Ah, to be young and French

[lillibet]

One of our friends spent the summer working at the MIT day camp, where many of the kids are offspring of foreign scholars. One of her five year old charges was a very sweet French boy.

One day she asked the kids what their favorite foods were. The American kids quickly shouted out "hot dogs!" "french fries!" and "potato chips!" After a moment of contemplation, the French boy said "A nice piece of sole with a light caper sauce."

Comments

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

That is priceless! I just asked DD1 what her favorite food is and she said "chicken." When I asked "just plain chicken", she responded "and chicken skin":) This is also the kid who saw a truck with french fries on the side and thought they were parsnips:)

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Priceless.

That reminds me of a scene in Truffaut's L'argent de poche, when two brothers let their parents sleep in and make themselves breakfast.

Nice to hear some things haven't changed.

[heliopsis.livejournal.com]

Beautiful!

[spwebdesign.livejournal.com]

Just goes to show the American kids have better taste!

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Hee!

I think if I'd been asked that question when I was five, I would have answered either "scallops" or "three bean salad".

[klingonlandlady.livejournal.com]

Yay! when i was 5 i would have answered "escargots with garlic butter, and wienerschnitzel"- but we lived in Germany then :)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

*laugh* That's excellent.

When I was five? Probably a toss-up between PB&J and beef and broccoli, Chinese-style.

[pekmez.livejournal.com]

amusing, but on the other hand, makes me feel cranky and defensive that my almost 2 year old likes fat and salt in the form of hot dogs and french fries and pizza, and has glommed onto them as favorite foods, while she only ate two bites of her homemade plum dumpling this morning. (the same kind ate 2 of in a sitting when she was 9 months old.)

nurture is not the only thing that dictates how a kid is going to eat. maybe by 5 her eating habits will be back in line with ours, but if they're not, I dearly hope it's not *all* because we're on american soil and haven't made pizza and french fries a forbidden evil.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Aw! Tres adorable!

I think atage 5 I would have said that my favourite food was watermelon. And very little has changed. ;-D

[whitebird.livejournal.com]

I would have said hot dogs. Of course, I took a hot dog to lunch in a thermos every day for lunch for, well, way too many years, really.

[muffyjo]

That's wonderful.