Pepper Pig sandwich...

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I was at an event yesterday where they were serving bacon rolls. I head a woman say to her pre school aged DD "I'm just getting your Pepper Pig sandwich".

Now, I'm all for children knowing where their food comes from but isn't that a bit extreme....?

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I can definitely see the funny side.

How is it extreme? She’s not even a real pig!

My three year old sings ‘peppa pig tripped on a wire and fell in to a fire. BACON STRIPS’ while she’s eating a bacon roll.

Sorry but also had a 😆 at that!

I find that quite funny!

When my DS was little he had a whole Peppa family set and he had them all having a picnic together:
Me: What are they eating?
Him: sandwiches
Me: what kind?
Him: ham

Errrr......

Whatever gets people thinking about where their food comes from.

When ds was small he was into "Big Barn Farm". When we did the food shop, I'd say to him "what meat shall we get today?" and he'd reply "I think I'd like Digger" (or Petal/Gobo/Dash) and I'd say "oh yes, Digger meat it is then" and get whatever I was planning on getting anyway.
He wasn't phased by it, although he'd never been a big meat eater.

I also remember dd1 aged about 3 looking at the fish counter. "Mummy, did those fish have to die?" Me, thinking that I was about to have tears. "yes, dear."
"Oh. Do they hit them on their heads or poke them with a big fish...." she still eats fish.

Children take it much more calmly than you think. Ds also used to find "I don't eat people" by Flanders and Swan quite funny, and say solemnly to people. "But people have always eaten people - what else is there to eat? if the gods had meant us not to eat people, he wouldn't have made us of meat." He's never showed any inclination for cannibalism either.

That’s the sort of thing my DH would say to our kids.

Highly in favour of this. We’ve spent the Easter holidays in Yorkshire, surrounded by fields with hundreds of lambs. DS(5) has made the connection between lambs in the field and lamb on the plate, which my former farmhand dad has been explaining in explicit detail to his grandson, who is fascinated.

That went well then.

For what it's worth that's how we brought up our kids as well.

I mean.. I might’ve or might’ve not told DD her fish fingers were Nemo. She still ate them.

I think it’s fair and kids should know where meat and fish come from.

It's weirder to lie to them about it (although Peppa Pig isn't a real pig anyway....).

This obviously isn't true as any parent would know it's peppa not pepper.

Nothing wrong with what she said. Quite funny actually! Rather have kids that grow up knowing that meat came from animals and also being able to see the funny side of things instead of super sensitive snowflakes.

My three year old sings the same! 🤣

There was a hog roast at the Peppa pig themed village fete I went to once, some years ago. Was a bit traumatic for some!

In the supermarket with my DD when she was about 4yo .

"Mummy is that where they shoot the chicken ? The bullet holes?"
"No that's where the feathers came out ....they don't shoot chickens"
"Oh.....so how do they kill them"
"Errrrrm they knock them on the head"
"Oh" .... then she goes off on another tangent. No more chickens, I think .

Later at the check out ( when I am trapped) I could see the cashier thinking ' yes explain that'

"So someone kills them"
"Yes"
""That's someone's job ? Killing chickens?
"Yes"

And she was satisfied with this answer

TBF to DD she did like asking questions and as DH and I are vegetarian but brought up the DC as non vegetarian , she did ask a lot of questions
DD is vegetarian since 14yo

DD2, then aged about 4, tucking into a holiday cooked breakfast, paused to look at her bacon filled fork. “Where’s does bacon come from?” I answered honestly that we get bacon from pigs, thinking this is it, she’s going to get upset, but no, “Oh, not very fair on the pig, is it?” Happily carried on eating!

Age 3 or 4, DD was asked to judge the prettiest pig competition at our local show. The judge asked her if she liked pigs, she said "Yes, they taste really nice".

DD2 used to like having Bambi Burgers.

That’s what we’ve called bacon sandwiches in this house for years. The children remain unscathed.

Sometimes as a parent I have to be creative with what things are called to get them to eat them.
My kids won't eat sweet and sour but will tuck into pineapple chicken (the exact same jar of uncle bens)
Monk fish goujons are a non starter but sea chicken is greatfully received.
Massaman curry is apparently to spicy, peanut butter curry lapped up.