Overheard around my dinner table last night:
Jacob: Wow! This is the best chicken I’ve ever had in my life!
Me: (stunned…then exhilarated) Thank you, honey! That is so nice of you to say! I’m thrilled that you are enjoying your dinner.
Jacob: Well, at this house. It’s the best chicken I’ve had at this house. I’ve had better chicken at Steak and Shake.
Me: (rapidly deflating)
Morgan: And that Chinese place that Daddy takes us to has better chicken than this.
Me: (Daddy, Daddy, Daddy...grrrr!)
Jacob: Well, for this house this is good. I could eat a whole barrel of this chicken.
Morgan: Yeah, me too. A whole barrel. Or I could eat a whole barrel of Steak and Shake chicken.
Jacob: Yeah, Steak and Shake….
I simply cannot wait to cook dinner tonight. Can you feel the sarcasm oozing through the keyboard? Maybe we'll just go to Steak and Shake and order a barrel of the best chicken ever.
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I'm guessing that Mo's cooking class has not really given her an appreciation for the less romantic aspects of cooking! Next time I see them I'm going to start waxing poetic about SnS chicken and see what develops.
ReplyDeleteI have found the best way to get them to appreciate their dinner is to make them do the cooking.
ReplyDeleteI want to get a set of that Barrel china you have goin' around there. Do y'all eat from barrels a lot?
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking of marketing Barrel China. I'm thinking it would do quite well in the US, Land of Gigantic Portions. No wonder my kids are so skinny! I've been serving them food on 8" plates while they've been longing for barrels full of food! Yet another failure as a mother.
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