What is it? Indigestible!
I coax my son.
“Have a go. You may just like it.”
“Bleah!”
“I know you don’t like butter but this is different.”
“Bleah!”
“It can count as your new food for the day if you like?”
“Bleah!”
“That’s vinegar. Remember you like salt and vinegar crisps now?”
“Bleah!”
“You could have this instead of butter, every night.”
“Bleah!”
“It’s so much better for you.”
“Bleah!”
“And it will help fatten you up.”
“Bleah!”
“I thought you said you wanted to be fatter? Didn’t we agree?”
“Bleah!”
“Just dip the corner of your bread in. You don’t even have to get your fingers dirty.”
“Bleah!”
“I don’t understand? I thought you were willing to have a go?”
“I wuz.”
“Great! Off you go then.”
“Not now.”
“Why not now?”
“Because……it is different now.”
“What’s different now?”
“Dah oil and dah vinegar.”
“What’s different about them now than when they were in the bottle?”
“Dah shaping.”
“What shaping?”
“It’s bad.”
“What’s bad?”
“MOM!”
“Yes dear?”
“Don you get it?”
“Er…..no……no I don’t get it.”
“I cannot be eating of dah parallelogram.”
“!”
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August 5th, 2009 at 2:06 am
Well of course he can’t!!!!
August 5th, 2009 at 5:01 am
I’m not sure I’d eat it.
August 5th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Makes perfect sense… you can’t eat a parallelogram.
August 5th, 2009 at 6:15 am
Yep, I’m with him on this one. (Just popping in as I’m still on holiday)
August 5th, 2009 at 7:01 am
Sorry, Maddy, but the close-up looks like a skin affliction. Maybe you could present it to him in the bottle?
August 5th, 2009 at 7:10 am
I would argue that it’s a trapezoid. Can he eat a trapezoid?
August 5th, 2009 at 7:15 am
If it’s not one reason, it’s another. I’ve got 3 non-eaters… though they’re usually willing to try it. I get the “bleah” after the fact. Or the grossed out smile with a weak, “uh, it’s ok.”
August 5th, 2009 at 7:45 am
love his thinking mind if he took a bie of it it would loose its shape
August 5th, 2009 at 7:52 am
I gotta side with the boy here… don’t think I’d eat that either…
August 5th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Oh my. Having just read your post on Sandwiched Genes, the juxtaposition hits me hard. I love that you are able to find the humor in the small (and brilliant!) moments.
August 5th, 2009 at 8:14 am
That is too funny!!
August 5th, 2009 at 9:31 am
how can you argue with geometric objections? i mean really…
August 5th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
Too funny!
August 5th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
That is so funny! I might have to agree with him though – the close up doesn’t look very appetizing. : )
August 5th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Don’t know if he’s trying to be, but that’s a creative excuse.
My son will just take one look, and say “Yuck, that’s disgusting, I’m not eating that”!
what a change of pace it would be to hear “I can’t eat parallelograms”!
August 5th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Love it! Phenomenal reasoning!
August 6th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Oh my gosh, that is *priceless*!
And sounds oh so familiar. Good luck with the new foods!
August 7th, 2009 at 5:58 am
Um, I would eat it, I would eat almost anything though, love food, even that, whatever it is… the bread part sounded good!!
August 9th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
Should go without saying — why would anyone want to disturb a perfectly good parallelogram?
~Michelle