micaiah to eat just one beet, and after each bite he was gagging, pretending to puke, and spitting it back onto his plate. Her story made me laugh out loud b/c that's pretty much my reaction. She did not appreciate the humor in the situation for some reason. :)
I don't know if that shows more difference in our taste for beets or in our parenting style (or lack thereof, in my case). Eggplants...fine...squash...pretty good, actually...but beets...they still taste like dirt to me.
...I still think his antics were hilarious...
Just in case you guys are starting to think of me as some sort of "Beet Nazi", I was only trying to get him to eat one bite of one beet, not even a whole slice. And I personally don't care if he ever likes beets, it was his attitude that got him in trouble, not his lack of finding beets delicious.
I just read your post to Dave and we can't stop laughing. Sorta reminds us of dinner at our house tonight. I served cauliflower soup (which was amazing! but only to me, I guess). They ate it, but not with enthusiasm (okay, Simon basically had to be forced). :) I think I should try to make some beets sometime too - that would REALLY be fun to watch!
No Beets for you!
Oh Greg, don't you know that Jeni can always puree up some tasty beets and slip into food when you least expect it? I'm just glad you weren't there for Kaizer's actual theatrics...you would have gotten in big trouble too!
Yeah, on second thought I really should've let this go. Jeni never makes anyone "clean their plate", but she does insist that everyone at least tries everything on their plate. And I'm glad she didn't back down and let the Kaizer's rotten attitude get away with it.
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