♥ HAM-SARDINES AND BROWNIES ♥

Every once in a while, I come across funny memories from my old journals.  Throwback Thursday seems like a good excuse to post those old memories here.  This one comes from when my son was 5 1/2.

Dear Child: Mommy, why don't you like brownies that much?

Me: I don't know. I just don't.

Dear Child: But, why? I just need to know: why?

Me: It's just a matter of taste. Why don't you like sardines?

Dear Child: Because the inside is meat.

Me: You like salami. Salami is meat.

Dear Child: I just don't like ham.

Me: Huh?

Dear Child: I don't like ham and the inside of sardines is made of ham.

Me: Um... Sardines are made of sardines and ham is made of pigs. Sardines are fish.

Dear Child: Well, I just don't like the taste of the insides of the sardine, and the looks of the outside, and the gross water of it, okay?

Me: Okay. That makes sense.

Dear child: So why don't you like brownies?

Me: They're too sugary tasting.

Dear child: Okay.

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The moral of this story is: never answer a question with another question when you're talking to a kid.