Tell Tesco about the funny things your DCs say about where their food comes from and you could win a £200 voucher NOW CLOSED

[AngelieMumsnet]

Tesco have asked us to find out what the most amusing things Mumsnetters' DCs have said about their food.

Here’s what Tesco say, “Studies show that almost a third of primary school pupils believe that cheese comes from plants. Our Farm to Fork initiative is trying to help children to understand where their food comes from. Farm to Fork Trail Guides are dispelling all sorts of food myths for the children visiting our stores, but we’d love to hear what your DCs say at home”

So, what crackers have your kids come up with around the table? Perhaps they have their own creative theories on where their food comes from? Or do they have some particularly interesting names for their food?

Whatever it is, we’d love to hear it!

Everyone who adds their thoughts to the thread will be entered into a prize draw to win a £200 Tesco voucher.

Please note that any comments posted on this thread may be used by Tesco in further marketing material (anonymously, of course).

Thanks and good luck,

MNHQ

WHEN REALLY LITTLE there was no difference between meat,so prok chicken and beef and lamba ll came from all the animals.but maybe this comes from being so little.becsue it was quickly learnt.
a hilarious things was assuming that all foods like meat must come from animals.so chocolate bread etc we were asked what animal they are made from!!

Is gammon fish, like salmon Mum?

My favourite Tesco story though is going into Tesco, Ruthin, on a mission to get the DC trying a bit more variety in fish. We chatted with the very patient fish monger who talked the boys (then about 5 and 7) through the fish options and how you could get it put in a ready to cook bag with free flavoured butter. DS1 unfortunately wasn't convinced by the fish but said I'll just have the free butter and cooking bag, thank you. He's Autistic and interpreted things that way, no rude intention. Pour fishmonger didn't quite know what to do, i hurriedly explained it was a free with purchase not free without option - took some months years for DS to get his head around free with purchase vs free to take.

My DS told me that parsnips are just white carrots that haven't been burnt by the sun, he has also called spaghetti hoops - hula hoops, so many times I now find myself calling them hula hoops too!

We grow some fruit and veg in our garden and my daughter seems to have the belief that I can instantly magic up any fruit she desires from the garden at any time of year, and if I don't go and pick fresh strawberries in December I'm just being mean.

DD aged 3 "but if people eat pigs and cows, that will make the farmer sad!" Awww. She has also said "but the fish don't want to be eaten" :-(

When DS was a lot smaller, I was reading The Hungry Caterpillar to him for the billionth time and just to take a pause in the middle I said to DS "I wonder where the caterpillar gets all this food from?" Without any hesitation he said "The Co-op"!

DD loves chicken and salmon but flatly refuses to believe that chicken comes from chickens. She thinks that chicken comes from land-salmons!

When dd was about 5, she viewed a piece root ginger suspiciously on the conveyor belt, and said (in a VERY loud voice)
"But mummy, why are you buying a poo?"

When ds1 was about 3, we were having a barbecue in the garden. He picked his burger up, waved it loftily in the direction of the cows over the fence and said:

"Hey cows! I'm eating your cousin!"

DS1 says sausages and bacon come from pigs but I don't think he's grasped pigs ARE bacon - he says it in the same way he says milk comes from cows, eggs come from chicken. He also doesn't believe me that people eat crab, lobster and snails.

"How do they get the cowpol (calpol) out of the cows?"

DD 5 is still convinced that fish have fingers:(

my 12 year old daughter was doing home economics and required some Kidney beans, she asked me where they came from, so I said where do you think they come from and she replied RABBITS

My little one claimed being afraid of eating broccoli in case it grows into a tree in her tummy once swallowing

I heard one of my friend's kids saying they thought spaghetti grew in the ground. Like, you could plant it and it would grow into a tree or something. Personally I'd quite like to see a spaghetti tree, could be quite funny. :-)

My little boy was not so keen on eating bolognese sauce 'because it has 'mints' in it and he doesn't like mint flavour'. He'd overheard 'minced beef' and turned it in to 'mints beef'!

My two year old will state firmly that he will not eat eggs because "the piggies must miss their eggs mummy and I think we should give them back"

Apparently beef comes from a cows bottom!

My daughter came home from school saying soy milk came from cows.

Last Friday ds (he's 2) told literally everyone we came across that eggs come ftom chicken's bums.

He told the bus driver, passengers, the lady in the post office, the man who came to read the gas meter and the nurse doing his nasal flu spray.

He hadn't asked about it before and hasn't mentioned it since!

My son has always been clued up on where food comes from. The only thing he has got confused is Vegetarian. He thought that it encompassed anything that you cannot eat, so when he found out my sisters fiance could not eat cheese, he declared that Richard was vegetarian to cheese

my child says we shouldn't drink milk, eat butter or cheese as we will starve the baby calf's!!!!!!!!!!

My son thinks that Hot Dogs come from a dog you can eat its not a pet

The only funny thing I can remember is that when telling my son that he had been in my tummy before he was born, he said "you ate me?"