Have your children had some funny MOOsings about the origin of their food? Share with Cadbury for chance to win a £300 voucher NOW CLOSED

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Teaching your children about where their food comes from, and how it makes it from there to the table every day can be a great way to make dinner time more exciting. But Cadbury want to hear about the times your DC have been left to figure things out for themselves, and perhaps drawn some … interesting conclusions.

Whether they’ve developed an elaborate story about where milk comes from, or the look of shock and awe when they realise that their porridge oats were once growing in a field has been priceless, the everyday facts we take for granted can come as quite a shock when you’re a little one. So, if your child has come up with an inventive story behind why bananas are wearing jackets, or decided that fish fingers must have at some point been part of fish hands, share their ideas on the thread below.

Everyone who shares one of their child’s moosings by commenting on this thread will be entered into a prize draw where one lucky MNer will win a £300 Love2Shop voucher

Thanks and good luck!

MNHQ

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I asked my youngest son, what came first the chicken or the egg, he got very confused and said the chicken so I said were did the chicken come from he was there for a while pondering over this.

My daughter was learning about animals at school and she told me about the Tiger-cows. They have sharp teeth and live on top of castles. She then added they flew to Edinburgh on gliders to buy donuts and cupcakes as that is what they eat. They also migrate on the 1st of November every year.

We are vegetarian and also drink dairy free at home but at school she has cows milk. She has been telling everyone she is a carnivore as she drinks cows milk. There is no reasoning with her.

We were eating lunch and my son (her uncle) asked my 5 year old granddaughter 'What noise does a chicken make?' and her reply was 'It doesn't make a noise, it's food!'

talking about pineapples, I explained that they actually came from the ground and didnt grow on trees... He went onto say he thought they were hedgehogs that had died and turned into fruit because it isn't normal for fruit to spiky and defensive !

DS3 loved tinned sweetcorn when he was little, but always called them "little TVs", as they were (roughly) the same shape as the telly! It was years before he worked out they were the same thing as corn on the cob, which he refused to try for years, until we finally managed to persuade him they were the same - he was amazed!

My son once said to me 'Mummy are sausage dogs made of sausage? cos animals are made of meat!'

My now 7 year old son was absolutely gobsmacked that puppies don't come from eggs!! He asked if our dog Tiny could "Lay a puppy"

Just the other day my son said "Mummy did you know in the olden days kit kats had 4 fingers" He was amazed when i bought him a 4 fingered one lmao

We visited a farm in half term and were talking about where our food comes from - now my daughter is so matter of fact about it. She just tells everyone "Chickens die, then we eat them!"

My son thought sausages grew on trees and used to beg me to go and see a sausage tree. I couldn't convince him it was otherwise.

Seeing bananas growing on trees was quite an eye opener on holidays! Not sure where they thought they came from

we've had the conversations about chicken nuggets being 'not like the actual chickens on farms' but the ones you eat instead. And ditto with fish fingers!

DS is 3 and has no concerns about eating animals. Recently while paddling in a river, he was trying to catch the fish with his hands...'here fishy fishy, I want to eat you....' I'm not sure what he would have done if he had actually caught one.

My daughter was 4 when she realised that the chicken that other people ate (we're vegetarian) was the same as alive chickens. She then went round telling everyone "Emily eats dead birds!" as it was her friend Emily who had prompted this realisation.

We went to Turkey on holiday. On the first day the little one looked a little perplexed. I asked what she was thinking and she said 'well, i haven't seen any turkeys yet, i thought they all lived here?'

On another day, we were in the town and she saw some men drumming and she began giggling. I asked what she was laughing at and she said 'look - there's Turkey drummers but not like the ones we have for tea'.

When my son was in nursery school, he was learning that milk came from cows.

On the way home he told me -

"Do you know milk comes from cows? But only from the white bits. The black bits must make very dark chocolate"

In horror I was imagining lots of black and white cows being 'squeezed' for their white milk and chocolate

My 7 yr old was musing about what he'd do if he was in charge of the world. He'd make all animal cruelty illegal...conversation turned to farming and how that might mean no more roast chicken, sausages or bacon sandwiches.... "mmm, we could still have bacon though!"', "not really", I replied - "bacon comes from pigs"... lightbulb moment: "yeah, but we could just shave some bacon off their behinds!"

My DCs would not go near Toad in the Hole for years because they were convinced it had toads in it!

my niece thought mice made cheese xx

It too a long time to convince my then 3 year old granddaughter that fish fingers actually contained fish. Because, she 'knew' that they couldn't be made of fish as fish don't have fingers.

Our little girl is vegetarian and loves animals, I don't usually call her food 'chicken nuggets' etc when she has quorn nuggets etc, I'll just say nuggests, veggie balls etc.
One day I said 'eat your chicken nugget' and she said 'cluck chicken, no mommy! i like chickens' :D that's my girl

When my eldest daughter was 5 she once had a full blown temper tantrum because she didn't want sweet corn, she wanted savoury corn??!!

My DS thought milk comes from mummies lol

my youngest two thought you could get a switch on a cow to change the flavour.

One of mine couldn't be convinced that a small orange chilli wasn't a baby carrot so she tried biting one with predictable consequences!