To think KFC is fine for an 11 year old?

My LO is 2.5, whilst not my ideal if someone is providing emergency free childcare you suck it up. I’d just be glad you looked after her and fed her. Isn’t Bella Italia fast food? It’s hardly home cooking? I’d swerve this “friend”

Love this thread. 3 Mumsnet tropes. Children who never eat anything that's not home made, organic,UHP free. All "fast food" is poison. Oh, and the tiniest favour is equivalent to donating a kidney.

There's a lot of things I don't agree with on MN but dissing cheese is definitely a step too far.

Bella Italia and Pizza Express are only a marginal step up from KFC and McDonalds. It’s mostly marketing pitching towards a more middle class crowd. Seems like it works.

She was exceptionally rude when someone was doing her a massive favour and I would have made sure she knew that.

Probably with a "really!?!? its a bloody KFC, not Vodka and Redbull - remind me to never do YOU a favour in the future" 🤔

You should not have said Bella Italia - you should have said 'I am doing you a favour, I have no idea where I shall be taking them, but I shall take your information about allergies seriously, other than that, be grateful I am doing you a favour'.

I bet the one at the bottom of town that has closed down now didn't. used to stink of rancid cooking oil when you walked past. but that's not all of them, that's specifically that one. I can't believe how many people would go in when it smelt so bad.
I've not had KFC for many many years now, but I used to like it as a child. the seasoning was tasty.

I've been called neglectful on here in the past because I've always fed DC little bits of everything from weaning, even....KFC. 😂

My child was brought up on chips and turkey dinosaurs and was the healthiest kid in the class. Bottle fed too. Now a very healthy and successful adult.

Bella Italia isn't exactly fine dining!

Friend was a CF. She shouldn't have said anything. Plus, it's a bloody KFC! Who cares? Even if the child is on a strict diet, one meal isn't going to do much harm. She's 11, not a baby having first tastes and not being allowed sugary treats.

People now seem to think that it is ok as a guest to dictate exactly what other people can serve, beyond the most fundamental restrictions like allergies etc.

I knew by the time I was six that if people offered me food in their home or on an outing, I ate what the gave me, and pretended to like it. Even tomato soup from a can which I despised.

It's no wonder really people don't want to take on hospitality any more, everyone is so entitled.

Things we like to look down on.

For fast food, not much faster than a salad.

I worked in KFC as a teen. It is genuinely just 100% chicken (it is actually delivered as whole, raw chicken quarters) white flour, and herbs and spices.

I can't comment on their fries, bread buns, chicken pop corn, etc., but the chicken itself is something you could easily make at home.

Sadly it’s not a surprise when we literally have posterw complaining night nurse has too many calories when on a diet of 600 calories a day. It could be worse, you could have fed them a mashed banana!

This thread is funny.

I wonder how many of these people who are outraged about "fast food" even know exactly why they're outraged beyond just general "it must be bad"? I mean, specifically, the reasons I eat KFC seldom and when I do, I make sure to really appreciate it are

• It's basically just a vat of oil and fried food that is bad for my arteries, and a carcinogenic to boot. Plus, you know, I'm overweight - I don't need that many calories, especially calories from fat and carbs.
• Lots of UPFs in the flavourings and ingredients (although admittedly, I don't know that for a fact - I'm just assuming).
• Chicken welfare

But because I know WHY I don't like to eat it often, I also know that doing so now and again as part of a usually healthy and balanced diet is not going to do me any harm.

But then, I once got told on here that I was risking my child's health because I admitted that I occassionally gave him salami in his lunchbox....

My thought too. I find it hard to believe people can be this cheeky after you've done them a favour. Actually no, I can believe it.

Absolutely fine. If someone was feeding my child, as long as they weren't giving a known allergen I would just be very thankful for whatever they got and would offer to reimburse you for the cost, I'd actually probably offer to cover the cost for all of you as a thanks for going out of your way to help me.

Premade frozen dough, pre made sauce in jars, premade dough balls, premade salad dressings, pre-portion frozen vegetables, frozen carbonara sauce in blocks. I think we may have a rather different view of made from scratch.

Nor would I.

It's full of bones and onion powder.

Also, I don't share well.

If she has a rule against her child eating fast food then it was on her to tell you if it mattered that much. Or her child to tell you (she was probably thrilled!). You did nothing wrong, you helped her out and plans change. In a couple of years this child will be out with her friends getting fast food.

Bloody cheek, I would not help her out again!

Oh come on, heroin =/= KFC

I also wouldn’t feed biryani to my dog, whether or not you feed something to a dog has no relation to a human eating it.

@MerryMaker

she shouldn’t have made the comment, end of! A simple ‘thank you’ to OP would have sufficed

She is a very CF 😳