Fri 10 Feb, 2017 06:01 am
My wife cooks for a day school, so designated after being a day care for years. She is discovering some interesting facts about the kids' diets. They don't always recognize traditional fare. Most recently, she had a surplus of eggs. She boiled and peeled them and gave them to the kids at snack time. They didn't know what they were. One even tried to bounce his. She gave me other examples that I can't bring to mind just now. All I can derive from this information is, they must have parents who feed processed foods, mostly. I could kind of anticipate this in some parts of the country, but in Tomball? I wonder how widespread is the phenomenon?
Tradition is meaningless, to me at least. I don't have any traditions myself. That being said, I know what a hard boiled egg is. Then again, some parents don't feed their kids hard boiled eggs, who gives a donkey's left nostril what they feed their kids. It's not a phenomenon, you're just old and judgemental.
Maybe their parents don't like hard boiled eggs. I might eat one if I were starving, but maybe not until the third day of starving. On the other hand, I do like scrambled eggs, probably having them when I was a little kid. Well beaten scrambled eggs, that is. I don't remember my parents ever making hard boiled eggs, so maybe they didn't like them either. I only ran into them at a friend's house when I was nine.
If you remember the other things, post them..
@ossobucotemp,
I could understand some of the kids. But a whole school of them?
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote: I could kind of anticipate this in some parts of the country, but in Tomball?
this struck my eye
did you think Tomball was different from the rest of North America for some reason? that being said, I see people eating hard-boiled eggs on the subway fairly regularly, so most public transit users (in Toronto at least) would recognize a hard-boiled egg as food.
@edgarblythe,
A whole school class of them not recognizing them would surprise me now.
Re spelling of judgmental, I've spelled it wrong on purpose for decades. I seem to remember that not every magazine or newspaper spells it without the
e, and seeing a defense of using the
e somewhere.
@ehBeth,
ehBeth wrote:
edgarblythe wrote: I could kind of anticipate this in some parts of the country, but in Tomball?
this struck my eye
did you think Tomball was different from the rest of North America for some reason? that being said, I see people eating hard-boiled eggs on the subway fairly regularly, so most public transit users (in Toronto at least) would recognize a hard-boiled egg as food.
I see us as being pretty much country, even though we are being swallowed up by Houston. I still see chickens running around in quite a few yards.
@ossobucotemp,
ossobucotemp wrote:
A whole school class of them not recognizing them would surprise me now.
Re spelling of judgmental, I've spelled it wrong on purpose for decades. I seem to remember that not every magazine or newspaper spells it without the e, and seeing a defense of using the e
somewhere.
I see major organizations, such as CBS TV news, spelling words wrong these days. I have never been a spelling Nazi, but it seems to be getting out of hand.
@edgarblythe,
Urban chickens are on-trend.
@edgarblythe,
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/judgemental
One of the sites I checked said that judgemental was used in the UK about as often as judgmental was - sorry, no link now.
@ehBeth,
All the more reasons kids should know about eggs.
@ossobucotemp,
I don't care about UK spelling, except for occasions calling for UK spelling.
@edgarblythe,
My point is that using the e is not considered wrong as such, but as alternative, even in the US.
@edgarblythe,
The thing is I think urban kids do. I expect semi-rural kids to be more about convenience foods and not about health foods. That's my bias showing.
@ossobucotemp,
I disagree. But I don't want to spend the day arguing the point.
Hard boiled eggs are good anyway, I see no reason anyone shouldn't eat them. What I like to do is cut them in half and remove the yolks, then fill the whites with salt and replace the yolks and eat them. So good. I like salt.
@Skeleton ,
Cool Hand Luke ate fifty of them.
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