Food Peeve?

[RICHARD]

I have a huge peeve about food and television.

I saw a commercial about a dad and his kid playing by sliding bowls of chips and salsa across a table..

Eventually the bowl collide and the salsa spills. The parents laugh and the mom goes to clean the mess up.

I also saw a preview on the BRAVO channel about the Top Chef program. The hostess says something about a 'food war' then throws food at the camera, the next scene is of the contestants tossing food at each other-a real food fight....everyone is laughing.

They just showed a commercial during a program with a child eating in a kitchen, he tosses his spoon across the glass table. The parents laugh and get out the towels to wipe up the mess.

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As I grew up I was always told that playing with food is a sin.

I understand that the stuff was probably 'stunt food', but the concept still irks me.


It's probably a trivial thing?

But it drives me crazy!

[mrspunkysmom]

I understand. So some kids see this on TV, the parents don't monitor and correct or advise, and then we wonder why they act the way they do.

[Catlady711]

It's not just a commercial thing, I've seen kids make similar messes in restaurants and the parents reaction is the same, they think it's funny or 'cute' but then again the poor waitress is the one that has to clean up the mess not them.

[K9karen]

ACK! I hate that chip/salsa commercial! What a waste of my favorite foods!

How 'bout the one where the kid shakes a soda bottle and it sprays all over the kitchen and the happy mom grabs her trusty paper towels and wipes him and the mess. AND then she squirts HIM with the sink hose and he does the soda thing again.

What a waste of orange soda!

[RICHARD]

Kids at buffets?

OML.

At some buffets the have the soft serve ice cream machines. That is an open invitation for a mess and kid's who have eyes bigger that their stomachs.

When I see kid kid with a giant bowl of ice cream? I cringe.

[pomtzu]

Hmmm - this brings back some funny memories of days long gone - when my ex wasn't my ex - and my now 41 yr old son was a young adult in his early 20's.

There had been a birthday party for one of them, complete with a nice cake with gooey creamy frosting. After most of it was consumed and a little bit of leftover was sitting on the kitchen counter, son took a handful and surprised his father with a good face shot - and his father then returned the favor. When all was said and done, they were wearing it in their hair, on their face, and just about everywhere! The kitchen cabinets, counters and floor did not escape the wrath either! I guess you know which 2 people cleaned it all up too! Boys will be boys!

Even now, all these years later, son will still occasionally get that little look in his eye at the dinner table, and a spoonful of mashed potatoes gets catapulted across the table in his wife's direction.

Maybe some folks view this as wasteful, maybe even crude behavior. Me??? - I view it as a family having a little lighthearted fun in a much too stressful world!

Would this ever happen outside of our own home??? Of course not - NEVER!!!

[Laura's Babies]

I have watched TV for years and have seen how they have taught people to be rude and sarcastic to people over the years. That started with Bart Simpson and one of the reasons why I never understood anyone watching it. TV use to teach people how to be kind and considerate as well as polite, now the more sarcastic and rude, the more people who watch it. It is taken as approved, acceptable behavior.

Before long, we will not be able to go out to eat without getting covered in someone else's food fight. We were ALWAYS taught you leave the table as you found it, YOU make a mess...YOU clean it up.

and everybody wonders what has happened to society..

[Taz_Zoee]

We just saw that salsa/chip commercial yesterday (I tend to not watch commercials) and Bruce made a comment on how the mom just smiles and goes to get the paper towels. We were like, yeah right! That wouldn't have been the case in our house when we were children.

I agree with Ellie that a little fun is good. I know my ex-boyfriend and his ex-wife got into whipped cream fights with each other. It was a very fond memory the kids had of their parents "back in the day".
I also believe if you make the mess you clean it up. So go ahead, have some fun. Just remember who is cleaning it up! And of course, this is not acceptable in public.....EVER.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

I hate the one with the two grown women throwing stuffing at each other.

Times were hard when we were kids. We were not allowed to waste food that way. With so many hungry people in the world it still seems very very wrong to me.

[lizbud]

Anything that smacked of wasteing food was forbidden when I was
a child. We would get the "all the starving kids in Africa" speech if we took
more than we could possibly eat. I feel stronger about the waste
now that I'm older & know the truth about people without food all over the
world.

[RICHARD]

We were ALWAYS taught you leave the table as you found it, YOU make a mess...YOU clean it up.

and everybody wonders what has happened to society..

LOL,

If I go out to eat I have the habit of wiping down the table before I leave.
I have had people get really irritated when I do.

[pomtzu]

I agree with Ellie that a little fun is good. I know my ex-boyfriend and his ex-wife got into whipped cream fights with each other. It was a very fond memory the kids had of their parents "back in the day".

Oh yeah Cindy - we've done the whipped cream in the aerosol cans too! Crude bunch here in Delaware - aren't we?????

[phesina]

Hmmm - this brings back some funny memories of days long gone - when my ex wasn't my ex - and my now 41 yr old son was a young adult in his early 20's.

There had been a birthday party for one of them, complete with a nice cake with gooey creamy frosting. After most of it was consumed and a little bit of leftover was sitting on the kitchen counter, son took a handful and surprised his father with a good face shot - and his father then returned the favor. When all was said and done, they were wearing it in their hair, on their face, and just about everywhere! The kitchen cabinets, counters and floor did not escape the wrath either! I guess you know which 2 people cleaned it all up too! Boys will be boys!

Even now, all these years later, son will still occasionally get that little look in his eye at the dinner table, and a spoonful of mashed potatoes gets catapulted across the table in his wife's direction.

Maybe some folks view this as wasteful, maybe even crude behavior. Me??? - I view it as a family having a little lighthearted fun in a much too stressful world!

Would this ever happen outside of our own home??? Of course not - NEVER!!!

Oh, I think that's hilarious! And I take it the throwers were also the cleaner-uppers?! What a great family story to look back on and laugh about.

[Karen]

I have never participated in a food fight, just too messy - even for me. It doesn't bother me seeing it on TV, though. My parents stressed "waste not, want not." Even as a kid I knew that my not eating the handful of peas on my plate would not, in any way be able to help or hurt a starving child in another country - by the time I got them packed and shipped and they got there, they'd have gone bad anyway. But my folks never used that argument with me, I just heard it from other kids.

Great Aunt Adrian, God bless her, was wont to say, "You might as well eat it, if you don't, it'll just go to the pigs, anyway ... " and she was serious.

[Taz_Zoee]

Oh yeah Cindy - we've done the whipped cream in the aerosol cans too! Crude bunch here in Delaware - aren't we?????

One of my best friends is in Delaware!! So yeah. LOL