Chicken (light hearted)

[SpecialHandsMummy]

Yesterday was the first time in ages that we had roast chicken for dinner. Well, this started an array of questions. AIBU to ask you how you answer questions like "do you think the chicken will be sad if you're cutting up his leg?" and "is there a real chicken in there?" And "where's the chicken's head?" And "you're not really going to eat the chicken's leg?"

Made me laugh. Needless to say, our dd (3.11) did not want any chicken for dinner!

Tell them to cook next time.

When my dd1 was 4 she asked me how chickens made chicken!! Was a difficult conversation!!

Coincidentally, yesterday, my dd (3.11) said solemnly to me that she loves eating chicken but she would never ever forever eat chickens.

Reminds me of when DD was little, 'Cadoo' (chicken!) was her favourite meat and she used to collect the bones during dinner,wash them and keep them in a box
By the way, Cadoo came from 'cock a doodle doo'

Surely you just explain that we have to kill animals to eat them it's true, and it's the reason we should buy high welfare meat. This is why there are so many adults with massive food issues. And why so many people eat such crap processed food that is so far away from the animal that provided the meat...

We told our lot the truth, the earlier the better IMO. IL's are farmers which helps.
It didn't stop DD1's vegetarian phase (lasted a whole day) but they understood the difference between well looked after animals and battery type farms from an early age.

Totally imagining a small child rattling a box of bones chanting cadoo..... lol

Why did the chicken cross the road?