part of my life as a full-day kindergarten teacher is having lunch with the kids 3 days a week. it’s especially fun because the pre-kindergartneners also share our table, and while we might not get much time to eat, it never fails to be exciting and i am endlessly fascinated by their take on the food.
here are some chickeny stripnuggetstick things
here are some fishy stripnuggetstick things
they are never quite sure what to ask for, or what we’re having, when wanting more.
every year, someone declares themselves to suddenly be a ‘bege-tarian’,
because they like animals.
and they stop eating any meat,
but somehow they don’t identify our nuggetstickstrip items as meat,
and i understand completely.
and i loved the day when one of them asked for syrup to go on their foodstripnuggety item.
why do you want syrup, i asked?
aren’t these french toast strips?, they answered.
i’m not really sure, but let’s go with that.
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Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain
I didn't have my glasses on.... 
Haha it does look like a French toast strip. I probably would have asked the same!
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made sense to me, mark )
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Erm so what is the last picture..she asks through bleary eyes (it’s Friday I get to read!) x
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we may never know for sure, jen )
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The little ones are so endearing. Love the pictures and the conversation. Too funny.
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they are paul, you are so right. and thanks )
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French toast sticks for me!
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yep, probably the good way to go on this one, dk )
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I LOVE this story! Too too cute 🙂
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thanks amb. and we need a bit of liz’s food expertise on this one )
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Adorable! I love “kindergarten-speak.” #nofilter 🙂
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exactly, and me too, no filter is right! )
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I wonder if some school dietician somewhere declared: Put it in a nuggetystripthingie and the young ‘uns will eat it! It is a fascinating study, Beth, and you are just the woman for the job of eating these new creations alongside them and focusing more on the kinders than your tummy.
In the college cafeteria, by the way, we used to call certain dinners universal meat with universal gravy, be it beef, turkey, pork … Also known to be uttered: Mystery meat again!
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i totally get that mark, and i usually make up names for most of the odd food items, like ‘big beef’ for anything brown with gravy, similar to your college experience, makes it more exciting and it tastes better )
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Big beef! That fits so many school meals, Beth. You are a good coiner of dining enhancers!
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Whatever is is, it tastes good – that’s what’s important, right?
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yep, exactly right cbc )
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Hilarious! It’s good to be bege-tarian and eat frenchtoastnuggeties 🙂
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right on, tiny! those beggies are a happy lot )
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Haha… I taught for 5 years and some of the most interesting conversations took place in the cafeteria! Maybe the syrup makes the chicken-fishstick-nuggets taste better…
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absolutely, hh, the syrup is the secret to good eating )
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Brilliant. One of my gang didn’t want her dinner one day and informed me she was not a vega tarian until I told her that meant she had to eat veg!
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hahahahaha )
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That should read “she was a vegatarian!”.
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no worries, i understood you )
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It’s looking yummy around here this evening Beth,
and now I am hungry again, hey pass me some of
those, and a bun for afters 🙂 Mmmm
Andro xxxx
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i know, these are really tasty looking, andro )
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I am ready for some more
of your tasty postings Beth 🙂
Andro xxxx
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then you will enjoy the donut/ice cream shop one, andro )
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Lead me to it I could just eat
some of that right now 🙂 Mmmm lovely…
Andro xxxx
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Maple syrup is really good on bacon, so I can imagine it improving these nuggetystripthings.
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that’s a good logic andra, and it certainly couldn’t hurt )
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Maple syrup will upgrade any dish, Andra. Beth, my girls refer to school food as prison food. I wonder if prisoners call their food cafeteria food.
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yep, i’ll bet you’re right, eli )
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those first few pics looked kind of appetizing, though.
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well, there you go, eli. depends on your hunger level at the time )
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Sometime back, we had a children’s art competition here (for 6-10 year olds) and they were asked to draw a chicken. One kid drew fried chicken in a KFC box ……cause that’s where chickens come from!
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omg, i love that so much )
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Haha! MT has the best quotes. (The professor still isn’t sure if he’s a vegetable, animal, or mineral.)
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yes, he is indeed, always good for a quote )
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All of those food items, I have eaten and enjoyed. I almost always dipped the fish and chicken strips, as a child, in ketchup. A vegetable, according to one famous politician! I love maple syrup on bacon and French toast strips, so sure add it to those things, too! You are a great and marvelous leader, among teachers, Beth! You are so wonderful!
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dipping things,in ketchup, ranch, syrup – whatever your condiment of choice, always kicks the meal up a notch ) and thank you so much for your kind words, robin )
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Now I wonder if some mildly confused kid has gone on to try being a beige-eterian and only eat foods that are kind of beige in color. I could see it as an excuse to eat nothing but chicken fingers; there was a time in college when I probably would have eaten nothing but chicken fingers, given the chance.
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hahahahahha, that is great and i understand )
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