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

Hot dogs is a tricky one as my DD is adamant it comes from dogs - which was even worse when we had our poor dog put to sleep.

Normally something like, yuck what is that!

My children thought that buffalo wings at a restaurant where from actual buffalo's

My DS1 thought that milk came from cats! I guess he just misheard but I really struggled with adding it to my tea for a while afterwards too. ;)

Not one of my dc but a right corker from my brother - aged 17 ...

Whist watching a cooking type programme where they were cooking venison steaks he asked

"So, what bird does venison come from?"

All with total seriousness

I couldn't answer him for the laughter this only happened two weeks ago too! I'll never let him live it down lol

keeps trying to see the fish's fingers in the pond

Since we went organic, mine think fruit and vegetables grow in a box which magically turns up behind the side gate every Monday morning!

well carrots are apparently my fingers?

my child said about her bacon in a quiet voice so daddy could not hear " this bacon is from a daddy pig because its got lots of fat on it. daddy s are always fatter than mummy s"
Another one is " I hope Im not eating a pigs bum!"

My little one likes to announce very loudly when we're out "that milk comes from mummy's boobies".

Until now, the youngest doesn't know where chicken comes from... He's convinced that it's not an animal, and can't connect the two. I fear he might become a vegetarian soon as he's an animal person. He's 6 now and it's always funny when he comes up with new theories for things.

"i know where cheese comes from.......mice make cheese!"

with 3 children 7,5,2 i have tried to educate them as much as i can about animals and things but the only story i can think of along these lines is sausages.
my eldest (Dylan) was watching cartoon network and johnny test, johnny was having a BBQ where he was having hot dogs but kept referring to them as Weiner's while his dad cooked them.
a day or 2 later Dylan (7) came home from school laughing and giggling whispering to Ellis (5), Ellis then asked was a where a sausage comes from? pig i replied, Ellis where does Weiner come from? pig i replied again. both started giggling hysterically, now i asked what they where laughing about and they replied does that mean the Weiner is the pigs willy?

no i replied and why? because johnny test hurt his Weiner and was holding his willy when he was on the floor.

My daughter turned to me in the supermarket, pointing at the milk aisle, and asked me if that was 'mummys booby milk'. I explained that as much as mummy had a healthy supply for her little brother, I wasnt in fact supplying the whole of the town lol!

making sausage and egg sandwiches for my partner and my, then 5, son asked where eggs came from, i told him a chicken lays them. He just replied 'oh, ok... so which animal lays the sausages'

My DD doesn't talk yet but she must think that the food comes from a magical source under her weaning bowl. She keeps turning it over to make sure it is empty and all the food has definitely gone :)

Perhaps I shouldn't have been quite so accurate when talking about eggs with middle one- In polite company he loudly corrected his little sister who said eggs came from chickens bottoms- "NO! Their fanny!"

" Every LIDL helps! "

DS1(8) after his aunty and I were admiring our super money saving trip to LIDL.

I'm not going to win am I?

From mummy's kitchen of course!

Had an in depth conversation with my 6 and 5 year old about what constitutes fruit and what makes something a vegetable. So they now know a tomato is a fruit as it has seeds, but then my daughter asked if seeds make a fruit, then what are seedless grapes..? um... so now my theory about fruits having seeds has gone out the window.

Thank goodness for Google!

Most of mine now have a good idea where food comes from, but down the years we had to have all the usual conversations about fish not having fingers and how hot dogs are made of pork ("Why aren't they just called hot pigs then mummy?") and we had to break the myth that food doesn't just come from Tesco. We have also had some funny ones like telling them that no spaghetti doesn't grow on trees and there isn't a giant broccoli tree!
My fave was when they learned that bacon came from pigs they horrified Nana by saying "Yum, yum pig's bum!" when she served it up to them!

I was actually surprised recently when I gave my two year old grandson a toy cow and he started squeezing the underneath while saying the word milk. I did not know he actually knew where milk came from.

My son thinks calls scotch eggs, scottish eggs and thinks you can only get them from scotland!

They name their eggs Eggbert!

Number 2 son was most interested in milk production from dairy cows though was not keen on drinking something direct from the cows 'milk willy'

I laughed. Alot.