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First Graders Don't Know Tomatoes...

by TLTheLiberator
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I can understanding them not knowing about veggies like eggplant etc.

But tomatoes????

  • Profile picture of the author customsignsbanner
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    ohhhh emmmm geeee!!!! you have got to be kidding me
    "ohh tomato ketchup? i know what that is!!" niice but you dont know what the big red thing is.. hmmm bet he can i dnetify an m&m from a skittle in a heart beat
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      The one kid was close with the cauliflower:rolleyes:
      He called it broccoli which is Brassica oleracea italica
      While cauliflower isBrassica oleracea botrytis
      Both of which are off shoots of wild cabbage which is Brassica oleracea. Cultivated cabbage is Brassica oleracea var. capitata.
      Also I bet he would of had different results if the school he went to was in the country.
      Still it's sad when kids don't know what fresh veggies and fruits look like.
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  • Profile picture of the author jacktackett
    each spring and fall I take my boys to the garden center and we pick out some seeds - vegetables and other items. We come home and I have them plant them in some raised beds in our yard. It is totally against the yard Nazi's rules for our subdivision (I can plant flowers but NOT vegetables!!!!). I am willing to take their wrath (letters, fines, and of course having them call me names - ouch!) BUT its worth it to teach my kids that food does NOT come from a grocery store or a restaurant. Someone, somewhere has to grow it.

    Now I've not taken this to the point of tagging one of the deers that walk through our natural area between our sub division and the sub division next to us and then dressing the deer in the back yard. For that I'm willing to the grocery store and try to explain where meat comes from without a lot of graphic details ;-)

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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by jacktackett View Post

      Now I've not taken this to the point of tagging one of the deers that walk through our natural area between our sub division and the sub division next to us and then dressing the deer in the back yard. For that I'm willing to the grocery store and try to explain where meat comes from without a lot of graphic details ;-)

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      You can always go fishing, gut and clean the fish, cook it, serve it to them and show them how deer and cattle are prepared in a similar way.

      Steve
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      • Profile picture of the author jacktackett
        Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

        You can always go fishing, gut and clean the fish, cook it, serve it to them and show them how deer and cattle are prepared in a similar way.

        Steve
        Steve,
        had my dad - their papaw - do this a while back. Personally - I hate fishing and fish. I do take my kids fishing on the Inter coastal waterway each summer when we go to the beach, but I'm not a fish person. Which is a pain since my wife and her whole family love sea food.
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  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    BTW a lot of hamburgers have a ring of tomato. Didn't they wonder what THAT was?
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    • Profile picture of the author Andie
      Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

      BTW a lot of hamburgers have a ring of tomato. Didn't they wonder what THAT was?
      Steve,
      Not gonna find any lettuce/tomato on a happy meal burger...

      (my son has only recently started eating the occasional burger...the kid never liked meat - if we ever got a fastfood burger, he wanted the bun with the slice of cheese and nothing else) :confused:

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      • Profile picture of the author seasoned
        Originally Posted by Andie View Post

        Steve,
        Not gonna find any lettuce/tomato on a happy meal burger...

        (my son has only recently started eating the occasional burger...the kid never liked meat - if we ever got a fastfood burger, he wanted the bun with the slice of cheese and nothing else) :confused:

        Andie
        WOW! I used to have burgers ALL THE TIME!

        I don't even know if they had happy meals when I was a kid.

        Steve
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        • Profile picture of the author ThomM
          Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

          WOW! I used to have burgers ALL THE TIME!

          I don't even know if they had happy meals when I was a kid.

          Steve
          Steve when we where kids, we where just happy to get a meal
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          • Profile picture of the author seasoned
            Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

            Steve when we where kids, we where just happy to get a meal
            I got meals....
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            • Profile picture of the author ThomM
              Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

              I got meals....
              and where you happy?
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              • Profile picture of the author seasoned
                Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

                and where you happy?
                Not here/now
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                • Profile picture of the author ThomM
                  Originally Posted by seasoned View Post

                  Not here/now
                  Sorry to hear that Steve.
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    Yeah, I would venture to say there was nothing named "Happy Meal" when we were kids. I had 6 brothers and sisters so like Thom, I was happy to get any meal.
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