# Little kid freaked out on me **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 13, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080 "2017-03-13T11:02:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2017, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/41 "2017-03-13T23:54:43Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > i realize youre just joking, but i always feel compelled to point out that eggs **arent** unborn chickens (or anything else)! theyre the nutritional material the developing embryo consumes. . . its food! the blastodisc (or unfertilized ovum) is the size of a pin point and accounts for almost 0% of the material of the chicken egg. Tell that to my late aunt who, back in the 50s, was preparing some farm-fresh eggs… when into the frying pan plopped a fully-formed chick. She totally freaked out, and went running out of the house and down the street, wearing nothing but a revealing negligee. > [@InsomniaMama](#): > > I grow asparagus in my suburban garden. It comes back every year. You definitely do not eat the roots. Otherwise it wouldn’t come back. I have an asparagus patch in my back yard. One year I got an official notice from a city inspector, citing me for “tall, noxious weeds” on my property. Instead of removing them and paying the fine, I had to educate the city inspectors on the nature of the asparagus plant. And **Nava** : In the spring, asparagus “spears” come out of the ground, and can be cut down and eaten. If left alone, they grow into magnificent “ferns”, a few feet high. The male ferns contain red berries, which are eaten by birds, whose poop spreads asparagus seeds. The original roots remain underground, and sprout again next spring. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/42 "2017-03-14T00:06:53Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > I was singing “She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain”, doing all the extra verses. Then I reached the one about, “And we’ll kill the old red rooster when she comes…”. I’ve seen the verse in a recent songbook as, “And we’ll all have cake and ice cream when she comes!” I once substitute taught in a third grade classroom, and the students were horrified when they read a story about a boy who had helped an injured eagle which eventually recovered and promptly killed a rabbit. The kids were horrified, and several said that all eagles should be killed to protect rabbits. :eek: Fortunately they were distracted when I mentioned my father (who’s a birdwatcher). “You (an adult) have a father?” Turns out none of the kids knew their grandparents were their parents’ parents, and were eager to prove me wrong by asking these “friends of mommy and daddy” if they were really relatives. (Sadly, I wasn’t there the next day.) In another classroom, I taught photosynthesis to fourth graders. One boy said, “You mean, when we eat plants, it’s like we’re eating sunshine? Ewww!” A number of kids agreed with him. (I didn’t mention meat.) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/43 "2017-03-14T00:13:15Z")
once read a book in which the author, a veterianrian, described how, as a child, he became a vegetarian. Okay, this guy was an adult before WWII started, so I’m assuming he was born in the early 1900’s. His father(the family was well off) was a hardnosed authority figure. When the boy balked at eating an oyster(they look icky!) his father forced him to swallow it. Then, when they were eating chicken he remembered throwing them grain, became upset, and his father forced him to eat the chicken, reminding him that later on they’d have one of those cute little lambs for dinner That did it. He said he never ate meat after that. He said it wasn’t anything high minded, but between his dad and the memories, he didn’t like it. Guy said he didn’t mind what other people ate, and he disapproved of a vegetarian client who also made her DOG be vegetarian. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/44 "2017-03-14T00:17:30Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I don’t even know what goat cholesterol is! But then, I don’t actually know what cholesterol is so… It is a yellow glop that comes in a jar at Walgreens: [https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/queen-helene-cholesterol-hair-conditioning-cream/ID=prod8899-product?ext=gooPLA\_-\_Beauty&pla&adtype=pla&kpid=sku308899&sst=16a3b450-6262-4dd8-ad3a-c475c556d72c](https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/queen-helene-cholesterol-hair-conditioning-cream/ID=prod8899-product?ext=gooPLA_-_Beauty&pla&adtype=pla&kpid=sku308899&sst=16a3b450-6262-4dd8-ad3a-c475c556d72c) Dennis ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/45 "2017-03-14T00:52:04Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > I ran into something similar once with my little girl, at bedtime, when she was about 3 or 4. > > I was singing “She’ll Be Comin’ Around the Mountain”, doing all the extra verses. Then I reached the one about, “And we’ll kill the old red rooster when she comes…”. > > The little Torqueling sat up. “Why do they kill the rooster?” > > I said, “Well, that’s the next part. ‘And we’ll all have chicken and dumplings when she comes…’” > > “But the rooster’s not chicken like you eat.” > > “Yeah, he’s kind of a chicken.” > > “Well, he’s a chicken. But not chicken like you eat.” > > “Um…” Didn’t really know where to go from there. I basically left it alone and went through the song, and things worked themselves out eventually. > > I guess that makes me a chicken. But not chicken like you eat. OMG ! This so funny ! LOL! You have a very smart child ! ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/46 "2017-03-14T02:15:04Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > I don’t mean to be harsh, but I can’t believe you’re feeling sorry for _yourself_. Poor little kid. He has emotional issues and doesn’t have a grandparent who can come to grandparents’ day, and he gets stuck with a guy who can’t handle the “embarrassment” when he has a meltdown. Which, being an elementary school, probably isn’t that unusual. I’m not feeling sorry for myself. I now regret not fucking with the kids head. I was actually hoping some of you would find humor in my predicament. My daughter-in-law laughed hysterically at this story. At first she thought she knew which kid it was but turned out she was thinking of another (there are plenty of screwed up kids to go around). What made this so tough was it all happened in a very, very short period of time, and prior to it he was a really good, seemingly adjusted child. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/47 "2017-03-14T02:23:25Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Well, I won’t have one. If I see an adult drinking one I will probably, you know, look away. I won’t eat ice cream. (Not even when I was a kid.) I won’t eat whipped cream. I will eat sour cream on something, like a taco or baked potato. I’ll eat yogurt, I’ll eat cheese. Not much, but cheese is…well, better when I don’t think about it, actually. Why? You don’t like the taste? It makes you squeamish? That is, not a moral, rational, or health reason, just an “ew” reason like the girls who wouldn’t eat a fish-shaped fish? ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/48 "2017-03-14T02:26:17Z")
> [@pkbites](#): > > I’m not feeling sorry for myself. I now regret not fucking with the kids head. > I was actually hoping some of you would find humor in my predicament. My daughter-in-law laughed hysterically at this story. At first she thought she knew which kid it was but turned out she was thinking of another (there are plenty of screwed up kids to go around). > > What made this so tough was it all happened in a very, very short period of time, and prior to it he was a really good, seemingly adjusted child. My sympathies are entirely with Liam. What a horrible way to have such a shocking fact of life thrust upon you, with an adult with so little empathy he can only think about himself. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/49 "2017-03-14T02:40:15Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > My sympathies are entirely with Liam. Where is your sympathy for the animal that was ground up to make the bologna he was happily scarfing down? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/50 "2017-03-14T02:43:34Z")
It’s complicated. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/51 "2017-03-14T03:42:29Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > My sympathies are entirely with Liam. What a horrible way to have such a shocking fact of life thrust upon you, with an adult with so little empathy he can only think about himself. Lighten up, it’s not like he was the one telling the kid he was eating tasty tasty dead animals. It is perfectly natural to see someone freak out and be going ‘ok, wtf just happened?’ ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/52 "2017-03-14T04:03:11Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > I don’t even know what goat cholesterol is! But then, I don’t actually know what cholesterol is so… Cholesterol is a sterol lipid (a waxy substance whose molecule is made up of for linked rings). It makes up a large part of the cell membrane. Cholesterol is carried around the body in what’s called a lipoprotein, which the body uses to transport fats in the blood stream. High amounts of one lipoprotein, called LDL, in the bloodstream, has been linked to atherosclerosis, which is a disease where arteries in the body narrow and lose flexibility, and that’s linked to heart and circulation problems. There’s some evidence (although the evidence isn’t as clear as it used to be), that eating a lot of saturated fats can increase the amount of LDL in your body. That’s one of the reasons that doctors say you should avoid diets high in saturated fats, especially if you have high cholesterol or a history of heart problems. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/53 "2017-03-14T05:51:22Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > It is a yellow glop that comes in a jar at Walgreens: > > [https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/queen-helene-cholesterol-hair-conditioning-cream/ID=prod8899-product?ext=gooPLA\_-\_Beauty&pla&adtype=pla&kpid=sku308899&sst=16a3b450-6262-4dd8-ad3a-c475c556d72c](https://www.walgreens.com/store/c/queen-helene-cholesterol-hair-conditioning-cream/ID=prod8899-product?ext=gooPLA_-_Beauty&pla&adtype=pla&kpid=sku308899&sst=16a3b450-6262-4dd8-ad3a-c475c556d72c) > > Dennis That stuff is actually kind of awesome. On hair, I mean. But I don’t think that’s the stuff that makes you have heart attacks. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/54 "2017-03-14T08:32:39Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And **Nava** : In the spring, asparagus “spears” come out of the ground, and can be cut down and eaten. If left alone, they grow into magnificent “ferns”, a few feet high. The male ferns contain red berries, which are eaten by birds, whose poop spreads asparagus seeds. The original roots remain underground, and sprout again next spring. It’s not a matter of me not knowing the biology, guys. It’s a language problem, a concept mismatch. One of the definitions for _raíz_ is “underground part supporting those parts which are visible”: no reference to actual biological functionality; so long as it’s underground, a part of a plant is a _raíz_. English bamboo shoots are Spanish _tallos de bambú_, but English grass shoots are _briznas de hierba_; to have _tallos_, _hierba_ has to be that specific one also known as _María_, which isn’t a herbal. Spanish trees don’t have _tallos_: their leaves and flowers do - but in English, those are called stems. An asparagus fern is an _esparraguera_ or a _mata de espárragos_, but _mata_ is usually translated as bush, not fern. Different concepts. ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/55 "2017-03-14T09:22:35Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > \*Note that my own feelings may color this. This is just exactly how I feel. Milk is for babies, and little kids. Got milk? Then you’d better be four or younger. It really actually kinda grosses me out to see an adult drink milk. > [@gigi](#): > > Where do you draw the line? What about a milkshake that has milk in it? > [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Well, I won’t have one. If I see an adult drinking one I will probably, you know, look away. I won’t eat ice cream. (Not even when I was a kid.) I won’t eat whipped cream. I will eat sour cream on something, like a taco or baked potato. I’ll eat yogurt, I’ll eat cheese. Not much, but cheese is…well, better when I don’t think about it, actually. **H N.S** : I think you’d get on well with a friend of mine. He feels very much the way you do about milk, and milk products – except that he’s cool with cheese, if it’s proper solid cheese from the “Anglosphere” – he abhors “gooey” foreign cheeses. Otherwise, for him, milk is for infants of the appropriate respective species – he recoils from it. He’s always felt this way, since early childhood. Nowadays he is zealously concerned for animal rights and welfare (if he lived in the States, he’d belong to PETA for sure), and his milk-hatred chimes in with this; but as said, he has from the outset, loathed ingesting the stuff in its own right. (I don’t mean to come across as scornful of you, or my friend – all people have every right to their aversions in this line. People’s food-and-drink hatings and likings, are just interesting.) ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/56 "2017-03-14T14:03:33Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > once read a book in which the author, a veterianrian, described how, as a child, he became a vegetarian. > > Okay, this guy was an adult before WWII started, so I’m assuming he was born in the early 1900’s. His father(the family was well off) was a hardnosed authority figure. When the boy balked at eating an oyster(they look icky!) his father forced him to swallow it. Then, when they were eating chicken he remembered throwing them grain, became upset, and his father forced him to eat the chicken, reminding him that later on they’d have one of those cute little lambs for dinner > > That did it. He said he never ate meat after that. He said it wasn’t anything high minded, but between his dad and the memories, he didn’t like it. Guy said he didn’t mind what other people ate, and he disapproved of a vegetarian client who also made her DOG be vegetarian. Parents can be awful like that. My father apparently had a lamb when he was young, treated it like a pet, not realizing that one day his parents would kill it for dinner and expect him to eat it. At age 79, he still won’t touch lamb. He has no problem with other meats, though, up to and including chickens, turkeys, rabbits, and goats, which we raised, butchered, and cooked ourselves. Oh, and one emu. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/57 "2017-03-14T15:47:17Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Just yesterday, I was making pancakes and bacon for the Cub for breakfast. He loves his bacon. > > Cub: “Bacon come from pigs, right?” > > Me: “That’s right.” > > Cub: “Seems unfair for the pig that we kill him for bacon.” > > Me: “Oh?” [not sure where this is going] > > Cub: “Fair for us, though!” If you’d been making bacon with eggs in some form, you could have told him, “The chicken is involved. The pig is committed.” ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/58 "2017-03-14T15:50:34Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I suspect that most modern, suburban kids don’t know where ANY of their food comes from-- bread, tortillas, cereal, vegetables… let alone the shock of finding out that we kill animals for food. How WOULD they find this out when all of their food comes out of cans, bottle, boxes, and bags?? Probably a lot of their parents don’t, either. > [@](#): > > Peaches come from a can, > They were put there by a man > In a factory downtown > If I had my little way, > I’d eat peaches every day > Sun-soakin’ bulges in the shade > > Movin’ to the country, > Gonna eat a lot of peaches > … ---
**Author:** ![KatTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9dc877/32.png) [@KatTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KatTP)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/59 "2017-03-14T18:15:25Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > \*Note that my own feelings may color this. This is just exactly how I feel. Milk is for babies, and little kids. Got milk? Then you’d better be four or younger. It really actually kinda grosses me out to see an adult drink milk. Right?? I can’t stand watching adults drink milk! However, I put it in my coffee and I LOVE cheese. It makes no sense. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080/60 "2017-03-14T18:55:47Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > My sympathies are entirely with Liam. What a horrible way to have such a shocking fact of life thrust upon you, with an adult with so little empathy he can only think about himself. And who regrets “ **not** fucking with the kids(sic) head”. This is a little kid! Plus, he has some kind of emotional problems. I can understand being startled by the situation, but being mean to him or making fun of him, even here, is bullshit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-kid-freaked-out-on-me/782080.md?page=4)