To Cook Or Not To Cook?
1st September 2011
The fashionable-food meme comes up against reality in the Wall Street Journal.
Unfortunately, my homemade-lunches plan hasn’t been going too well. Just before the last school session ended, my son declared the spinach-rice concoction — a recipe I conjured to get some greens into him — “the healthiest lunch anyone in Millburn township eats,” so now, he simply won’t touch it. Ouch!
Inconvenient truth: The reason everybody wants to move to the U.S. is so that they don’t have to eat all that disgusting foreign food any more. Political correctness stops where a child’s stomach begins; kids are natural libertarians.
Thankfully, aside from the spinach-rice protests, my daughter still seems happy with the chopped fruit, carrots, yogurt, cheese, mixed vegetable rice and sandwiches I’ve been sending with her to daycare.
Well, that may be ‘home-cooked food’ back where Anusha Shrivastava came from, but not in America. Try Campbell’s soup or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and you’re problems are solved.
September 2nd, 2011 at 04:52
“…kids are natural libertarians.” Too true. Hence the frequent admonitions of parents to play fair and be nice.
But one hopes that with maturity they will like Paul “put aside childish things”–including libertarianism.