The Blue Cheese
Parents always say they wish their children were more adventurous with food. Parents always claim they want their children to eat something beside pasta and peanut butter and frosting.
Parents lie.
Oh sure, it would be nice if the kids would expand a little. But the trouble with kids who enjoy adult foods is that they want to eat adult foods.
Let’s say, for example, that a mother has a deep and lasting affection for a specific kind of cheese – the kind of passionate attachment that cannot be put in words because its ardor might inspire jealousy in her husband, who is not and will never be a block of cheese. And then let’s say that this mother spent some of the precious grocery money on a big hunk of that cheese (Maytag Blue, let’s say), thinking that the precious item could be stashed in the fridge, where she could whittle away at it over several weeks.
Suppose that mother let her children try it.
And suppose they liked it.
My blue cheese, twenty minutes after I brought it home. It was originally three times this size.
They are gnawing on the remains as we speak.
Goodbye, dear cheese. I hardly had a chance to love you.
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My 7yo loves seafood. When he was 4 and couldn’t read yet, he picked up a kids menu at a seafood place and said, “I’ll have the crab legs.”
Needless to say, crab legs weren’t on the kids menu! Once on vacation we found all-you-can-eat seafood buffet which was great. He could eat as much of it as he wanted and we only paid the kid’s price.
DH loves seafood too but not me. He tried to encourage me to enjoy it when we first went out, but now he see’s the wisdom in being able to confiscate my shrimp cocktail, lobster tail, etc. when we go to those kind of dinners.
Oh, sad. I feel your pain. My favorite cereal in the world, the one I hardly ever buy because it’s too expensive, is Kashi GoLean Crunch. When I happen to see it on sale, I snatch it up and savor it over the next few weeks. Now my 5-year-old has decided that it’s her favorite cereal in the world too and I have to share with her. It doesn’t last nearly as long.
“the kind of passionate attachment that cannot be put in words because its ardor might inspire jealousy in her husband, who is not and will never be a block of cheese”—too funny. i love it.
Yep. BTDT. And doesn’t it figure that it’s these sorts of adult foods they decide they like, not, say squash, brussel sprouts or black bean dip?
Actually, I like squash, brussel sprouts and black bean dip. But I understand what you’re saying. If my kids decided they just adored hard-boiled eggs and capers, for instance, I would happily let them have my lifetime supply.
My 1 and 2 year old love “adult” foods cause this mama surely ain’t cooking no “kid” food like chicken nuggets. I love that they love what we love. The husband, not so much. He thinks it’s too expensive to be giving to a kid..LOL. My son LOVES cheese, but will only eat Raw cheese and gormet varities. I buy them and he devours it. My husband would prefer I buy him some Kraft singles though. ;)
Too true.
I remember my mom’s horror when it turned out I did like the lobster about which I had been nagging for half the meal. Poor woman. I didn’t know then.
Oh, that would be hard. I am secretly delighted that my husband doesn’t like stinky gooey delectable cheese – more for me!
Oh my, I feel this way about Girlkiddo. Boykiddo won’t eat anything so I’m always slightly taken aback when Girlkiddo digs into something that was supposed to be just for me. But blue cheese? ~shudder~
I like Mary’s Gone Crackers (whole grain crackers, unsalted) with butter. Just butter. When my three year old saw me eating this, he begged for one, and i figured he wouldn’t like it, because a) they are not flavored like Goldfish and b) they are not salty or sweet.
He adores them. So now if i want to indulge in buttered crackers while he’s around, i either have to share or listen to him whine.
My sympathies. My boys demand “sips” of my coffee every morning…normally they end up walking off with my mug *sigh*
We have the same problem.
Haha, my best friend gave Godiva chocolate to my Goddaughter. I was stunned, as she was only 4 and thankfully swapped me for a snickers bar! Otherwise, what a waste….
Try Cambazola – it’s a delightful mix of blue and brie. I could eat a pound of it a day and never grow weary of it.
2 of my 3 kids LOVE LOVE blue cheese. And the other 1 practically vomits about it. And can I ever remember which kids are which? No I cannot.
My two-year-old love expensive cheese, particularly six to ten-year-old cheddar.
Sigh. I’m proud, but, I would like my expensive cheese to last a little bit longer.
LOL! That is soooo true! My kids have always been ‘picky’ eaters and I have moaned over it, but now that my daughter is spreading her taste buds and eating things like salads, tasty cheeses, those yummy ‘grown-up’ Milanos…I am wishing she was back to her picky self again!
I was all smug when my oldest was two. He would eat cantalope and fresh mozzarella, and hummus and red pepper strips, and disdained things like pasta and nuggets.
Then he turned three. Now he subsists on the standard white “kid food”: bread, pasta, nuggets, cereal, milk. No fiber to be had. THANK GOODNESS he still eats cherry tomatoes. He is the only one in the family that does, so I buy them for him.
The upside of his pickiness? He won’t try new things, so when I offer him a taste of dulce de leche he will turn up his nose.