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

The most hilarious thing I have heard is when we saw some square sausage meat for sale in Iceland and my little one looked really confused. I was told that sausages came from inside animals (already prepared and in the skin) and that they were like intestines. I was then asked how on earth the sausages could come out flat and square!

My 8 year old son didn't know that chips were mad from potatoes. He saw his Nanna put some potatoes in her shopping trolley and asked what she was making for tea. When she said chips he said "you've bought potatoes not chips" He really had no idea!

Had a right giggle reading through these comments!!

L (4) knows where most food comes from. He's so inquisitive and has asked about everything as soon as he could talk!
W (2) milky is from cows, everything, and i mean everything else, comes from a chicken haha

my son once asked his nanna for chicken for breakfast she looked at me with a baffled face but i was the same as he always got different cereal at home so i said show us and he pointed to my mams cornflake box and repeated chicken we burst out laughing at his logic

My niece (4) had a bit of confusion with bacon/baking. She thought "baking" was made in a similar fashion to a cake and was incredulous one day when she saw me peel a piece of bacon out of the packet! She must've thought her mum was quite the delia whipping up some batter from scratch every time she produced a "baking butty".

My DS was horrified when I said I was going to buy a cheesecake, I think he thought I was literally going to buy two slabs of cheese with a buttercream filling, had to explain its slightly more complex than that!!

She just thinks we buy it!

My little one thinks that Broccoli are just miniature trees that re put on her plate! She used to be terrified that a tree would start growing in her stomach! She also thinks that milk just comes in cartons and can't possibly come from a cow as they wouldn't be able to get it out!

Lettuce is only for boys apparently

My lad, I think understands where most of his food comes from but I don't think he's really made the connection that sausages (his favourite) are really from Pigs that we see at the farm. Will be an interesting conversation when that sinks in !.

Still cant get their heads around the fact that fishfingers come from fish in the sea, fish with eyes!!

They associate different foods from different peoples houses and where they shop. They love tasting food and especially love nana's 'pasta and sauce' and they make sure she has done her shopping ready from Tescos to do their food. Mum is no good and doesn't use the right stuff.

Whenever we have fish my daughter always asks is it fish from the sea? ( the fish with eyes & bones) or real fish from tesco?! ......& it can't be the fish from the sea or she won't eat it!!!!!

my little boy was upset cause we was eating horseradish cause he thinks its made out of horses. but wont believe us

when my son was around two,he was asked did he know where milk come from. He answered that milk comes from mummy.Grandparents told him that no, milk comes from cows. At that moment my son looked at me with so serious expression, smiled and told me: Mummy you are a cow! :)))
(I was still breastfeeding him :)

Olivia loves going to a local farm to see all the goats, lambs & piglets. I'm a vegetarian but I never force my beliefs on others

My daughter thinks that every kind of meat we eat is chicken!!

When DS1 was little we moved to a village with a traditional butchers shop. On our first visit we were in the queue and he looked around with a proper ‘chewing a wasp’ face on him and declared “Mummy, I don’t like it in here, it smells like death!” Much giggling from the other customers but the butcher wasn’t too pleased!

We were going through questions such as where does milk come from - cows said DD, where do eggs come from - hens said DD, where does beef come from - cows said DD, where does pork come from - Cheerbrooks said DD. (this is our local farm shop which does do a very good joint or two!)
made us chuckle for ages.

My older DD asked me if ham came from Ham Hill - a landmark in Somerset - she was disappointed to find out it didn't.

Must do some more work on what pigs are for I feel.....!

our 4yr calls broccoli….trees, cauliflower…. snow trees and my favourite… she can't say gravy so she says groovy! : )

My five year old daughter commented that Beef is for carnivores and its a cow, we said wow how do you know that. she said well i watch the dinosaurs they told me.

Our son has got one thing completely wrong but his reasoning behind it is almost convincing enough to be right. Occasionally if we are shopping we will have lunch in McDonalds, however he calls it Hotdonald's and when you try and correct him he says no its Hotdonalds because they serve hot food silly. Completely wrong but he makes it sound right.

I was recently playing with my 3 year old daughter and asked 'what do you want for dinner?'

we were messing around asking 'would you like smelly socks?' and she would shout 'no that disgusting mum'

eventually I asked seriously, would you like fish, she said 'muuuuuum thats an animal I would NEVER eat an animal'

so I said oh, ok, what would you like then?

to which she replied 'burgers!'

oh dear we seem to have overlooked some important information here!

Cucumbers grow under the sea with the seaweed

When staying on a farm on holiday, my daughter was very interested in the (non-dairy) cows in the next field.

Even though she does know what beef is, on returning from a day trip to an empty field, she did hopefully suggest that perhaps they had just taken them to be washed...