mouths of babes

[chelidon]

My son, who is six, absolutely loves seafood of all kinds. I've seen him devour an entire order of PEI mussels and an entire 1 1/2 lb lobster in one sitting. He especially loves lobster, both the actual taste, and the fun value in playing with one as he eats it. Shoot, it's the original happy meal, dinner *and* a toy.

Still, while he's played with live lobster, and eaten dead ones, he'd never had to go through the process of transforming the one into the other, and that can be pretty traumatic for a kid. Some folks won't ever eat lobster again after having had to boil one.

But one day a couple of weeks ago while I was out of town, my son was with my dad, and at the market he asked for live lobster, so live lobster it was. He's sitting in the kitchen, playing with the lobster while my dad heats the water. What's he going to do when it's time to boil the lobster? The water gets to proper temperature, my dad says so, and my son stops what he's doing, looks down and says (I am not making this up), "Hello, Mr. Lobster! It's time for you to die now so I can eat you."

Frickin' unsentimental Virgos, I swear :> That's my boy...

Comments

[idragosani.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! Forrest rocks!

We are trying to broaden Ian's cuisine also. He had swordfish steak recently at a Sakura steakhouse and absolutely loved it. He also had some sauteed shrimp which he devoured with enthusiasm.

[chelidon.livejournal.com]

All well and good, as long as you're resigned to raising a child with expensive tastes ;> Seriously, though, seafood is good, healthy stuff to eat in general!

[idragosani.livejournal.com]

Pediatricians are encouraging parents to introduce exotic foods to their kids at an earlier age... the bland and boring diets are on the way out... Ian also likes chili and kung pao chicken :-)