Food Peeve?

**RICHARD** · 11-28-2010, 05:00 PM

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** · 11-28-2010, 06:01 PM

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** · 11-28-2010, 08:21 PM

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** · 11-28-2010, 09:07 PM

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** · 11-28-2010, 11:14 PM

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** · 11-29-2010, 07:50 AM

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!!!

**DJFyrewolf36** · 11-30-2010, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

You would have loved me as a little kid...If I got a HUGE bowl of ice cream at a buffet you better believe I ate ALL OF IT! Soft serve topped with way too many chocolate chips still makes me smile.

And now I want soft serve...dang it!

**Karen** · 11-29-2010, 03:04 PM

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.

**RICHARD** · 11-29-2010, 03:17 PM

Originally Posted by Karen

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..

When you have to send peas
To the kids overseas?
That's logistics!

When they don't go on time,
They may go to the swine-
That's LOGISTICS!

**lizbud** · 11-29-2010, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

When you have to send peas
To the kids overseas?
That's logistics!

When they don't go on time,
They may go to the swine-
That's LOGISTICS!

I like that commercial. The first couple of times I hear it I thought
they were saying "that's Poughkeepsie"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poughkeepsie,_New_York

**rosethecopycat** · 11-30-2010, 06:39 PM

The commercial that aggravates me is in supermarket.
A young boy (old enough to know better) charges around the supermarket and opens the dispenser of coffee beans. His mother finds the 'scamp' standing in a mound of coffee beans on the floor. She rushes toward him and 'brushes' him off in an 'are you o.k.? manner, gives him a pat on the head, and they walk away.

If the little 'scamp' were me- I would have gotten smacked. (sorry that was the reality in the 60's- not that I condone that nowadays)

If I were the mother- I would have 'marched' the boy to the manager, told him to apologize, ask the manager for a broom, so the 'scamp' could clean the mess, and then ask the manager to weigh the product so the little 'urchin' could pay for it!