Are they organic, I only like the organic fish fingers?

[nevercackle]

DS's friend round for tea a while back.

Me ,"Do you like fishfingers?"
"Are they organic, I only like the organic fish fingers?"
Me, "Sure!" Before popping my non organic fish fingers in the oven.

He ate them up just fine.

Anyway, it made me chuckle at the time but it's obviously bothered me a bit that I lied, and didn't tell his mum, as it pops into my mind from time to time. Is there any reason why a child would HAVE to have organic fish fingers?

They are like sponges and will repeat whatever their parents tell them (potential for mischief here).

I've just remembered that ds2's teacher once told us he'd told her he only really likes smoked salmon sandwiches! kids are such arses!

thankfully it was a phase and we've managed to wean him onto lidl ham now.

The only ones my son eats are smoked salmon and philadelphia or ham and cheese. He used to go into McDonald's and threaten them with the Sale of Goods Act if they put any veg on his burger He's stopped this now, thank God.

When he was about 4 my nephew requested that when i buy him his olives he must have Kalamata ones as the others are vile! I honestly didn't see an olive till I was about 20 outs herself as cheap and common

TunaPastaBakeKid is the kid who, on first visit to our house, inspected the monthly menu planner pinned to my fridge door and asked loudly whether my family 'didn't find it tedious that they were provided with TPB every week for a month.....'. No, I explained, it is a favourite of ours so we eat it weekly. TPBK was most sceptical and hoped HE was not having it for tea, whilst continuing to look at planner and tut about other things .

We have TBP, when he comes round, most often (as he has been a wee snit about many many other things....). He doesn't dislike TBP I should add, or I wouldn't give it to him, but he is pretty hard to take in anything other than very small quantities, tbh, and I like to 'feed' his notion that I am 'tedious' in my menus...

I agree that cheap nuggets and fishfingers are pretty nasty.
My ds doesn't like processed foods much and dd wont eat cheap sausages as they are used to the higher meat quantity type at home.
BUT I hope they wouldn't come out with such gems at other people's houses.
I have taught them to eat what they can manage, and politely leave the rest saying they aren't very hungry. Oh, and to THANK whoever has provided the food too.

It's always the kids who are "rationed", so to speak, who have absolutely no control when they're finally let off the leash.
I've seen plenty of mums snootily removing the haribo from their child's party bag; when the same child has had his head in the sweet stuff for the entire bloody party like a pig at a trough...
Who's kidding who?

Yup, I agree. Mind you, I don't ration here but ds will happily eat a whole box of jaffa cakes/large bag of chocolate etc in 20 minutes

TPBK sounds awful. We have one who complains about the size of our house.

It seems having a big house has a bearing on the ability to be polite. perhaps their is less need to be polite if you have the space to just ignore people.

LadySybil - your DS can make a box of jaffa cakes last 20mins, I find that very restrained :o

Ds2 has a little friend who inspected our utility room and pronounced it 'quite scruffy'. She also apparently only likes French orange juice. Her mum is lovely and would be totally mortified if I mentioned this do l just nod, smile and give her water.

Ha! never TPBK did also comment that our house was 'messy' (it is ).
And then enquired 'could we not afford a cleaner, like his house had'.
No, said I. 'how awful' he mused....
I found myself agreeing!

We have too had a 'kalamata olive' girl.
Her mum is lovely and a bit of a foodie.
She is a very fussy eater.
First time for tea I had the usual sausages / pasta pesto / goujons type selection and she declined everything and asked for 'choritzo fried with balsamic vinegar please - it's what I have at home'.
She was 7... but
She was at least polite about it.

reality will bite these children in the arse one day. I grew up in a big house with a cleaner and a gardener. my favourite food was lemon sole FFS!

now living in social housing, with no garden and no staff (if you don't count dh).

its of some comfort that my kids' favourite food is eggs.

wtf is a kalamata olive?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamata_olive

DC2, aged about 3, once said loudly at a party 'Oh, this is white bread . White bread isn't very healthy. I eat brown bread'.

Luckily party mum just laughed it off and saved me from dying of embarrassment.

thing is, nevercackle there is nothing wrong with you growing up in a big house with lemon sole, or me in a small house with chicken nuggets, but it IS good for kids to mix a bit so they see that 'all families are different' as otherwise rich kids can seem pompous and poor kids can seem ignorant/stupid, when, really, they are just kids.

TunaPastaBake's mum and dad need to sit and go through some basic manners though, as TPBKid is no longer invited to a number of other friends houses.

Kids spout what they hear from their parents imo.
I knew a seemingly really nice woman, never heard her bitch or gossip.
She had two really vile daughters though, which was a puzzle.
Until I overheard her one day, when she thought no one was listening, and, oh boy, did I suddenly see exactly why her dd's were the way they were...

Sorry, veered waaaaaaaaaaaaay off your original Qu re organic fish fingers!

outraged - that's just a toddler being honest though??? Not to be embarrassed about.

My ds had a habit of going up to smokers in the street and telling them it was horrible and they would 'die of cancer' (I had said it was unhealthy and could cause cancer). He has recently stopped this thank goodness, as he is now 10 and what is cute/forgivable from a 3 year old is not so from a 10 year old (poss ASD).

I had a visiting kid who, when I made ravioli a bit different from the way his mum makes it, it asked me solicitously if it was because I couldn't afford the [redacted] that she used in hers.

He's a good kid, just was a bit uncensored in his opinions when small.

I once had a kid come round who looked at one of my book shelves, shook his head sadly and tutted, "oh dear mummy, look at all those dvds.."

I wouldn't have minded but they were books. BOOKS!

He wasn't invited back. He was sent a dvd for his birthday though. A disney one at that.

nevercackle - this: "It seems having a big house has a bearing on the ability to be polite. perhaps their is less need to be polite if you have the space to just ignore people." Made me spit tea all over my keyboard! :D

Although, at a recent birthday party my DS did fish the smarties out of his party bag and hand them back to the birthday boy's mother, with a (bit too loud) explanation that he didn't eat smarties because nestle are evil

I am so glad mine are a bit older now, it seems to get better.

Ds1 had a friend in Primary that always had every new toy/game/DVD the day it came out. He came round here and told me DS's Power Rangers were 'out of date' and there wasn't much to play with round here.

I'm not sure there is such a thing as organic fish fingers. I have just quickly searched ocado and couldn't see them.

I wouldn't worry in the slightest. Unless the child has a food allergy, they were rather rude.

Fuzzymum sorry bout that.

and for the use of the wrong 'there'