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Skriven 2006-07-11 10:31:14 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
   Kommentar till text 2054 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: kids and fast food
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*** Quoting Ruth Haffly from a message to JIM WELLER ***


 JW> I think most kids will go for a real meal 3 times out of 4 if they are

RH> But most of the time their choice seems to be fast food--or that's wha
RH> their parents take them to because it's cheap & nobody cares how much
RH> noise there is & running around is done by kids hyped up from the star
RH> converted to sugar.

Probably true in some places.  Afterall, I will take Charlotte tot he
'Origional Sasebo Burger' joint plenty often.  It also happens to be the
nearest food place to where we live.  Funny thing is the french fries arent
really popular there.  Folks get other things, even the kids.

 JW> young kids. (Alex will eat anything, anywhere with great gusto.)

RH> Pack mentality there for Neekha enjoying McD's with her peers.  Alex i
RH> at the age where food is fun, the messier the better. (G)

As true here as there, but with a twist.  Noodle houses are the popular thing
for the kids.  Matched with 'the wierdest side dish' they can find (imagine
indulgent mama-san at side who finding 'wierd is good' makes normal stuff look
really wierd just for them strange USA kids).  Saw one with small fishes
wearing bow ties made of green veggie (seaweed probably).  Saw another that
was a green bell pepper with it's top cut off, soba noodles inside, and a
little face scrunched up in horror (face made of various food things, 'eat my
brains' is what the kids call that one).

It's not so strange to see a land where 'eye appeal' is a good bit of the
preparation of foods anyways, to have fun making them kid-friendly.  A pretty
easy leap in fact. Elise and i get dragged out now and again to chaparone a
flock who want to hit up one of these 'noodle places' so we see it often
enough and get ideas from it.  They are often gory in a funny way like 'man
killed by mushroom' (little piece of sashimi cut manshape, pierced by a
mushroom with a dribble of red-sauce leading down his leg from that spot). 
You get the idea!

The kids get the gory and the adults get cute ones mostly <g>.

                                       xxcarol

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