You know you've feared as a parent when...

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You get a text from your 19yo saying "are potatoes supposed to be purple?"

I'd planned sausage and mash for dinner, DS1 said he'd prefer chips. I said if he was going to cook he could do what he liked and left him to get dinner while I went to do some errands.

How have I managed to raise a 19yo who can cook chips but doesn't know potatoes come in red and white varieties?

Feared ?! Failed

Oh OP it's OK.

My adult daughter was making a carrot cake one day and when the recipe said to grate the carrot, she for some reason used that side of the grater no one ever uses - the one that's just a long slit. She did half a carrot like this before I noticed and asked her wtf she was doing making massive slices of carrot

I sort of blame myself for never explaining the different effects you get with different sides of a grater. I honestly didn't think I needed to!

DS2 video called me from Uni to ask me what "this big flat grey thing" was. It was a sheet.

My 14yo dd thought there was a leaning tower of pizza...

I made it to uni without a clue how to use a tin opener .

My husband got to 46 before finding out they weren't 'Class A cherries'. Looking at you, MIL.

My husband was staggered to find that you could cook chips at home. I suspect his mother told him you couldn't so she didn't have to make chips for 3 teenage boys with hollow legs.

@Faynite

I made it to uni without a clue how to use a tin opener .

That might not have been your fault — there are two different types. I was used to the ones that cut out the lid, rather than cut through the sides of the can.

My Clever, top of all her classes 13 year old asked what frozen peas are made of.
I must have looked at her confused as she said 'are they gluten free? I genuinely do not know the ingredients'

I wouldn't mind but we grow peas in our garden.
She passed her 11+ for goodness sakes and has already achieved a level 7-9s in a practice GCSE paper.

Another! If butter is made out of milk and margarine is made of vegetable oil, what animal do they get that from?

Another on the milk subject. She asked how they get milk out of almonds. I flippantly said 'well they milk it from its teat' she then got up and started looking for a teat on the almond.

I do question whether teachers mark her work correctly! There are so many. She will say something most days when I just have to look at her in shock!

@Idroppedthescrewinthetuna

My Clever, top of all her classes 13 year old asked what frozen peas are made of. I must have looked at her confused as she said 'are they gluten free? I genuinely do not know the ingredients'

I wouldn't mind but we grow peas in our garden.
She passed her 11+ for goodness sakes and has already achieved a level 7-9s in a practice GCSE paper.

Another! If butter is made out of milk and margarine is made of vegetable oil, what animal do they get that from?

Another on the milk subject. She asked how they get milk out of almonds. I flippantly said 'well they milk it from its teat' she then got up and started looking for a teat on the almond.

I do question whether teachers mark her work correctly! There are so many. She will say something most days when I just have to look at her in shock!

I've asked the same thing re almond milk.

There are purple potatoes !!!

Well I took the thread title at face value, and was going to say that my DS asks my permission to go to the loo. I suspect he's just not great at switching off from school mode though.

I'm confused. There are purple potatoes!

DS1 called me the first week of uni to ask how to "use a clothes horse". I assumed he meant how to assemble it as it was given to him secondhand by a family friend so there were no instructions. Nope... he had managed to put it up, he just didn't know what to do with his wet clothes TBF we don't have one at home but you would have thought he could work it out...

Gerogyporky is right that the original wild potatoes were purple, inside and out. They came in a whole range of colours. Carrots were originally white and tomatoes yellow, hence pomodoro, golden apple.

I also was going to respond to the thread title to say when my ds fell down the full flight of stairs with the hoover, his first response was to apologise to me.

@user17425642134531

I'm confused. There are purple potatoes!

I think that's what OP means. So...

There are purple (red) potatoes.
Teen son has only just discovered this.
Teen son has texted OP because he thinks something wrong with potatoes (i.e. not supposed to be purple)

Google " purple potatoes".

They exist. They are not red.

Yes, purple potatoes exist. OP isn't saying otherwise! OP has (purple-ish) red potatoes. Son has found them. Son confused. Son believes potatoes only white. Son has texted OP seeking clarification. OP chagrined.

Working in a pub/cafe-type place years ago and we sent a youngish member of staff out for a few bits as our delivery was the next day, including 'white onions'. She came back and said they'd only had red and brown so she didn't get any.

I teach a year 10, lovely girl, quite clever academically. My word some of the stuff she comes out with, luckily she laughs at herself. It's so funny, one minute the class trying to explain something really obvious to her (I can't remember any real examples, but along the lines of 'of course vegans can eat chickpeas'), the next minute they're all going 'Jane! What equation do we use for question 3? Can you check my answers?'.

@Tempusfudgeit 'class A cherries'????

I think he thought glacé cherries were Class A cherries.

[quote DappledOliveGroves]@Tempusfudgeit 'class A cherries'????[/quote]
Glace cherries? Although if Class A cherries were a thing, send some my way ...

Where do marshmallows come from? A tree apparently?!!! Comment yesterday from my usually clever younger teen 😬.