Food is like gas
March 28, 2007 – 5:33 amI love having dinner as a family. It’s such a great way to come together, reconnect, and enjoy pleasant and frequently enlightening conversation… well, at least for the 5% of the time when we’re not sucked into the inevitable eat-your-dinner! / no-I-don’t-want-to-eat-my-dinner / you-have-to-eat-it / no-I-won’t… battle of wills.
Last night our vegetable dish of choice was frizzled cabbage. So naturally, our conversation centered around the cabbage.
“Did you know that cabbage gives you gas?” Jay asked me.
CJ’s eyes lit up. “Food is like gas.” he announced.
Really. This should be interesting. “Is it?”
“Food is like gas because… when we eat it, it fills up our bodies and makes us grow.” CJ’s eyes are as big as cabbages and he is oh-so-very serious.
“Cars drink gas… only we don’t drink gas, we eat food.”
I’m glad he’s been learning SOMETHING at preschool! Oh, and by the way, that thing that Jay said about cabbage? It’s true.
Can’t get enough frizzled cabbage? Never fear…I wrote an entire post on the topic at my P-I blog! (careful of the gas, though)
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By Peter Hill on Mar 28, 2007 | Reply
If you want to have some science fun with CJ, buy a head of purple cabbage and boil it in you big pasta pot for about, I don’t know, 20 minutes.. The water will turn a lovely shade of purple… now let it cool down (you can take the cabbage out and dispose). You know have a great pH indicator.
If you put some lemon juice into it, it will turn red. If you put some baking soda in, it will turn green. You can have some fun thinking of things that are sour like a lemon and see that they all turn the juice red.
For more fun, you can take some cream of tarter and some baking soda and use the tarter to turn it red then the baking soda to turn it green (which is how baking powder works). Or some cream and cream of tarter, and see how one neutralizes the pH of the other and that is why when you make a meringue, you add the tarter..
I used to do kitchen science demonstrations in Pittsburgh, the kids loved them.
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By Jennifer on Mar 28, 2007 | Reply
At least he’s learning something!!! Even if it is about gas!
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By Undercover Angel on Mar 28, 2007 | Reply
That’s actually a good comparison… I want to try the science fun experiment that peter hill mentioned in his comment… That looks like a lot of fun!
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By polliwog on Mar 28, 2007 | Reply
I loved this post Jenny. I don’t think I told you that I have a 2 year old son. I can relate to a lot of what you write except that I started having kids (I have 6, the oldest is nearly 16) so early I never had a career (I want one now - let me outta here! LOL).
I had never heard of frizzled cabbage!
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By Jenny on Mar 29, 2007 | Reply
I want to try the cabbage thing too. At minimum, it sounds like a good way to dye ourselves purple!
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By www.nolanotes.com on Mar 29, 2007 | Reply
Very analytical mind, your CJ has. Add that to his negotiating skills, and you’ve really got something!
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By Jen on Mar 29, 2007 | Reply
Don’t you just love how a kid’s mind works?
Now I wonder how many people who’ve read your blog and comments are going to buy purple cabbage!
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By The Queen of Shake-Shake on Mar 29, 2007 | Reply
Did you also know people pass it on average 10 times a day? And that it you could pipeline the gas of every person on earth, in just one day you’d have enough gas to fill 13 blimps? Interesting!
I love fart blogs!
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