Scrambled snake

[CountAdhemar]

Due to certain influential children's literature, we have started referring to scrambled eggs as 'scrambled snake' when feeding ourselves and our 1yo DD. It's amazing what you find funny on 4 hours' sleep.

Can anyone advise if they have done the same and have encountered any negative consequences down the line, including, for example (but not limited to):

• a fear of snakes
• true belief that they have been eating snake all this time
• distrust of Axel Scheffler
• investigations from child services or whoever
• a fear of eggs
• anything else?

Many thanks in advance.

Count Adhemar

🤣🤣🤣 brilliant, I really love JD but whyyyyy are there so many words on every page? So many words. And the children know if you try to miss a few pages. Sometimes I pretend I'm live on the bbc reading it as a way to make it more interesting

My ds calls it 'scrangle egg'

It was bobbly egg in our house.

We have the gruffalo cookbook so I often get requests for scrambled snake (basically add chopped herbs to scrambled egg).

It'll be fine till they go to school/nursery and say it and freak the other kids out 🤣

I still have 2/3 kids referring to the golden arches as "Old McDonald's". Which makes it sound much more wholesome, to be fair.

I read The Gruffalo in school assembly once (Book Week). I think every single child knew it off by heart and joined in. It was brilliant!

• true belief that they have been eating snake all this time

Do you ever have toad in the hole? Hot dogs? I expect they'll cope with scrambled snake.

My ds was year one or year two at school and we created recipes for the gruffalo characters and our scrambled snake was scrambled egg with chopped slices of ham. Things you do for homework. I can report he’s now 14 has not been harmed in anyway and makes a very good scrambled egg all be it without the ham because he doesn’t like it.

We call really rich chocolate cake (I mean really rich and gooey, not bog-standard chocolate sponge) is called Bruce Bogtrotter Cake in our house. It's difficult for pre-schoolers to say! They would come out with things like "Boob ache", and "Brew bake", and best of all "Boob Cake".

We call dumplings planets from a time when then-preschooler DS was going through a space phase. Stew and planets is a winter favourite!

Only 5 pages along, I assume? Roasted fox, owl ice cream, scrambled snake, mouse on a slice of bread and who could forget gruffalo crumble?

I think this is the aim

Neither of these (yet) but I agree it poses similar problems. This is why I need to write the 'scrambled snake' playbook now...

Don’t you know there is no such thing as thing as a gruffalo .

I was a childminder - the kids would make me food . I often requested roasted fox , owl ice cream ..

Thank you! The only one to answer my question! (although many of the other posts are excellent)

'bog-standard' I see what you did there.

Matilda is excellent literature.

See I find that rhyming books are so much easier and more pleasurable to read than others, regardless of length, so I love JD books for that reason.