I was bad tonight

[mzteris]

At rehearsal tonight, they use marshmallows for the "eggs" in a particular scene. The kids all kept grabbing all the marshmallows and eating them. My kids weren't, of course.

Some of the other kids were giving my kids a hard time about why they wouldn't eat them. I told a couple - "hey - next time you're on the internet - why don't you look up what gelatin is actually made from . . . "

"Gelatin?"

"Uh-huh - Marshmallows are made of gelatin - like jello is and a lot of other things. You should look it up. Really. You might be surprised to find out what you're actually eating."


Was that really really bad of me????

[BrklynLiberal]

1. A little dose of truth is good every now and then.

[flvegan]

2. You're an educater, not a divider

That's how I see it.

[LeftyMom]

3. No, that wasn't bad

You didn't go for shock value and you didn't stretch the truth. You just suggested they look it up, which wasn't a bad thing. We live in a culture where people don't pay nearly enough attention to what they eat, encouraging kids to pay more attention to what's in thier food can't be a bad thing.

Anyhow, if you had said something to discourage them from eating flesh or cow's milk the other parents might get pissy about it, but I doubt anybody'd be terribly upset if thier kid decided not to eat marshmallows anymore.

[NMMNG]

4. You weren't bad

After all, you only said what you did after the other kids gave your kids a hard time for not eating the marshmallows. I'm sure you wouldn't have said a thing if they hadn't been snotty to begin with. :shrug:

[CrispyQ]

5. That wasn't bad at all.

People need to learn what's in their food, kids included. Maybe a few will actually look it up & then tell their parents what it is. My experience is most people are appalled when they discover what gelatin is, although I don't understand why it is more replusive to them than animal flesh.