Banning these two words.

[deste]

Is it only me or does anyone else get irritated when people mention "Fruit Shoots" as if they will get MN browny points.

Hahaha! YANBU

grapes and greggs
there's another two.

whats the grape issue?

brownie points surely?

YABU

mooncup and lentils

{smile}

oops

sorry, I can't find my bat link

Froot shoots, surely?

whats with grapes?

whats the craic with the bat??

what is soo wrong with fruit shoots???seriously I give little one sugar free ones.. are they really that bad?

lol at sugar free drinks

sorry, you will have to explain this whole thread!

I'm lost! (quite new around here though so maybe I'm missing something!)

Grapes came from a big thread about the horror of feeding children grapes to keep them quiet in the shopping trolley (before paying)

Well, It is stealing you know - not to mention bribing your children

please find the bat YouLuka, I haven't seen it in ages!

frasersmummy some people think that sugar free (i.e. usually drinks with artificial sweeteners) are not very good nutritionally for children. (understatement).

fruit shoots fall into this category.

I dont mind if you do or do not give F..... Sh..... to your children. It just irritates me when people use them as a way of being accepted!!!! does that make sense? Can we please ban the use of the words.

aahh.... thank you for that explanation

Do you mean...

I was in the post office today and I dropped my purse, ds touched the display whilst I was scrubbing around for pennies but, instead of helping me, the people in the queue looked it me as if I was force feeding a baby FROOT SHOOT

And posts to that effect..

sorry deste didnt mean to get away from your question.. just seen it so oftenI wondered what was wrong with them...

yes I agree with you

For those unsure, you could possibly have a thread on childrens diet and sure as death someone will throw in "lets just give them f...... s......s".Ahhhhhh.

I hear what you're saying, but after ds1 developed lots of autistic like symptoms last year, some of which magically disappeared the day after after we took sugar free squash (yes, including the f s') out of his diet, I will gladly get involved in any thread which slates them in order to spare anyone else the genuine and immense worry they caused me. It's not to fit in on MN, I don't give a flying toss about that but I think people should actually be aware of the effects which aspartame can actually have!

So YABU on that basis, sorry!

Kettlechip - We have the opposite issue, DS is showing signs of hypoglycaemia (I and my dad have it too)so we're not to give him fruit juice-based drinks and give him F* S**t H20s as a special treat (for long journeys etc) to maintain his sugar levels on an even keel.

I believe this should sum up this thread.