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Halloween candy
In article .com, Dawn says...
Banty wrote: In article , dragonlady says... Heck, when I was a kid I can remember a couple of family gatherings where the grownups got steak off the grill -- and the kids got hot dogs. I don't mind eating hot dogs, but not while others are eating steak! My parents would never do that -- they might offer us a choice -- but these were events where someone else was providing the food, and we had better manners than to challenge the situation. Are you sure it wasn't simply because the kids by and large preferred the hot dogs? I've done it when kids were very little (probably under 6) because the kids tend to waste a very good piece of expensive meat. Kids don't eat much in those types of situations IME. So you give them even a portion of a good steak (which most kids don't like anyway) and it goes to waste. Better to waste a cheap hot dog. My parents did something like this. I think a big part of the reason also is that little kids tend to run around more, and not be so neat, so hot dogs is a 'friendlier' meal. Besides, who'd be on cut-up-the-steak-into-little-pieces duty? And there is cost. Just to look fair, everyone is to have a round steak when the adults could have enjoyed a sirloin strip steak or better? I don't think it's something that should be done with an older kid who would genuinely prefer steak. I certainly wouldn't, say, offer lobster to the adults but expect my 13 yo son to eat fish sticks (he doesn't eat meat). Sure. That's the age also, in my memory, there'd be this tension between my wanting to sit with the adults and them wanting me to attend to the little kids in the kiddie table. There is also - is this a family where, if *one* kid got the steak, and there really wasn't enough for a lot of kids to have steak, it wouldn't be a sore point? If they're in general big on sharing all around, it'd be a sore point. I wonder - do folks feel bad about non-food priveldges? For example, is it unfair for the adults to get a master suit to sleep and bathe in? Banty |
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